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Randall R Schulz

2 Nov 2006 2 Nov '06

20:32

Hi, Can anyone put me on to a utility that gives detailed CPU information in a manner (GUI) similar to CPU-Z? For those not familiar with the Windows utility CPU-Z, see: http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php Thanks. Randall Schulz

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Hans du Plooy

2 Nov 2 Nov

22:12

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On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 12:32 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:

Hi,

Can anyone put me on to a utility that gives detailed CPU information in a manner (GUI) similar to CPU-Z?

For those not familiar with the Windows utility CPU-Z, see:

http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

Just open a terminal and type: cat /proc/cpuinfo Hans

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Randall R Schulz

22:28

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Hans, On Thursday 02 November 2006 14:11, Hans du Plooy wrote:

On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 12:32 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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Hi,

Can anyone put me on to a utility that gives detailed CPU information in a manner (GUI) similar to CPU-Z?

For those not familiar with the Windows utility CPU-Z, see:

http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

Just open a terminal and type:

"Open" a terminal? I have a minimum of 8 shells open in Konsole whenever I'm logged in.

cat /proc/cpuinfo

Two things: 1) I asked for a GUI. That's 'cause I want a GUI in this case. 2) /proc/cpuinfo does not appear to have as complete a set of information as CPU-Z and most of what it has is encoded and inscrutable.

Hans

RRS

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Hans du Plooy

22:37

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On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 14:28 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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Can anyone put me on to a utility that gives detailed CPU information in a manner (GUI) similar to CPU-Z?

For those not familiar with the Windows utility CPU-Z, see:

http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

Just open a terminal and type:

1) I asked for a GUI. That's 'cause I want a GUI in this case. Sorry, I read like my behind.

2) /proc/cpuinfo does not appear to have as complete a set of information as CPU-Z and most of what it has is encoded and inscrutable. I don't have Windows running anywhere to check what CPU-Z looks like, last time I used it (several years ago) /proc/cpuinfo had more or less the same stuff in.

What info are you looking for? Hans

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Randall R Schulz

23:00

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On Thursday 02 November 2006 14:37, Hans du Plooy wrote:

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I don't have Windows running anywhere to check what CPU-Z looks like, last time I used it (several years ago) /proc/cpuinfo had more or less the same stuff in.

You can see a sample of one tab of the CPU-Z display here: http://www.cpuid.com/pics/IDF-3.jpg

What info are you looking for?

The info provided by CPU-Z presented in a manner similar to the way it's presented in CPU-Z, which is to say decoded into human-readable form and organized in a coherent GUI. As I said.

Hans

Randall Schulz

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M Harris

22:38

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On Thursday 02 November 2006 16:28, Randall R Schulz wrote:

1) I asked for a GUI. That's 'cause I want a GUI in this case. I'll send you a tcl/tk script (gui) that will parse the cpuinfo for you.

2) /proc/cpuinfo does not appear to have as complete a set of information as CPU-Z and most of what it has is encoded and inscrutable. Actually, it doesn't get much clearer than /proc/cpuinfo. But, I am beginning to appreciate you Schulz...

In Suse the name of the gui tool is called Monitor. Click the lizard (the start button) hover over system hover over Monitor click on whatever your heart desires... like... Processor (It will give you /proc/cpuinfo, gut you got there by gui by golly) -- Kind regards, M Harris <><

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Randall R Schulz

23:00

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On Thursday 02 November 2006 15:38, M Harris wrote:

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(It will give you /proc/cpuinfo, gut you got there by gui by golly)

Hardly. That is indistinguishable from /proc/cpuinfo, as I'm sure you know. If you don't have anything constructive to add, you shouldn't feel compelled to write. RRS

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M Harris

23:09

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On Thursday 02 November 2006 17:00, Randall R Schulz wrote:

Hardly. That is indistinguishable from /proc/cpuinfo, as I'm sure you know.

If you don't have anything constructive to add, you shouldn't feel compelled to write. Here is something constructive for you...

