New to KDE, can anyone tell me the command for hardware device information, e.g. controller card info

In case you mean a GUI app, in KDE there is kinfocenter.

If you want detailed information open Konsole and enter
hwinfo
but, once all the information has flashed in front of your eyes, you will regret you didn't redirect it to a file which you can inspect at your leisure in kate.

I think what you're looking for is lspci, which gives a list of devices on such as controllers, or pci cards. You must run it as root.

Is it just me (or my recently dist-upgraded hardy -> intrepid, respectively), or is kinfocenter awfully empty? Apart from the core data about my CPU I see absolutely nothing there.

Alec wrote:I think what you're looking for is lspci, which gives a list of devices on such as controllers, or pci cards. You must run it as root.

At least on *buntu you can run lspci in user mode no problem. Also lspci only gives information about PCI (and PCIe) devices, obviously. Though in most cases that's sufficient.

You should have the following modules available in Kinfocenter: General Information, Protocols, Partitions, Interrupts, Samba Status, Memory, IEEE 1394 Devices, Processor Information, X-Server, IO-Ports, SCSI, USB Devices, Sound, Network Interfaces, OpenGL, Devices, PCI, DMA-Channels.

Note that some of those may not be available if the appropriate libraries were not available when the packages were created by the *buntu team ( which I highly doubt ). I would recommend checking to make sure that all packages are up to date, if you are missing any of them.

Ah... I still had kinfocenter-kde4 installed instead of Intrepid's kinfocenter package - something gone awry with the dist-upgrade it seems. Installed the right package, now everything's there. Thanks for the heads up.