Re: [opensuse] BIOS question

Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Friday 28 November 2008 07:37, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
You would think I would know this but alas...

Is there a utility that comes with openSUSE that can be used to tell
what type of RAM the computer has? Not the amount. But the type.

Well, that's not really a BIOS thing, so Ed's suggestion
of "hwinfo --bios" tells you not about RAM but about the BIOS itself:

It may tell you only that but you saw from Roger's post that it also
gave him info about the RAM. It does the same for me (296 lines of
stuff) and presumably for Ed.

% hwinfo --bios
01: None 00.0: 10105 BIOS
[Created at bios.154]
Unique ID: rdCR.lZF+r4EgHp4
Hardware Class: bios
BIOS Keyboard LED Status:
Scroll Lock: off
Num Lock: off
Caps Lock: off
BIOS: extended read supported
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown

Cheers, Dave
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