[K12OSN] Is ther a...?

[James P. Kinney III]

On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 11:10 -0600, John P. Conlon wrote:
> Okay and then which commands should I enter to get the terminal to tell 
> me about itself?
> 

From a command line, the area with the info you want is /proc . This
houses details data about everything hardware (and kernel-wise) on the
system. ioports has all of the ports, interrrupts has all the
interrupts. They are all text "files" that can be "read" using
"less /proc/ioports" , etc.

Another useful command is /sbin/lspci . It will tell what is plugged
into the pci sockets on the motherboard. Its sister command /sbin/lsusb
does the same for the USB bus.

A cautionary note: most places in /proc are read only. A few are
run-time kernel variables that if set improperly will cause strange
things to happen. If those need to be set, the place to do it
in /etc/sysctl. It will happen at bootup.

> Eric Harrison wrote:
> 
> > John P. Conlon wrote:
> >
> >> Is there a small program, preferably one that would fit a floppy, 
> >> that will tell me on a client screen the HEX address and IRQ of all 
> >> the devices in the client?  I have found that the client start 
> >> screens nor the BIOS screens on most of my home brew thin clients 
> >> don't give that information and I need it to get things like sound on 
> >> the clients working.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance
> >> Pat
> >>
> >
> > Another approach would be to use LTSP itself to start up a shell on 
> > the terminal:
> >
> > Edit /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf
> >
> > Uncomment the "SCREEN_02 = shell" line and reboot the terminal
> >
> > Now you can press "Ctrl-Alt-F2" to get to a shell on the terminal, or 
> > "Ctrl-Alt-F1" to get back to the normal GUI.
> >
> >
> >
> > -Eric
> >
> >
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