How lshal gets informations?

Danny Kukawka danny.kukawka at web.de
Fri Dec 7 04:56:31 PST 2007


On Freitag, 7. Dezember 2007, Martin Owens wrote:
> > I've the problem that i can't get all necessary informations out of my
> > system.
> > When i start from a Ubuntu Live-CD i can get Informations like:
>
> Like most hardware programs, lshal doesn't use just hal it also uses
> the dmidecode, biosdecode and even some ddc, i2c calls. Not all of
> this is available via hal and I know from my experence with
> dohickey-project.com that you can't always find the information you
> need.

I don't know what kind of lshal you use, but the lshal from the HAL package 
use _only_ hal to get it's info. No additional tools as dmidecode or 
something else.

Danny


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