When posting in Help the New Guy

[Snowhog]

When posting in Help the New Guy, please include the following information:

Version of Kubuntu you are running; CPU type (32- or 64-bit) and manufacturer (Intel, AMD, ?); motherboard manufacturer (if known); desktop or laptop PC; types (IDE, SATA, PATA) and number of internal HDs; keyboard/mouse connection type - USB, PS/2, ? (if your PC is a desktop); video card brand and model (nVidia, G-Force, etc).

This information, along with your question, will help Forum members in assisting you.

[Fredh]

Re: When posting in Help the New Guy

Thank you snowhog.

Could you maybe post some cli commands on how to find out this information?

As i don't know them and most new users may not as well it may be useful.

[dibl]

Re: When posting in Help the New Guy

Short answer:

lspci

will show the pci bus devices, including your video and audio

lsusb

will show the USB bus devices

sudo fdisk -lu

will show hard drives and partitions

cat proc/version

will show your Linux kernel version

Complete answer:

http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html

[Fintan]

Re: When posting in Help the New Guy

Thank you dible

what about motherboard, cpu and maybe bios?

[Rog131]

Re: When posting in Help the New Guy

Hardware

man lshw:

lshw - list hardware

DESCRIPTION
lshw is a small tool to extract detailed information on the hardware
configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration,
firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version and speed, cache
configuration, bus speed, etc. on DMI-capable x86 or IA-64 systems and
on some PowerPC machines (PowerMac G4 is known to work).

Konsole:

sudo lshw

To the text-file:

sudo lshw > Hardware.txt

To the html file:

sudo lshw -html > Hardware.html

man lshal:

lshal - list HAL devices

DESCRIPTION
lshal is a utility for displaying items in the HAL device database. For
more information about both the big picture and specific HAL proper‐
ties, refer to the HAL spec which can be found in /usr/share/doc/hal-
doc/spec/hal-spec.html depending on the distribution.

Konsole:

lshal

With KDE gui:
Package: kde-hal-device-manager, shows the hardware on your computer.
After installation K > System > Device Manager...


Links:
- HOWTO: Read BIOS Information

[Qqmike]

Re: When posting in Help the New Guy

lshw
is very informative.
Thanks

[Fredh]

Re: When posting in Help the New Guy

Thank you all that was great.

Helped solve one or two problems. well at least in part