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New hardware detection

Post by DrTeeth » Fri Jan 25, 2019 4:23 am

Hi,
Whenever I change computers, I never reinstall the OSs, I just swap the OSs’ drive over.
To cut a LONG story short, it works and don’t listen to anybody who says otherwise. There is only one showstopper to doing this and it involves Win XP.
Back to Linux. Does Linux redetect hardware changes like Windows does? Windows detects all hardware changes without issue loading the correct drivers and I wondered if Mint does the same. My new hardware is a z390 motherboard with an Intel i7 9900K CPU.
Cheers
DrT

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Re: New hardware detection

Post by DAMIEN1307 » Fri Jan 25, 2019 4:52 am

yes the swapping of the HD does work because everything needed for recognition of hardware, firmware, drivers, etc is built into the linux kernel. the only time you would get a problem is if your running the newest hardware that the kernel doesnt recognise because the kernel was conceived before the new hardware existed or if you put that HD into a computer that is so old that support in the kernel ceased long before. DAMIEN

Re: New hardware detection

Post by MrEen » Fri Jan 25, 2019 8:19 am

And that Intel i7 9900K CPU is quite likely too new for your kernel. If running uname -r in the terminal returns anything in the 4.15 series, you’ll need to upgrade the kernel to at least the latest 4.18, and even that might not be new enough.

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Re: New hardware detection

Post by DrTeeth » Sat Jan 26, 2019 11:00 am

@ DAMIEN1307 — That is precisely why it works with windows (all versions except XP, which needs a possible driver change before the swap).

@MrEen Everything is working even with older kernels, even though things may not be optimised.

All my distros are working okay. The only one that I could not get to work was LMDE. It would not recognise my integrated network chip that all the other distros had either installed automatically (Mint amongst others) or manually (OpenSUSE — both Leap and Tumbleweed).

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How to Display System and Hardware Details in Linux Mint 20

Every computer system has certain specifications and sometimes you feel the need to know the details of a particular system component. In such scenarios, you should know all the ways through which you can extract the relevant information about a particular component.

This tutorial will show you a wide range of commands and tools to display hardware details of your computer on Linux Mint 20. The same commands will work on Ubuntu Linux and Debian too.

Displaying System and Hardware Details in Linux Mint 20

There are different ways of displaying different system and hardware details in Linux Mint 20 which are discussed below:

Check computer system name

To check the Kernel name of your system, you have to execute the following command:

Check the Release Number of your System’s Kernel

If you want to check the release number of your system’s kernel, then you will have to execute the command mentioned below:

Check the Version Number of your System’s Kernel

To know the version number of your system’s kernel, the following command should be executed:

Check the Name of your Network Node

You can even know the hostname of your network node by executing the command shown below in your Linux Mint 20 terminal:

Check the Processor Type of your System

You can check out the processor type of your Linux Mint 20 system by running the following command in your terminal:

Check the Operating System of your Machine

The operating system of a Linux Mint 20 system can be checked by executing the command shown below:

Check the system architecture

For checking the make/model of your Linux Mint 20 system’s hardware, you have to execute the following command:

Check the Hardware Platform of your System

You can even check the hardware platform of your Linux Mint 20 system simply by running the command shown below:

Check all the CPU Related Information of your System

Basically, the CPU related information of a Linux based system is stored in the /proc/cpuinfo file. Therefore, if you want to know about all the CPU related information of your Linux Mint 20 system, then you can do it by running the following command:

Check the Architecture of your System

The architecture of a Linux Mint 20 system can be found out by executing the command shown below:

Check the Hard Drive Related Information of your System:

You can check hard drive related information such as disk partitioning, mount points, etc. by running the following command:

Check the Virtualization Status of your System

If you want to check if virtualization is enabled on your system or not, you can execute the command shown below:

The highlighted portion of the image shown above indicates that virtualization is enabled on our Linux Mint 20 system and its type is “full”.

Check the Motherboard Related Information of your System

The motherboard related information of your Linux Mint 20 system can be extracted by running the following command:

Check the Hardware Related Information of your System

For getting all the hardware related information of your Linux Mint 20 system, the “lshw” utility needs to be installed on it by executing the command shown below:

Once this utility is installed, you can use it to get the hardware summary of your system in the following manner:

The -short flag has been used over here to extract the summary. Otherwise, the output of the simple “sudo lshw” command is too large.

Finally, you can even store all your hardware-related statistics in an HTML file by executing the command shown below:

sudo lshw -html > HardwareSummary.html

This HTML file will be stored in your Home directory by default. To access this HTML file, you simply have to double click on it and it will open up with your default web browser as shown in the following image:

Conclusion

This article shared with you the different ways in which you can extract useful information about the different components of a Linux Mint 20 system. Now, you can access relevant information about any of these components at any time you want.

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