Gui stands for Graphical User Interface. Everything on your desktop (including your (8) open terminals) are gui. (all of it) So what are you asking for... a pretty box that lights up with some silly animated blinking cpu chip and background music that displays cute little fields that contain, well, uh, basically, /proc/cpuinfo ?!? I have a question for you ... just curiosity... what part of /proc/cpuinfo do you not understand in human readable terms... since it is all, well, perfectly human readable? What do you mean when you say that you want to see the information in a ( gui )¿ I'm very serious about this. ? -- Kind regards, M Harris <><

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Randall R Schulz

23:28

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On Thursday 02 November 2006 16:10, M Harris wrote:

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Gui stands for Graphical User Interface. Everything on your desktop (including your (8) open terminals) are gui. (all of it) So what are you asking for... a pretty box that lights up with some silly animated blinking cpu chip and background music that displays cute little fields that contain, well, uh, basically, /proc/cpuinfo ?!?

In this context I don't think pedanticism is what's called for.

I have a question for you ... just curiosity... what part of /proc/cpuinfo do you not understand in human readable terms... since it is all, well, perfectly human readable? What do you mean when you say that you want to see the information in a ( gui )¿ I'm very serious about this. ?

OK. For starters, tell me what these mean: % egrep flags /proc/cpuinfo flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm Disparage GUIs all you want, sometimes they're the best way to present information. Furthermore, CPU-Z consolidates information about all sorts of hardware characteristics, not merely CPU information. This is apparent from even the one screen shot I referenced.

-- Kind regards,

Really? It hardly seems that way.

M Harris <><

RRS

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M Harris

3 Nov 3 Nov

00:12

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On Thursday 02 November 2006 17:28, Randall R Schulz wrote:

OK. For starters, tell me what these mean:

flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm Your response indirectly begs the question... of all the human readable output from /proc/cpuinfo (which is useful to you) flags does not include information which is directly useful... but at least your question begins to get to the specific points... so here we go...

[ fields left justified, explanations indented ] processor : 0 One processor installed, the first processor (numbering is from 0) vendor_id : GenuineIntel Intel built the cpu chip installed in this system cpu family : 6 The processor is an i686 chip model : 13 The processor model.... model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.60GHz The processor name.... and freq (rounded) stepping : 8 Frequency stepping... not something relevant to most users in any gui.... cpu MHz : 1598.081 The precise CPU operating frequency just less than 1.6Ghz cache size : 1024 KB The cache size... in kilobytes fdiv_bug : no Floating point division bug.... uh, nope.... hlt_bug : no another hardware bug.... nope, f00f_bug : no another bug.... ,nope coma_bug : no and another bug...., nope fpu : yes Floating Point Unit.... Yes fpu_exception : yes Floating Point Unit Exception Yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe nx There are those pesky little kernel/processor flags... which are not relevant to ANYONE who has to use a third party gui.... or anyone who is not a kernel developer... or the just plain curious... like the kitties that got killed by it.... bogomips : 3199.39 Bogus Millions of Instructions Per Second.... this is a relative measure of how (relatively) fast the machine is.... although, as the name implies... its well, bogus. My first Linux system had a bogomip reading of about 200 (486 DX 40, running RH5.2 2.0.36 kernel) Get serious... all of the output fields from /proc/cpuinfo *could* be placed into a "dialog box" with little text fields and an "OK" button. We could even write the stupid thing (like most windoze utils) in C++ or C# and have it take up oh... 4.5 meg or so... and give it an icon and place it in a folder called "Expensive Useless Utilities" and charge people for it.... BUT WHY WOULD WE WANT TO DO THAT. Windoze already does that. The Linux way is sweet, simple, free (as in freedom), and relatively inexpensive (as in money). (I trust this is at least a little constructive, or at least constructively pedantic, or maybe pedantically instructive) :-| -- Kind regards, M Harris <><

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Randall R Schulz

00:35

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On Thursday 02 November 2006 17:13, M Harris wrote:

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(I trust this is at least a little constructive, or at least constructively pedantic, or maybe pedantically instructive) :-|

Not hardly. You're just flogging the dead horse of your jaded opinion of graphical user interfaces. Get a blog.

