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Hardware General
To find out which hardware is in front of you, you can use the command hwinfo. For an overview about the options, call
hwinfo --help
Hardware Compatibility List (HCL)
- Hardware Compatibility List and Product Reviews (www.linuxquestions.org).
- Hardware4Linux
Hardware configuration
Futuristic Hardware
Linux On Laptops, Notebooks, PDAs and Mobile Phones
- Linux Laptop Wiki (www.linlap.com)
- Linux on Laptops (www.linux-laptop.net)
- Comprehensive guides to running Linux on various laptop models
- TuxMobil: Linux On Laptops, Notebooks, PDAs and Mobile Phones (tuxmobil.org)
Processors
- AMD's processors Athlon, Opteron, AMD64
- Intel's processors 80486, Pentium
- Motorola's processors m68k
- PPC
Hardware devices
Input devices
- Configuring mice (Serial, PS/2, USB)
- Configuring keyboards
- eGalax Touchscreen
- tv cards
- barcode Scanners
Graphics cards
- 3D graphics acceleration
- Installing ATI drivers - Howto on ATI drivers to give you hardware 3d acceleration.
- Installing NVIDIA drivers - Howto on nVidia drivers to give you hardware 3d acceleration.
- Installing intel-82865G drivers - How on the intel-82865G video adapter
- framebuffer device
- Configuring TV out
- Using multiple monitors with XFree86
- Video For Linux
- Tuning monitor output
- Matrox TV-out kernel patches
Sound
Disks/Volumes
Hard drives
- ATA(IDE) - most common disks used today
- SCSI - usually found on servers
- SATA - serial ATA
- IDE Tree Mapping
- RAID
- LVM
- File Systems
Removable medium
Networking
Printers
Scanners
Cameras
Hardware Interfaces
Busses
- PCI
- PCI-X
- PCI-E
- AGP - Accelerated Graphics Port. Interface for display cards.
- Firewire (400 and 800)
- USB - Universal Serial Bus
- IDE bus / ATA and ATAPI - used to connect hard drives
- PCMCIA - laptops addon cards
- IR - Irda (www.irda.org) infrared ports
- ISA
- EISA - turbocharged ISA implementation common in early 1990s PCs
- VESA Local Bus - on most 486 computers and a few Socket 4 Pentiums
Power Management
Tools/Tips
- lspci
- lsusb
- lsscsi
- proc - kernel handles about your system status
- cpuinfo - kernel handle about your CPU type and features
- hwinfo - get system info about your monitor or mouse type etc.
- dmidecode - read out your bios, e.g. computer type or support tag
- lm-sensors - CPU temperature, fan speed etc.
- kinfocenter - list of your hardware, e.g. usb media
- top - load of your hardware, top CPU consuming processes
- ksysguard - comprehensive overview about system load and much more
- xosview - lean overview about system load, network e.a.
- vmstat - system load, swapping etc. over a time frame
- Hotplugging hardware
- Quieting linux
See also
- areas
- Hardware compatibility list by the SUSE community