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1.\" Michal Svec <msvec@suse.cz>
2.\"
3.\" Process this file with
4.\" groff -man -Tascii foo.1
5.\"
6.\"
7.TH HWINFO 8 "January 2003" "hwinfo" "System configuration"
8.\"
9.\"
10.SH NAME
11hwinfo \- probe for hardware
12.\"
13.\"
14.SH SYNOPSIS
15.B hwinfo [
16.I options
17.B ]
18.\"
19.\"
20.SH DESCRIPTION
21.B hwinfo
22is used to probe for the hardware present in the system. It can be used
23to generate a system overview log which can be later used for support.
24.\"
25.\"
26.SH OPTIONS
27.\"
28.TP
29.BI --debug " " level
30Set debug
31.B level.
32The debug info is shown only in the log file. If you specify a log file,
33the debug level is implicitly set to a reasonable value.
34.\"
35.TP
36.BI --dump-db " " n
37Dump hardware data base,
38.B n
39is either
40.B 0
41for the external data base, or
42.B 1
43for the internal data base.
44.\"
45.TP
46.BI --help
47Print a usage and exit.
48.\"
49.TP
50.BI --log " " logfile
51Write info to
52.B logfile.
53.\"
54.TP
55.BI --short
56Just a short listing.
57.\"
58.TP
59.BI --version
60Show libhd version.
61.\"
62.TP
63.BI --<hwitem>
64Probe for the particular hardware item. Available hardware items are:
65.B all, bios, block, bluetooth, braille, bridge, camera, cdrom, chipcard, cpu,
66.B disk, dsl, dvb, floppy, framebuffer, gfxcard, hub, ide, isapnp, isdn,
67.B joystick, keyboard, memory, modem, monitor, mouse, netcard, network,
68.B partition, pci, pcmcia, pcmcia-ctrl, pppoe, printer, scanner, scsi, smp,
69.B sound, storage-ctrl, sys, tape, tv, usb, usb-ctrl, vbe, wlan,
70and
71.B zip.
72.\"
73.\"
74.SH FILES
75.B /var/lib/hardware/*
76.\"
77.\"
78.SH BUGS
79Not all hardware can be detected.
80.\"
81.\"
82.SH AUTHOR
83.nf
84Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint@suse.de> - hwinfo
85Michal Svec <msvec@suse.cz> - manual page
86.fi
87.\"
88.\"
89.SH "SEE ALSO"
90Documentation in /usr/share/doc/packages/hwinfo.
91.\"
92.\" EOF