FC10 - What has replaced /etc/sysconfig/hwconf

Jeff Spaleta jspaleta at gmail.com
Tue Dec 2 19:28:32 UTC 2008


On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
> So I am looking for the /etc/sysconfig/hwconf file that lists all the
> installed hardware, particularly things like the video card. There does not
> seem to be any hwconf file anywhere on the system. So what do I look for....

You might want to get familiar with lshal as well.  hal is the
underlying hardware abstraction service that d-bus aware application
use to query hardware capabilities.  But you can use lshal to examine
what hal thinks and thus applications think about your hardware.

-jef




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