Thanks Jeremy,
lshal is PERFECT and I didn't know it existed. Much nicer than the gnome
version. Having said that, why did Ubuntu take it out?
I now know that I have an
82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller
which may help with the original question ;-)
David
Jeremy Visser wrote:
On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 13:49 +1000, david wrote:
While on the subject, Ubuntu used to have a convenient little applet that gave a
list of installed hardware. It seems to have vanished. Does anyone know what it
was called and whether it still exists?
It's called gnome-device-manager, which indeed is no longer installed by
default. There is, however, an eponymous package which will get it back
for you. (Unlike the one that used to be in Ubuntu, it puts itself in
Applications → System Tools → Device Manager.)
gnome-device-manager (which I almost abbreviated as 'gdm' just then) is
just a graphical frontend to HAL. You can get the exact same
information, albeit in text form, with the lshal utility.
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