M Harris <><

RRS

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Ed McCanless

02:15

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M Harris wrote:

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(I trust this is at least a little constructive, or at least constructively pedantic, or maybe pedantically instructive) :-|

Many thanks to Hans, Jim, and M Harris for trying so hard to please Randall. This was the first post I got on this thread (the beginning hasn't got here yet), so I was a little confused 'til I went to the archives for the start. I learned a lot here, whether Randall and Kai did or not. I'm not sure I understand the question yet, but I found the answers quite understandable and useful. Stay in good spirits (try some good spirits?), -- ED --

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jim barnes

00:13

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On Thursday 02 November 2006 16:28, Randall R Schulz wrote:

OK. For starters, tell me what these mean:

% egrep flags /proc/cpuinfo flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm

jbarnes@shuttle:~$ cat /usr/include/asm-i386/cpufeature.h | grep ^'#define X86_FEATURE_' #define X86_FEATURE_FPU (0*32+ 0) /* Onboard FPU */ #define X86_FEATURE_VME (0*32+ 1) /* Virtual Mode Extensions */ #define X86_FEATURE_DE (0*32+ 2) /* Debugging Extensions */ #define X86_FEATURE_PSE (0*32+ 3) /* Page Size Extensions */ #define X86_FEATURE_TSC (0*32+ 4) /* Time Stamp Counter */ #define X86_FEATURE_MSR (0*32+ 5) /* Model-Specific Registers, RDMSR, WRMSR */ #define X86_FEATURE_PAE (0*32+ 6) /* Physical Address Extensions */ #define X86_FEATURE_MCE (0*32+ 7) /* Machine Check Architecture */ #define X86_FEATURE_CX8 (0*32+ 8) /* CMPXCHG8 instruction */ #define X86_FEATURE_APIC (0*32+ 9) /* Onboard APIC */ #define X86_FEATURE_SEP (0*32+11) /* SYSENTER/SYSEXIT */ #define X86_FEATURE_MTRR (0*32+12) /* Memory Type Range Registers */ #define X86_FEATURE_PGE (0*32+13) /* Page Global Enable */ #define X86_FEATURE_MCA (0*32+14) /* Machine Check Architecture */ #define X86_FEATURE_CMOV (0*32+15) /* CMOV instruction (FCMOVCC and FCOMI too if FPU present) */ #define X86_FEATURE_PAT (0*32+16) /* Page Attribute Table */ #define X86_FEATURE_PSE36 (0*32+17) /* 36-bit PSEs */ #define X86_FEATURE_PN (0*32+18) /* Processor serial number */ #define X86_FEATURE_CLFLSH (0*32+19) /* Supports the CLFLUSH instruction */ #define X86_FEATURE_DTES (0*32+21) /* Debug Trace Store */ #define X86_FEATURE_ACPI (0*32+22) /* ACPI via MSR */ #define X86_FEATURE_MMX (0*32+23) /* Multimedia Extensions */ #define X86_FEATURE_FXSR (0*32+24) /* FXSAVE and FXRSTOR instructions (fast save and restore */ #define X86_FEATURE_XMM (0*32+25) /* Streaming SIMD Extensions */ #define X86_FEATURE_XMM2 (0*32+26) /* Streaming SIMD Extensions-2 */ #define X86_FEATURE_SELFSNOOP (0*32+27) /* CPU self snoop */ #define X86_FEATURE_HT (0*32+28) /* Hyper-Threading */ #define X86_FEATURE_ACC (0*32+29) /* Automatic clock control */ #define X86_FEATURE_IA64 (0*32+30) /* IA-64 processor */ #define X86_FEATURE_SYSCALL (1*32+11) /* SYSCALL/SYSRET */ #define X86_FEATURE_MP (1*32+19) /* MP Capable. */ #define X86_FEATURE_NX (1*32+20) /* Execute Disable */ #define X86_FEATURE_MMXEXT (1*32+22) /* AMD MMX extensions */ #define X86_FEATURE_LM (1*32+29) /* Long Mode (x86-64) */ #define X86_FEATURE_3DNOWEXT (1*32+30) /* AMD 3DNow! extensions */ #define X86_FEATURE_3DNOW (1*32+31) /* 3DNow! */ #define X86_FEATURE_RECOVERY (2*32+ 0) /* CPU in recovery mode */ #define X86_FEATURE_LONGRUN (2*32+ 1) /* Longrun power control */ #define X86_FEATURE_LRTI (2*32+ 3) /* LongRun table interface */ #define X86_FEATURE_CXMMX (3*32+ 0) /* Cyrix MMX extensions */ #define X86_FEATURE_K6_MTRR (3*32+ 1) /* AMD K6 nonstandard MTRRs */ #define X86_FEATURE_CYRIX_ARR (3*32+ 2) /* Cyrix ARRs (= MTRRs) */ #define X86_FEATURE_CENTAUR_MCR (3*32+ 3) /* Centaur MCRs (= MTRRs) */ #define X86_FEATURE_K8 (3*32+ 4) /* Opteron, Athlon64 */ #define X86_FEATURE_K7 (3*32+ 5) /* Athlon */ #define X86_FEATURE_P3 (3*32+ 6) /* P3 */ #define X86_FEATURE_P4 (3*32+ 7) /* P4 */ #define X86_FEATURE_XMM3 (4*32+ 0) /* Streaming SIMD Extensions-3 */ #define X86_FEATURE_MWAIT (4*32+ 3) /* Monitor/Mwait support */ #define X86_FEATURE_DSCPL (4*32+ 4) /* CPL Qualified Debug Store */ #define X86_FEATURE_EST (4*32+ 7) /* Enhanced SpeedStep */ #define X86_FEATURE_TM2 (4*32+ 8) /* Thermal Monitor 2 */ #define X86_FEATURE_CID (4*32+10) /* Context ID */ #define X86_FEATURE_CX16 (4*32+13) /* CMPXCHG16B */ #define X86_FEATURE_XTPR (4*32+14) /* Send Task Priority Messages */ #define X86_FEATURE_XSTORE (5*32+ 2) /* on-CPU RNG present (xstore insn) */ #define X86_FEATURE_XSTORE_EN (5*32+ 3) /* on-CPU RNG enabled */ #define X86_FEATURE_XCRYPT (5*32+ 6) /* on-CPU crypto (xcrypt insn) */ #define X86_FEATURE_XCRYPT_EN (5*32+ 7) /* on-CPU crypto enabled */ #define X86_FEATURE_LAHF_LM (5*32+ 0) /* LAHF/SAHF in long mode */ #define X86_FEATURE_CMP_LEGACY (5*32+ 1) /* If yes HyperThreading not valid */ HTH, -- Jim Barnes -- Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet, you can't win. -Lazarus Long -- Linux 2.6.15-27-386

