I'm still new to Linux, and many others are also. Many suffer problems getting *ubuntu to work on their system. A lot of the time the problem is due to unsupported hardware, normally a video card/driver. But settings in your BIOS could also be potential culprits. If you've been in this forum (or others) for any time, you've seen suggestions to post the results of various ls* commands. Did you know that there is a command that:
"...provides a standardized description of a computer's hardware, including characteristics such as BIOS serial number and hardware connectors. dmidecode provides a dump of the DMI data available from the BIOS."
It's dmidecode, and requires that it be run as root:
A wealth of information is revealed! This package should already be installed. If it isn't, it can be marked for installation in Adept Manager.
"...provides a standardized description of a computer's hardware, including characteristics such as BIOS serial number and hardware connectors. dmidecode provides a dump of the DMI data available from the BIOS."
It's dmidecode, and requires that it be run as root:
Code:
sudo dmidecode
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