bionic (8) lsdev.8.gz

Provided by: procinfo_2.0.304-3_amd64 bug

NAME

       lsdev - display information about installed hardware

SYNOPSIS

       lsdev

DESCRIPTION

       lsdev  gathers  information about your computer's installed hardware from the interrupts, ioports and dma
       files in the /proc directory, thus giving you a quick overview of which hardware uses what I/O  addresses
       and what IRQ and DMA channels.

OPTIONS

       None.

FILES

       /proc/interrupts
              IRQ channels.

       /proc/ioports
              I/O memory addresses.

       /proc/dma
              DMA channels.

BUGS

       lsdev  can't  always figure out which lines in the three examined files refer to one and the same device,
       because these files sometimes use different names for the same piece of hardware. For  example,  in  some
       kernels  the  keyboard  is  referred  to as `kbd' in /proc/ioports and as `keyboard' in /proc/interrupts.
       This should be fixed in the kernel, not in lsdev (as has indeed happened for this particular example).

       The program does however try to match lines by stripping anything after a space or open parenthesis  from
       the  name,  so  that  e.g.  the  `serial'  lines from /proc/interrupts match the `serial(set)' lines from
       /proc/ioports.  This attempt at DWIM might be considered a bug in itself.

       This program only shows the kernel's idea of what hardware is present,  not  what's  actually  physically
       available.

SEE ALSO

       procinfo(8).

AUTHOR

       Sander van Malssen <svm@kozmix.cistron.nl>