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Randall R Schulz

00:31

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On Thursday 02 November 2006 16:13, jim barnes wrote:

On Thursday 02 November 2006 16:28, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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OK. For starters, tell me what these mean:

% egrep flags /proc/cpuinfo flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm

jbarnes@shuttle:~$ cat /usr/include/asm-i386/cpufeature.h | grep^'#define X86_FEATURE_'

I can't believe you think this is a way to find out information about your hardware. RRS

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Kai Ponte

00:18

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On Thursday 02 November 2006 15:28, Randall R Schulz wrote:

On Thursday 02 November 2006 16:10, M Harris wrote:

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Gui stands for Graphical User Interface. Everything on your desktop (including your (8) open terminals) are gui. (all of it) So what are you asking for... a pretty box that lights up with some silly animated blinking cpu chip and background music that displays cute little fields that contain, well, uh, basically, /proc/cpuinfo ?!?

In this context I don't think pedanticism is what's called for.

LOL!

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I have a question for you ... just curiosity... what part of /proc/cpuinfo do you not understand in human readable terms... since it is all, well, perfectly human readable? What do you mean when you say that you want to see the information in a ( gui )¿ I'm very serious about this. ?

OK. For starters, tell me what these mean:

% egrep flags /proc/cpuinfo flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm

Disparage GUIs all you want, sometimes they're the best way to present information.

Furthermore, CPU-Z consolidates information about all sorts of hardware characteristics, not merely CPU information. This is apparent from even the one screen shot I referenced.

Well stated, Randall. I firmly believe there should be a GUI for everything, whether or not the CLI purists out there want one. I think the beauty of Linux is not being forced to do things one way, but allowing those with different opinions to "have it their way". (Of course, the GIMP folks would disagree with me on that item.) I never used CPU-Z, but I googled it and I can see it has a decently presented easy-to-understand MDI interface with all functions well-labeled. It appears similar - but more advanced to KInfoCenter. I thought, I'd run cpuinfo, so I clicked Geeko>Run>/proc/cpuinfo and was presented with the "what do you want me to use?" screen. I went to my CLI and typed the /proc/cpu info. I got the following: kai@sith:~> /proc/cpuinfo bash: /proc/cpuinfo: Permission denied Yup! That's useful. I was bashed. (Whatever bashing is.) Being the l33t linux user, I thought I'd switch to super user, and got the following: sith:/home/kai # /proc/cpuinfo bash: /proc/cpuinfo: Permission denied Bashed again. I'll have to see if there's a need for this type of app - whatever cpuinfo does - in Linux. Might be an interesting project. :) -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com

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Patrick Shanahan

00:27

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* Kai Ponte [11-02-06 19:21]: - - -

I thought, I'd run cpuinfo, so I clicked Geeko>Run>/proc/cpuinfo and was presented with the "what do you want me to use?" screen.

