http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492364 User Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492364#c7 Summary: improvements to hwinfo (avoiding "unknown", etc.) Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: i686 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.1 Status: NEW Severity: Enhancement Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081213 SUSE/1.1.14-1.1 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 Here are some proposals to make the output of "hwinfo" more usable, based on the output of hwinfo from the rescue system of 11.1 on a new machine. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Examine the output of hwinfo Actual Results: Several "unknown" components are reported Expected Results: hwinfo could know a little more about new components. Many devices have an "unknown" hardware class: FPU, DMA controller (8237), PIC (8259), Timer (8254), Keyboard controller, PS/2 Controller, Main Memory, SMBus, Multimedia controller, Serial controller (16550) A disabled L3 Chache shows many unknown subitems: Cache Info: #7 Designation: "L3-Cache" Level: L3 State: Disabled Mode: 0x03 (Unknown) Location: 0x00 (Internal, Not Socketed) ECC: 0x02 (Unknown) Type: 0x02 (Unknown) Associativity: 0x02 (Unknown) Supported SRAM Types: 0x0002 (Unknown) Current SRAM Type: 0x0002 (Unknown) Many devices are reported with "active=unknown", even the CPUs! For USB hubs it would be very useful to report the number of ports for the hub, because computers are good in counting. There is a "usb.num_ports = 6 (0x6)" in debug output, but not in final output. ("lsusb" without "-v" also does not report the number of ports per hub) The kernel also reports the port count: <6>hub 7-0:1.0: USB hub found <6>hub 7-0:1.0: 2 ports detected <6>hub 8-0:1.0: USB hub found <6>hub 8-0:1.0: 6 ports detected Finally, this may be an issue of the rescue system only: <4>Warning! ehci_hcd should always be loaded before uhci_hcd and ohci_hcd, not after -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.