Hardware detection
From Gentoo Wiki
This article lists and describes utilities used to detect and provide information on hardware. See the respective article for additional details on each utility.
Available software
| Utility | Package | Description |
|---|---|---|
| dmidecode | sys-apps/dmidecode | DMI (Desktop Management Interface) table related utilities |
| hdparm | sys-apps/hdparm | hdparm is a command line utility to set and view ATA & SATA hard disk drive hardware parameters. |
| hwinfo | sys-apps/hwinfo | The hardware detection utility of OpenSUSE. |
| hw-probe | sys-apps/hw-probe | Probe for hardware, check its operability and upload result to the Linux hardware DB: https://linux-hardware.org |
| inxi | sys-apps/inxi | A system information script for IRC and system administrators. |
| libinput list-devices | dev-libs/libinput | list local devices as recognized by libinput |
| lpinfo | net-print/cups | Lists all printers and the available drivers (.ppd files). |
| lsinput | sys-apps/input-utils | Small collection of linux input layer utils |
| lshw | sys-apps/lshw | Generates a structured list of detected hardware and their features. |
| lspci | sys-apps/pciutils | Includes command-line tools for identifying PCI system hardware. |
| lsusb | sys-apps/usbutils | Includes command-line tools for identifying USB system hardware. |
| i2cdetect | sys-apps/i2c-tools | I2C tools for bus probing, chip dumping, register-level access helpers, EEPROM decoding, and more. |
| sensors-detect | sys-apps/lm-sensors | Detects temperature sensors |
| Scan modem | Not applicable | scanModem.sh is a script used for finding suited driver for connected modems. |