[PLUG] lspci output and matching software to the actual hardware

2023-03-20 Thread American Citizen
To all: The discussion concerning getting a monitor firmware code correct brings up an interesting question: I just ran lspci on my system (under root privileges) and got quite  a long list: How do I assure that the CPU and drivers for the controllers are correctly matched to the hardware?

Re: [PLUG] lspci output and matching software to the actual hardware

2023-03-20 Thread Ben Koenig
lspci -k If the name of a given device looks odd, check the date of your hwdata package. -Ben Sent from ProtonMail mobile Original Message On Mar 20, 2023, 5:29 PM, American Citizen wrote: > To all: The discussion concerning getting a monitor firmware code correct > brings u

Re: [PLUG] lspci output and matching software to the actual hardware

2023-03-20 Thread King Beowulf
On 3/20/23 17:29, American Citizen wrote: > I just ran lspci on my system (under root privileges) and got quite  a > long list: > > How do I assure that the CPU and drivers for the controllers are > correctly matched to the hardware? > > Or do we naively assume that whatever (insert your favorite l

Re: [PLUG] lspci output and matching software to the actual hardware

2023-03-20 Thread MC_Sequoia
"How do I assure that the CPU and drivers for the controllers are correctly matched to the hardware?" If they're not correctly matched those devices either won't be recognize, they'll be listed as "unknown" in the lspci output or they won't work. Also, there are cases when there might be a few