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Grem41
Joined: 15 Feb 2011 Posts: 42 Location: Portsmouth UK
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Posted: Thu 24 Mar 2011, 13:55 Post subject:
Can Puppy identify the type of RAM? Subject description: i.e., DDR, etc.. |
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Hi Guys,
Is there a command or GUI I can use to request the type of RAM ie DDR etc not just it’s value so I can add more memory ( I only have 64MB ). I done often by just opening the case but if software does it, great.
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DPUP5520
Joined: 16 Feb 2011 Posts: 813
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Posted: Thu 24 Mar 2011, 14:04 Post subject:
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Grem41
Joined: 15 Feb 2011 Posts: 42 Location: Portsmouth UK
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Posted: Fri 25 Mar 2011, 13:09 Post subject:
lshw -c memory |
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Thanks DPUP5520 for replying.
Tried the code you suggested with the outcome lshw not found by bash. Googled the code and found I needed to be in root with superuser rights.
If so how do I get to that point via Command Line with those rights as I thought I was superuser anyway.
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DPUP5520
Joined: 16 Feb 2011 Posts: 813
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Posted: Fri 25 Mar 2011, 13:29 Post subject:
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You are running in root, as I also use Ubuntu and this is where the code comes from I thought it might be in Puppy too but apparently not. Why not use the program Hardinfo I thought that was included in the Puppy main releases?
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PANZERKOPF
Joined: 16 Dec 2009 Posts: 282 Location: Earth
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Posted: Fri 25 Mar 2011, 15:52 Post subject:
Re: Identifying memory |
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Grem41 wrote: | Hi Guys,
Is there a command or GUI I can use to request the type of RAM ie DDR |
dmidecode.
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RetroTechGuy

Joined: 15 Dec 2009 Posts: 2849 Location: USA
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Posted: Fri 25 Mar 2011, 16:21 Post subject:
Re: lshw -c memory |
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Grem41 wrote: | Thanks DPUP5520 for replying.
Tried the code you suggested with the outcome lshw not found by bash. Googled the code and found I needed to be in root with superuser rights.
If so how do I get to that point via Command Line with those rights as I thought I was superuser anyway.
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I don't think it's installed by default:
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/lshw
You probably only need to install (Puppy knows how to install a .deb package):
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/lshw/lshw_02.14-1_i386.deb
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neurino

Joined: 15 Oct 2009 Posts: 360
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Posted: Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:54 Post subject:
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Don't directly install deb packages if you use a printer with your puppy.
Rather do something like this script:
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#!/bin/bash
tempdir="/tmp/lshw-02.14-1"
mkdir -p "$tempdir" && cd "$tempdir"
wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/lshw/lshw_02.14-1_i386.deb
undeb lshw_02.14-1_i386.deb
rm lshw_02.14-1_i386.deb
dir2pet "$tempdir"
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rjbrewer

Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4421 Location: merriam, kansas
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Posted: Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:08 Post subject:
Re: Identifying memory |
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PANZERKOPF wrote: | Grem41 wrote: | Hi Guys,
Is there a command or GUI I can use to request the type of RAM ie DDR |
dmidecode. |
This works great;
thanks for the tip.
Anyone vaguely familiar with Google should know that hundreds of
sites tell you exactly what kind of ram you need.
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RetroTechGuy

Joined: 15 Dec 2009 Posts: 2849 Location: USA
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Posted: Sun 27 Mar 2011, 16:36 Post subject:
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neurino wrote: | Don't directly install deb packages if you use a printer with your puppy.
Rather do something like this script:
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#!/bin/bash
tempdir="/tmp/lshw-02.14-1"
mkdir -p "$tempdir" && cd "$tempdir"
wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/lshw/lshw_02.14-1_i386.deb
undeb lshw_02.14-1_i386.deb
rm lshw_02.14-1_i386.deb
dir2pet "$tempdir"
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Does it break the printer if you do a direct install? The Puppy-Package-Manager knows and records when you install a .deb (at least on recent versions: 4.3.1, 5.20)
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pemasu

Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5484 Location: Finland
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Posted: Sun 27 Mar 2011, 17:31 Post subject:
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At least some browsers installed from .deb has changed permissions of cups files.
The result is that cups wont print anymore. There are at least two separate reports of that. Neurino has one example somewhere inside forum.
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r1tz

Joined: 09 Sep 2010 Posts: 165 Location: In #puppylinux (IRC)
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Posted: Sun 27 Mar 2011, 17:40 Post subject:
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hardinfo?
Make a zenity/yad/easybashgui GUI with that command?
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DPUP5520
Joined: 16 Feb 2011 Posts: 813
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Posted: Sun 27 Mar 2011, 18:30 Post subject:
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It's under System
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RetroTechGuy

Joined: 15 Dec 2009 Posts: 2849 Location: USA
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Posted: Sun 27 Mar 2011, 20:02 Post subject:
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pemasu wrote: | At least some browsers installed from .deb has changed permissions of cups files.
The result is that cups wont print anymore. There are at least two separate reports of that. Neurino has one example somewhere inside forum. |
OK, I'm a little puzzled. The package referenced above was "lshw" (list hardware), which is a pretty simple package. I've had very good luck with such "simple" packages (mg, lshw, and even dosemu).
However I agree, I would not encourage installation of very complex packages (e.g. browsers, compilers, etc) from .deb packages. Just getting the dependencies working is likely to break something else.
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DPUP5520
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Posted: Sun 27 Mar 2011, 20:50 Post subject:
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Made a pet for lshw here
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=508243#508243
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