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Re: Sound drivers and hardware scans. Solved.

Weatherlawyer — Thu Aug 02, 2012 5:16 pm

Author: Weatherlawyer

Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 5:16 pm

towy71 wrote:

Code:

sudo dmidecode -t 2

will get you what you want

Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 8 bytes
Base Board Information
Manufacturer:
Product Name: P4i65G
Version: 1.00
Serial Number: 00000000

Re: Sound drivers and hardware scans. Solved.

towy71 — Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:16 am

Author: towy71

Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:16 am

Code:

sudo dmidecode -t 2

will get you what you want

Re: Sound drivers and hardware scans. Solved.

Weatherlawyer — Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:39 am

Author: Weatherlawyer

Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:39 am

MessedUpHare wrote:

you could use dmidecode to find what the motherboard is saying it is... you havto run it as root, though...

Code:

# dmidecode -t 2

[/code]

How do I get it to allow me on as superuser or root?

Also I need to learn some useful commands the Gnome terminal help wasn't, much. Very easy to understand though.

Re: Sound drivers and hardware scans. Solved.

Weatherlawyer — Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:29 am

Author: Weatherlawyer

Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:29 am

nelz wrote:

byobu is a theme for screen, which runs inside a terminal but can be detached and reattached to a different terminal at will.

Try lshw, I find it more useful than hwinfo and it does give motherboard information.

Wilco.

I played with byobu last night and suddenly realised that it was holding my mother board's name on the bottom panel.

Thinking about the install I suddenly realised Ubuntu had forced me to name the computer with that odd number on it. I had assumed it was just a random code number made up on the spot.

ishw found the spot others just can't reach.

My motherboard and the graphics card are no longer someone else's secret.

Thanks to all.

Re: Sound drivers and hardware scans. Solved.

nelz — Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:11 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:11 am

byobu is a theme for screen, which runs inside a terminal but can be detached and reattached to a different terminal at will.

Try lshw, I find it more useful than hwinfo and it does give motherboard information.

Re: Sound drivers and hardware scans. Solved.

Weatherlawyer — Tue Jul 31, 2012 3:48 am

Author: Weatherlawyer

Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 3:48 am

What's the difference between terminal and byobu terminal?

They look identical.

I used hwinfo and got a stupid amount of info mainly about partition on my drives and my drives and USB connections.

No sign of the MOBO.

Re: Sound drivers and hardware scans. Solved.

towy71 — Fri Feb 03, 2012 10:58 am

Author: towy71

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 10:58 am

On my Acer Aspire M1640 gives

Code:

# dmidecode 2.9
SMBIOS 2.5 present.

Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 15 bytes
Base Board Information
Manufacturer: ACER
Product Name: MCP73
Version: NVIDIA MCP73
Serial Number: 000000000
Asset Tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
Features:
Board is a hosting board
Board is replaceable
Location In Chassis: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
Chassis Handle: 0x0003
Type: Motherboard
Contained Object Handles: 0

Well it seems the OEM is a bit not there

Re: Sound drivers and hardware scans. Solved.

wyliecoyoteuk — Fri Feb 03, 2012 10:37 am

Author: wyliecoyoteuk

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 10:37 am

Probably depends on the reseller, HP and Dell tend to use customised motherboards.
On my Lenovo laptop I get:

# dmidecode 2.9
SMBIOS 2.6 present.

Handle 0x000E, DMI type 2, 15 bytes
Base Board Information
Manufacturer: LENOVO
Product Name: 11433LG
Version: Not Available
Serial Number: 1ZKYF1AP4B3
Asset Tag: Not Available
Features:
Board is a hosting board
Board is replaceable
Location In Chassis: Not Available
Chassis Handle: 0x0000
Type: Motherboard
Contained Object Handles: 0

Re: Sound drivers and hardware scans. Solved.

Rhakios — Fri Feb 03, 2012 6:59 am

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 6:59 am

But I get:

# dmidecode 2.9
SMBIOS 2.4 present.

Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 8 bytes
Base Board Information
Manufacturer: ASUSTek Computer INC.
Product Name: NARRA
Version: 1.01
Serial Number: MS1C73S32400696

Actually the motherboard is an Asus M2N68-LA, NARRA is just what HP call it. I wonder if the output depends a lot on whether the machine is home-built, or from a big manufacturer. I had a look at the same thing on my Toshiba laptop last night, and that was pretty uninformative about the motherboard's proper name as well.

Re: Sound drivers and hardware scans. Solved.

Ram — Thu Feb 02, 2012 10:33 pm

Author: Ram

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 10:33 pm

Rhakios wrote:

For me, that only gives to same info as hwinfo, i.e. not the motherboard's full product name.

Pretty darn close for me.

# dmidecode 2.9
SMBIOS 2.5 present.

Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 15 bytes
Base Board Information
Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
Product Name: Crosshair III Formula
Version: Rev 1.xx
Serial Number: 102426410000199
Asset Tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
Features:
Board is a hosting board
Board is replaceable
Location In Chassis: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
Chassis Handle: 0x0003
Type: Motherboard
Contained Object Handles: 0

Re: Sound drivers and hardware scans. Solved.

nelz — Thu Feb 02, 2012 9:45 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 9:45 pm

That was meant to be a rhetorical question, which would have been clear had I typed can't instead of can

Re: Sound drivers and hardware scans. Solved.

MessedUpHare — Thu Feb 02, 2012 9:43 pm

Author: MessedUpHare

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 9:43 pm

Personally, I find hardware issues in windows harder to deal with - especially if the owner has inadvertently installed the wrong driver, the machine can report incorrectly...

Anyhoo, Windows/Linux arguments are fairly dull..

I'm kind of out of ideas with regards to polling the mainboard... Beyond the previously mentioned checking the physical board...

Sorry to dissapoint

Re: Sound drivers and hardware scans. Solved.

wyliecoyoteuk — Thu Feb 02, 2012 9:30 pm

Author: wyliecoyoteuk

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 9:30 pm

Of course you can.

If you do not continue, the application will not be completely installed, and may not function correctly.
Do you not want to continue?

Yes no

Re: Sound drivers and hardware scans. Solved.

nelz — Thu Feb 02, 2012 5:24 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 5:24 pm

And you can hurt yourself with a GUI?

Re: Sound drivers and hardware scans. Solved.

wyliecoyoteuk — Thu Feb 02, 2012 3:55 pm

Author: wyliecoyoteuk

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 3:55 pm

Answering questions with a single line command that can be cut and pasted into a terminal is easier than writing half a page of "click this, select that" descriptions.
Actually, you often see that on windows forums as well, as most programs and config tools can be launched from the command line.
In fact there are some tools in windows that only work properly from the CLI.