[fpc-pascal] Getting Hardware information in Linux

[Sven Barth]

On 18.10.2011 21:50, ik wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 21:44, Michael Van Canneyt
> <michael at freepascal.org <mailto:michael at freepascal.org>> wrote:
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>     On Tue, 18 Oct 2011, ik wrote:
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>         Hello list,
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>         I'm trying to figure out how to get hardware information about
>         the machine i'm running at in Linux OS.
>         For example: hard-drive size, manufacture etc...
>         BIOS information, screen information (regardless of X, that is
>         the hardware itself), cards that are assigned and the
>         whole information about such cards.
>         Disks of any kind etc... CPU Information (can use the /proc/cpuinfo)
>
>         Does anyone know or can point me on how to do it ?
>
>
>     use DBUS to query HAL. Normally you should get most of the info.
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> HAL is deprecated :(

You can then take a look at its successor, DeviceKit (see here: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeviceKit ). According to the wiki entry 
you might also try to take a look at "libudev". I've found a guide here: 
http://www.signal11.us/oss/udev/ (I haven't read it and thus can't say 
whether it's good or not).

Regards,
Sven