hwdetect
Posted: 15 Nov 2010, 09:15
If you're having issues with hardware loading or not loading, all kinds of troubleshooting can be done with this neat little scriptie, hwdetect. It's in the Arch repos. I found it tonight, when researching why my sound card isn't loading on boot at the Arch wiki.
Let 'er rip to install.
Then, to see all hardware modules that are loaded:
More info at the Arch Wiki!
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# pacman -S hwdetectLet 'er rip to install.
Then, to see all hardware modules that are loaded:
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# hwdetect --show-modules
AGP : agpgart intel-agp
ACPI : button processor thermal
PATA : ata_piix
SCSI : scsi_mod sd_mod sr_mod st
SATA : ata_piix
USB : usb-storage usbcore ehci-hcd uhci-hcd option usbserial usb_wwan
FW : firewire-core firewire-ohci
NET : e100 mii ppp_generic slhc
INPUT : evdev psmouse serio_raw
SOUND : pcspkr ac97_bus snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-seq-oss snd-seq-device snd-seq snd-seq-midi-event snd-hwdep snd snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-rawmidi snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-emu10k1 snd-intel8x0 soundcore snd-util-mem
VIDEO : nvidia
OTHER : floppy cdrom intel-rng lp ppdev tpm_bios tpm tpm_tis tpm_tis tpm_tis i2c-i801 i2c-core parport parport_pc pci_hotplug shpchp rtc-cmos rtc-core rtc-lib iTCO_vendor_support iTCO_wdt crc-itu-tMore info at the Arch Wiki!