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    new tools in 16.04

    Some of you may already know of it, but I have recently become aware of a new tool available in 'buntu 16.04 for hardware discovery and investigation of problems in one's system.

    It was not in LTS 14.04, but has been included in pre-release versions of LTS 16.04. The new tool, ported over from OpenSuse and run from the command line, is "hwinfo"

    I encourage any of you who may be interested to investigate the capabilities of "hwinfo"
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    Re: new tools in 16.04

    I think it needs installing first.

    Code:
    sudo apt install hwinfo
    I seem to recall installing this in previous releases.

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    Re: new tools in 16.04

    It's not available in normal repos for 14.04.

    I can't comment on other versions later than that apart from 16.04 which I use in VBox.

    How much better is hwinfo than using lshw, and perhaps piping the output to an html file with command
    Code:
    sudo lshw -html >hardware.html
    which gives a huge amount of info.

    Or what about hardinfo, which is available for 14.04, though I've not used it?
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    Re: new tools in 16.04

    According to https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hwinfo, versions are in Precise (supported), Wily (current), and Xenial (pre-release).

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    Re: new tools in 16.04

    Or what about hardinfo, which is available for 14.04, though I've not used it?
    It's also graphically called System Profile and Benchmark,
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    Re: new tools in 16.04

    Thanks guys. Good info here.

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    Re: new tools in 16.04

    This command will put in the home folder an HTML file called hardwareprofile.html. It can be read in a browser

    Code:
    sudo lshw -html >hardwareprofile.html
    Another utility to install is inxi. An example.

    graham@sdb7-Dev:~$ inxi -A
    Audio: Card-1 Intel 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
    Card-2 NVIDIA GT216 HDMI Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
    Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.4.0-18-generic

    As the Ubuntu manpages site is down & there does not seem to be anything in the Ubuntu wiki about inxi, I give you this

    http://smxi.org/docs/inxi.htm

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    Re: new tools in 16.04

    Another utility to install is inxi.
    Yep, I use that too along with lshw and hardinfo. I first found inxi referenced in the Linux Mint forum awhile back. One can never have too many tools.
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    Re: new tools in 16.04

    is hwinfo the same one a sin windows? with real time monitoring and such?
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    Re: new tools in 16.04

    is hwinfo the same one a sin windows? with real time monitoring and such?
    I am not that familiar with windows tools so I can not answer your first question. hwinfo is run from the command line and provides a snapshot of one's detailed hardware information.
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