Hw-probe



Check operability of hardware devices, collect logs and find drivers.

About
The Gentoo Hardware Database is automatically created based on hardware probes collected by sys-apps/hw-probe, by hw-probe.AppImage and this flatpak.

The database is backed up to a Github repository for statistical analysis by third parties.

Install
(Once PR 10246 is done the package can be installed from Gentoo's ebuild repository.) With installed, do

Without eselect, just manually create the repos.conf file

Submit your hardware
Everybody can submit computer details to the database by a single command line:

Statistics
By creating a hardware probe you contribute to the "HDD/SSD desktop-class reliability test" and "Devices with bad Linux-compatibility" studies.

Privacy
Private info is not collected. Moreover, it's safer to share your logs by hw-probe rather than share manually, because most private data is removed or hashed at the client side before uploading.