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Chapter 3. General Utilities

hwinfo-25.2

Introduction to hwinfo

The hwinfo package provides a utility and library for checking the hardware information of the system, backed by OpenSUSE.

Note

This may take a while to build. Feel free to do something else while this is building.

hwinfo Dependencies

Required

libx86emu-3.7

Recommended

XML::Writer (to allow the use of the convert_hd Perl script)

Installation of hwinfo

Install hwinfo by running the following commands: 

make -j1 LIBDIR=/usr/lib HWINFO_VERSION=25.2

Note

The ./check_hd --check --sort --cfile command part during the build process may seem to hang. This process just takes a while since it's single-threaded.

Now, as the root user: 

make LIBDIR=/usr/lib HWINFO_VERSION=25.2 install &&
for man in {1,8}; do
  install -vDm644 doc/*."$man" -t /usr/share/man/man"$man"/
done

Contents

Installed Programs: check_hd, convert_hd, getsysinfo, hwinfo, and mk_isdnhwdb
Installed Libraries: libhd
Installed Directories: /usr/share/hwinfo and /var/lib/hardware/udi

Note

All the programs are installed in /usr/sbin.

Short Descriptions

check_hd

checks for hardware data and outputs to a PCI IDS file

convert_hd

converts hardware data from the internal format to other formats

getsysinfo

collects system data for debugging purposes

hwinfo

outputs in-depth hardware data

mk_isdnhwdb

is an internal component that makes an internal hardware database

libhd

provides functions for scanning hardware information