I went to my CLI and typed the /proc/cpu info. I got the following:

kai@sith:~> /proc/cpuinfo bash: /proc/cpuinfo: Permission denied

/proc/* are text files, not executables or scripts. even windoz will not run a file that does not have an 'executable' extension. It doesn't even know what type a file is without an extension. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2

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M Harris

00:42

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On Thursday 02 November 2006 18:27, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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kai@sith:~> /proc/cpuinfo bash: /proc/cpuinfo: Permission denied

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/proc/* are text files, not executables or scripts.

even windoz will not run a file that does not have an 'executable' extension. It doesn't even know what type a file is without an extension. ... and let's see...

-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2006-11-02 19:36 cpuinfo Oh... only read flags are showing... that means that no one my write to it (except the kernel), and no one my execute it... NO ONE... But leave it to someone to try... <sigh> But it looks like anyone can read it... let's see... cat /proc/cpuinfo Yup, that worked. Or, you can use the Suse tools I pedantically showed Randy earlier... -- Kind regards, M Harris <><

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Kai Ponte

03:07

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On Thursday 02 November 2006 16:27, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Kai Ponte [11-02-06 19:21]: - - -

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I thought, I'd run cpuinfo, so I clicked Geeko>Run>/proc/cpuinfo and was presented with the "what do you want me to use?" screen.

I went to my CLI and typed the /proc/cpu info. I got the following:

kai@sith:~> /proc/cpuinfo bash: /proc/cpuinfo: Permission denied

- - -

/proc/* are text files, not executables or scripts.

Ahh, so I had to do less /proc/cpuinfo: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 13 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.80GHz stepping : 6 cpu MHz : 600.000 That got me a bunch of info. Understood.

even windoz will not run a file that does not have an 'executable' extension.

Correct. I have dealt with that for years. :P

It doesn't even know what type a file is without an extension.

Yes, people used to get mad at me when I'd rant about how HPFS had extended attributes on OS/2 but not NT? I complained all the way through version 5.1... ...but far be it for me to rock the boat. Hmm, this information sounds like an expanded list of what is available under My Computer as well as KInfoCenter. Yup! All the information is in KInfoCenter. Oh, there already IS a GUI for this stuff. :) -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com

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Peter Nikolic

07:05

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On Friday 03 November 2006 00:18, Kai Ponte wrote:

On Thursday 02 November 2006 15:28, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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On Thursday 02 November 2006 16:10, M Harris wrote:

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kai@sith:~> /proc/cpuinfo bash: /proc/cpuinfo: Permission denied

Yup! That's useful. I was bashed. (Whatever bashing is.)

Being the l33t linux user, I thought I'd switch to super user, and got the following:

sith:/home/kai # /proc/cpuinfo bash: /proc/cpuinfo: Permission denied

Bashed again.

I'll have to see if there's a need for this type of app - whatever cpuinfo does - in Linux. Might be an interesting project. :)

-- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com

Bieng as it is close to that darn con artists time of the year Bahhhhhhhhh HUMBUG "CLI" IS King .. Pete .

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Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)

10 Nov 10 Nov

12:58

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Kai Ponte wrote:

On Thursday 02 November 2006 15:28, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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I'll have to see if there's a need for this type of app - whatever cpuinfo does - in Linux. Might be an interesting project. :)

How about writing it the need up for CPU-Z on the SUSE Linux package request page? http://en.opensuse.org/Package_Wishlist -- #!/bin/bash echo "=================================================================" echo "Using unpatched SuSE 9.2 Professional with KDE and Mozilla 1.7.2" echo "Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org" uptime echo "================================================================="

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M Harris

2 Nov 2 Nov

23:38

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On Thursday 02 November 2006 16:11, Hans du Plooy wrote:

