Over the past week my server (running Debian Jessie) has rebooted twice. In the syslog I see this before each reboot, and at no other points:
Aug 15 13:32:58 hoshimiya kernel: [296512.005355] {1}[Hardware Error]: Hardware error from APEI Generic…
Occasionally I want to check what exact model of hardware component I am using. I don't really care about extreme detail things like what brand of capacitor they used on the Motherboard in position xyz. I just want to know what is the exact model of…
The followings are the machine hardware names, processor types and hardware platforms returned by uname:
on a server (with some 64-bit Linux distribution)
-bash-4.1$ uname -m
x86_64
-bash-4.1$ uname -p
x86_64
-bash-4.1$ uname -i
x86_64
on my laptop…
How can I detect the model of a computer, like Leveno or Sony?
Is there any program can do this, for both PC & Laptop?
(I just want to load a specific driver when the target model is detected.)
I'd like to learn more about Unix & Linux and would like to set up a little home test server/ headless box. (I'm thinking of compiling from scratch, to learn how that works; either Gentoo Stage II or Linux from scratch.)
I'd likely only need a…
Today I've tried launching Kubuntu 12.04 LTS on my HP OmniBook XE3 with S3 Savage IX-MV video chip only to find out this:
$ glxinfo|egrep 'renderer|direct' …
I’ve installed Ubuntu 15.10 on a Dell Inspiron 13-7353. Things work okay overall, but two critical problems have appeared.
First, occasionally, when the laptop wakes up from sleep the screen will come on and I can see the desktop, but things are…
lshw shows two VGA compatible controllers.
Where are they located?
What are they used for respectively? Which one do you recommend to use?
Which of the two controllers am I using currently?
With only my T400, is it possible to switch between the…
My Samsung laptop has a built-in camera. The camera works fine.
I want to get detailed information on it, at the very least model and communication bus.
The output of lsusb, lspci, lshw, ls /dev do not show anything interesting ... or do they? Maybe…
I am managing a Debian 11 bullseye server and I want to register its ID inside a database filled with other IDs. I want the ID registered in the database to persist with the physical hardware (i.e. cannot be changed or spoofed by software). I have 3…
What companies sell computers without pre-installed proprietary operating systems like Mac OS X or Windows? I only know of System76, but are there others? Does Asus?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1679010
seeing this log:
Failed to init entropy source hwrng
Does Intel or AMD CPU contain a hwrng device? or it need extra chip/card/device?
I am wondering what would be some useful hardware diagnostics to run on a new machine (I got a refurbished Lenovo T420).
So far I have done the following
used sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda1 | grep -i -E 'hours|cycle|count' to check that my hard disk is…
As a budding dev, I'm looking to buy a linux machine to work with. What are my options in buying a machine that comes installed with linux?
EDIT: I guess my question really was, is there such a thing as buying a machine with linux pre-installed…
