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Hardware-info bios

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[edit] Linux Recommended BIOS settings

  • Disable all shadow RAM
  • Disable Memory Hole
  • Set power management by APM
    • Disable doze, standby, suspend, nap, sleep modes, and disable the hard disk's power-down timer
  • Enable PNP BIOS - may not even matter??

[edit] Getting Hardware Information

Look into the following commands:

  • lspci - lists devices on the PCI bus
  • lshal - lists all devices on the computer (requires hal to be installed) - For more install hal-doc and see

file:///usr/share/doc/hal-doc/spec/hal-spec.html

  • lsusb - lists all USB devices
  • lsmod - Lists installed and running modules (drivers)
  • dmidecode - Revels things like BIOS version. Dumping a computer’s DMI (some say SMBIOS) table contents in a human-readable format. SMBIOS stands for System Management BIOS, while DMI stands for Desktop Management Interface.
  • modinfo returns information and modprobe parameters for modules.

Also, Read up on udev

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