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For those not familiar with the Windows utility CPU-Z, see:

http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

Just open a terminal and type:

cat /proc/cpuinfo Check out http://www.cpuid.com/index.php

This will shed some light on the gui in question... in all seriousness this is an excellent example of one of the many woes of windoze... what should be readily accessible through a built-in utility must be provided (at outrageous cost) by some third party proprietary, uh, gui (cute little text fields on a boring grey windoze background, probably with background music). Never mind that the Linux kernel places the information (for free) in the proc directory for anyone to browse in perfectly human readable form (common text like all other proc output from the kernel) without additional cost or license... or installation, or hassle. What some folks continue to ask is rather annoying... "Is there anything to make Linux look and behave as rediculously as windoze?" (this probably isn't constructive, but oh well) (it doesn't matter, cause it isn't human readable) ;-)) -- Kind regards, M Harris <><

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Hans du Plooy

22:55

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On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 12:32 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:

Hi,

Can anyone put me on to a utility that gives detailed CPU information in a manner (GUI) similar to CPU-Z?

For those not familiar with the Windows utility CPU-Z, see:

http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

Yast --> Hardware --> Hardware Information gives a little bit more information. http://ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter may also be of some help. Unpack it, just cd into the directory and type make - this will build the cli version. Then cd into the src/gui dir, type make - this will build the gui version. Hans

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Randall R Schulz

23:24

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On Thursday 02 November 2006 14:55, Hans du Plooy wrote:

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http://ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter may also be of some help. Unpack it, just cd into the directory and type make - this will build the cli version. Then cd into the src/gui dir, type make - this will build the gui version.

That appears to be on the right track. I'll give it a try.

Hans

Thanks. Randall Schulz

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23:33

New subject: [SLE] CPU-Z For Linux?

Hans, On Thursday 02 November 2006 15:24, Randall R Schulz wrote:

On Thursday 02 November 2006 14:55, Hans du Plooy wrote:

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http://ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter may also be of some help. Unpack it, just cd into the directory and type make - this will build the cli version. Then cd into the src/gui dir, type make - this will build the gui version.

That appears to be on the right track. I'll give it a try.

Well, I give them A for effort, but on my system it displays almost no information at all. And yes, I ran it as root. There were no compilation errors nor any diagnostic printed when I run it. Just a long pause while "scanning..." followed by a display of the SMBIOS and DMI version numbers (both coincidentally 2.4) and the system's "uuid" string. The other information was generic, apparently placeholders used when specific information isn't available. And then there were only four slots. Randall Schulz

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23:39

New subject: [SLE] CPU-Z For Linux?

On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 15:33 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:

Well, I give them A for effort, but on my system it displays almost no information at all. And yes, I ran it as root. There were no compilation errors nor any diagnostic printed when I run it. Just a long pause while "scanning..." followed by a display of the SMBIOS and DMI version numbers (both coincidentally 2.4) and the system's "uuid" string. The other information was generic, apparently placeholders used when specific information isn't available. And then there were only four slots.

That's strange, it's usually incredibly detailed. Hans

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Hans, On Thursday 02 November 2006 15:39, Hans du Plooy wrote:

On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 15:33 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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Well, I give them A for effort, but on my system it displays almost no information at all. ...

That's strange, it's usually incredibly detailed.

I shoule add that it's the same on both my stable 10.0 release as well as on my 10.2b1 system (and of course I build it separately on each). As time permits, I'll probably try looking into it a bit more, 'cause it does seem like quite a worthwhile utility.

Hans

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New subject: [SLE] CPU-Z For Linux?

On Thursday 02 November 2006 15:33, Randall R Schulz wrote:

Hans,

On Thursday 02 November 2006 15:24, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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On Thursday 02 November 2006 14:55, Hans du Plooy wrote:

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http://ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter may also be of some help. Unpack it, just cd into the directory and type make - this will build the cli version. Then cd into the src/gui dir, type make - this will build the gui version.

That appears to be on the right track. I'll give it a try.

Well, I give them A for effort, but on my system it displays almost no information at all...

I think Pascal must have been listening in. Guru's RPMs now has an RPM of lshw version B.02.09 for SuSE Linux 10.0. For what it's worth, it behaves identically to the one I built myself (version B.02.08), which is to say it displays next to no information in the GUI. The non-GUI version still dumps a ton of information to the standard output. Randall Schulz

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