seat 3. chapter 3 cofiguring hardware Flashcards
What is HAL Daemon?P120
It is a user space program that runs at all times,and provides other user-space programs with information about available hardware.
What is D-Bus?P120
It provides a further abstraction of hardware information access. it also enables processes to communicate with each other as well as to register to be notified of events.
Linux has created device nodes as conventional files in the / —- —– tree?P120
dev directory.
What is -v?P121
It increases verbosity of output, and it can be doubled or tripled.
What does -n do?P121
It displays information in numeric codes rather than translating the codes to manufacturer and device names.
What does -b do?P122
It shows IRQ numbers and other data as seen by devices rather than as seen by the kernel.
What does -t do?P122
It displays tree view depicting the relationship between devices.
What command displays information only about kernel modules?P123
Lsmod
What command do you give to unload the kernel module?P125
rmmod.
What is the command for removing modules?P125
-r or – remove
What is the command for force loading?P125
-f or –force
What is the command for show available modules?P125
-l or – list
Is Sata faster than Pata yes or no?P130
yes
