How to determine hardware?

Question

Is there a command to detect the type of processor, type of graphics card, type of hard drive, just the basic hardware my computer is running?

I'm running 12.04.

Solution 1

You can easily find this most of this information out with the dmidecode command:

sudo dmidecode -q

It may be a little verbose though. To find out information about a specific device, you can use the -t type argument. More information on that is here, http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2008/11/how-to-get-hardware-information-on-linux-using-dmidecode-command/

Another option would be to use lshw

sudo lshw

To find out the disk usage of your hard drive, you can use the df command:

sudo df -h

Solution 2

This command will tell you about your hardware (including the specific components you've listed):

sudo lshw

It's possible to run lshw without sudo (i.e., not as root) but it may not give as complete or accurate information.

You can run lshw with the -C flag and an argument, to get information about a specific class of hardware. See man lshw for details.

Comments

[Wings]

For my Acer Travelmate-P243-M, the following works well (others don't show my wireless hardware info in full): $ lspci -vv However, there are many other options beautifully presented here: https://www.binarytides.com/linux-commands-hardware-info/

[TerNovi]

I don't see anything about my video card on there is it because I don't have one or what? I have an AMD processor and ATI graphics. I would put the output here but its too long.

[reverendj1]

Try this sudo lshw -C display That should just display your video card. Your video card should be displayed.

[reverendj1]

Also, if something has a lot of output, you can use paste.ubuntu.com to post it.

[irrational John]

@TerNovi You use the "checkmark" icon as shown in this screenshot. (But then you appear to have already figured that out.) A suggestion: when a comment is no longer relevant, just delete it to help eliminate clutter from your question.