--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, Tony Mitchell <greenstar@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Roy,
> firstly my apologies for not getting on with this. My life is a bit like
> this currently!
>
> I find two options, to open 'terminal' and 'terminal as root', but both
> give the same result (root password given automatically) with the response
> tony@debiantony:~$ lshw
> bash: lshw: command not found
>
> This is what stymied me when following the instructions found on this
> topic in various forums.
> Debian Lenny, just updated. Ram is 248.0Mb, Pentium III (Coppermine).
> Seems to run pretty fast.
>
> Tony
>
You probably have lspci.If not:
aptitude install pciutils
I also like hwinfo.
aptitude install hwinfo
But hwinfo is pretty verbose so you might want to redirect its output to a file so you can browse or search through it. At the very least pipe the command through a pager.
A lot of your system's hardware information can be gotten simply by using dmesg or going through a log file. /var/log/syslog and kern.log come to mind.
I have a Pentium 3 here as well. Though I cannot say it is very fast.
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/2250/wedoct27bootchart.png
Stock it took 21 seconds with some system tuning I got the time down a bit. My i3 comes up in 5.6 seconds with no real tuning done to it. Other performance differences are similar P3 over an hour to build a kernel i3 15 minutes.
Once I get further along with the project I am using my P3 for I'll replace it with an atom box as I cannot reduce system latency below 24500 ns on the P3 atoms typically have latencies of 6000 ns or better.
I actually worked on my P3 earlier today. I made a half height video adapter bracket for it out of a spare full height one. But I'll file that story another day. Get it, file?
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