HW incompatabilities?

**nnjond** · August 7th, 2011

Hi,

I've had problems with every os I've tried on my pc; including distros, (such as my present Ubuntu 11.04), that work fine on my Laptop. So Now I think I should investigate the possoibility of hw incompatabilities. Please could you advice me on what pc info I should collect, and how.

Thanks for your time.

-This i must establish with the live cd

**haqking** · August 7th, 2011

Originally Posted by nnjond

Hi,

I've had problems with every os I've tried on my pc; including distros, (such as my present Ubuntu 11.04), that work fine on my Laptop. So Now I think I should investigate the possoibility of hw incompatabilities. Please could you advice me on what pc info I should collect, and how.

Thanks for your time.

-This i must establish with the live cd

depends what hardware you are having issues with.

check your hardare is supported under linux here http://linuxhcl.com/

if it is then it might be faulty.

be more specific about what hardware you are having incompatabilitied with.
version numbers.
firmware
drivers
error messages

etc etc

**Old_Grey_Wolf** · August 7th, 2011

I have had problems with wireless NICs and Graphics cards/chipsets. If you have the live CD you can type a command in the terminal to list the hardware.

Code:

lshw

or you may need to use

Code:

sudo lshw

I can't remember if the live CD requires sudo; however, I don't think it does since you don't need a password to log in.

Then research the devices to determine if they are compatible with the OS you want to try.

**nnjond** · August 7th, 2011

I thought there were some Bash commands that would reveal all the relevant.

I don't want to take my pc apart and examine it's innards unless I have to.

**Daveth** · August 7th, 2011

or load up Sysinfo from the software centre which displays the innards for you!

**haqking** · August 7th, 2011

Originally Posted by nnjond

I thought there were some Bash commands that would reveal all the relevant.

I don't want to take my pc apart and examine it's innards unless I have to.

so you want to know what hardware you have you mean ?

sudo apt-get install hardinfo

this should give you everythign you need, it is like device manager in windows, should install then give you menu option under system tools