On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:13:12AM +0530, Emerson Yesupatham wrote: > > Hi Ken, > >> Unfortunately, those only tell use about the distro, not about your > >>machine. > Emerson: In case I need to provide info about my Host PC HW, which command > I should execute? Curious to know. WIll "lspci -v" be sufficient? > > Thanks, > Emerson
Mostly, you will get better answers from google :) There aren't many of us here, and we can probably only offer useful comments if we have the same hardware (or, in BLFS, if you have to install firmware - e.g. for some recent radeon graphics cards, when using KMS, and for some network cards or maybe for wifi adaptors. If google can point you to what you have, it is quicker than asking a question and waiting for replies. lspci -v is probably the main tool. But, you might also want to use lspci -n to get the numeric PCI IDs. e.g. on the i3 I'm using at the moment, -v tells me the following (and a lot more) about the VGA chip: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) but lspci -n shows me a list including 00:02.0 0300: 8086:0102 (rev 09) If I paste that line into google, the first hit is for a problem with intel Sandy Bridge graphics. Yes, I remember this machine has Sandy Bridge, so the example is contrived - but I've had to do something similar for network cards, to find which variant of a driver was the right one. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
