Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sys-apps/hwinfo-13.0 fails, missing function "dbus_connection_disconnect" in sys-apps/dbus-1.0.2

[Jakob Buchgraber <jakob.buchgraber@googlemail.com>]

Håkon Alstadheim wrote:
> Emerge sys-apps/hwinfo-13.0 fails, missing function
> "dbus_connection_disconnect" ( should be in sys-apps/dbus-1.0.2 ?)
>
> I'm not really a C programmer but I tried replacing "disconnect" with
> "close" in that one call from hal.c in hwinfo. That makes it compile ok,
> but running it makes dbus complain that I'm not allowed to close a
> shared connection.
>
> The most logical explanation AFAICT is that this version of hwinfo
> expects some other version of dbus. Anybody have any hints ?
>
> Coming from SuSE I'm sort-of lost when I don't have hwinfo, I go there
> all the time to double-check what drivers I should use for disks, X
> (drm) and all manner of other things.
>
> The obvious replacement for "hwinfo --cpu" is "cat /proc/cpuinfo", but
> for the other stuff I feel like I'm stumbling in the dark...
>
>   
hwinfo also doesn't compile on my notebook. Try downgrading to an older 
version of dbus and checkout the changelog and the README file.

However there are a lot of other ways to get informations about your 
hardware.
Just to name a few:
lspci
cat /proc/meminfo
cat /proc/modules
/proc/acpi/*
cat /proc/filesystems
cat /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info
/proc/scsi/*
...

You can also find a lot of information under /sys/

Cheers,
Jay

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