[rhelv6-list] kudzu replacement

[Gianluca Cecchi]

> Michael Coffman said:
>> In redhat 5 I used kudzu to get the video card vendor and from this make
>> configuration decisions e.g.


or perhaps use lshw
But it is neither in RH EL repo nor in EPEL one.
You can download from dag:
http://pkgs.repoforge.org/lshw/

see also:
http://www.ducea.com/2006/06/03/use-lshw-hardware-lister-to-get-detailed-information-on-the-hardware-configuration-of-your-linux-system/

upstream:
http://ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter

There is also a graphical version

tried only on CentOS
On a server HP BL685c G1 it gives for display:
# lshw -class display
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: ES1000
       vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
       physical id: 3
       bus info: pci at 0000:01:03.0
       version: 02
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=radeon latency=127 mingnt=8
       resources: irq:18 memory:d0000000-d7ffffff(prefetchable)
ioport:1000(size=256) memory:d9ff0000-d9ffffff
memory:d9e00000-d9e1ffff(prefetchable)

On my Asus U36SD laptop with both nvidia and intel it gives on Fedora
17 (lshw id present in fedora repo):
$ sudo lshw -class display
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: nVidia Corporation
       vendor: nVidia Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci at 0000:01:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
       resources: irq:16 memory:db000000-dbffffff
memory:c0000000-cfffffff memory:d0000000-d1ffffff
ioport:d000(size=128) memory:dc000000-dc07ffff
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated
Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci at 0000:00:02.0
       version: 09
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: irq:48 memory:dc400000-dc7fffff
memory:b0000000-bfffffff ioport:e000(size=64)

HIH,
Gianluca