how to get hardware info

[amrosama]

hey fellow humans,
im trying to write a small application to do the following for ubuntu or other linux dists.
-collect hardware information like motherboard, RAM, display adapters, storage available and processor
-send the info toa webserver

the next step is not important now, i need to know if theres some kind of file on any distribution with the hardware information (even if theres no drivers installed for it). i tried the x-server conf file but most of the times ive tried it on other pc i get the default names like

	Device		"Configured Video Device"

anyone have any ideas?

[Tor]

That info is all in the /proc/ directory. You could examine each file/dir there. You could also use dmesg:

less /var/log/dmesgdmesg | grep -i cpu

output:

[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[    0.000000] KERNEL supported cpus:
[    0.000000]   Transmeta TransmetaCPU
[    0.000000] SMP: Allowing 4 CPUs, 2 hotplug CPUs
[    0.000000] PERCPU: Allocating 45056 bytes of per cpu data
[    0.000000] NR_CPUS: 64, nr_cpu_ids: 4, nr_node_ids 1
[    0.000000] Initializing CPU#0
[    0.004000] SLUB: Genslabs=12, HWalign=128, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=4, Nodes=1
[    0.004000] HPET: 3 timers in total, 0 timers will be used for per-cpu timer
[    0.004000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
[    0.004000] CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K
[    0.004000] CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
[    0.004000] CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
[    0.004000] CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
[    0.485029] CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz stepping 03
[    0.004000] Initializing CPU#1
[    0.004000] CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K
[    0.004000] CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
[    0.004000] CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
[    0.004000] CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
[    0.572571] CPU1: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz stepping 03
[    0.572596] checking TSC synchronization [CPU#0 -> CPU#1]: passed.
[    0.576051] Brought up 2 CPUs
[    0.576109] CPU0 attaching sched-domain:
[    0.576124] CPU1 attaching sched-domain:
[    1.364016] Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0
[    1.364658] Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 1
[    2.054580] cpufreq: No nForce2 chipset.
[    2.129781] processor ACPI_CPU:00: registered as cooling_device0
[    2.129830] processor ACPI_CPU:01: registered as cooling_device1
[    5.068725] cpuidle: using governor ladder
[    5.068729] cpuidle: using governor menu
[    5.070952] processor ACPI_CPU:02: hash matches

Outer examples:

dmesg | grep -i cd
dmesg | grep -i usb

for Video:

less /var/log/dmesg | grep -i Video

[amrosama]

awesome.
just what i needed
thnx alooot