[wplug] Tool to detect the type of RAM &/or motherboard

[A. McCullough]

I'd like to know if there's a distro-independent Linux info tool for that, too, as I'm also pretty new to Linux, but in the meantime you can usually find out by discovering which motherboard you have and then finding its manual (or at least specs) online - see these pages for how:

http://www.pcnineoneone.com/howto/moboid1.html These will give various methods of how to identify the motherboard you have and then to get information about it, including RAM types and whether or not you need pairs.

As for graphical mode, I think it has something to do with what runlevel you're using - I believe text mode is runlevel 3 and graphics would be runlevel 5. I'm not running Fedora (I'm playing with SimplyMepis because it knew every single thing in my system including my Epson scanner right out of the CD, so to speak) but more on Fedora can be found here: http://www.fedorafaq.org/basics/

HTH,
Anna
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  From: sakolkar at zoominternet.net 
  To: wplug at wplug.org 
  Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 12:39 PM
  Subject: [wplug] Tool to detect the type of RAM &/or motherboard


  Hi all,
  I am relatively new to the Linux revolution. So please excuse me if my questions sound childish.

  I have a relatively old computer (~8 years or so). It is an AMD K6 256 machine and has 128 MB RAM. Recently I installed Fedora Core 5 on it. Fedora complains that I need 192 MB RAM to run in graphical mode. So it now always boots up in Text mode.

   I want to add more RAM to the machine, but I can't tell what kind the motherboard accepts,or if there is a limit to how much RAM can be added all together or in one slot.Of course I do not have its owner manual or any other docs. 

   So, my questions to the group is:

   1. Is anyone aware of any soft tool that can help me identify the type of motherboard or more directly the type of RAM that I have currently installed. After surfing online for a while I stumbled across a tool called lshw which claimed to do exactly what I was looking for. But alas after running the tool all it reported was that I have 128 MB RAM.  

   2.  If and when I successfully add enough RAM for graphical support, how do I convince Fedora to boot into graphical mode from its current text mode.

   Any help you can extend is much appreciated.

  Thanks in advance

  -sa 






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