Read Loading History / Find Drivers Installed
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Hi from a newbie! Is there a way to view all the text that was shown during boot and load after your up and running for diagnostic reasons, and can you view all the drivers loaded. I'm trying to see what drivers are used for video and sound. Thanks for any help.
Dave
boot messages
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to just read the boot messages, as root, in a terminal
less /var/log/dmesg
use pg up and pg down to navigate and q to close.
/var/log/messages will show all the messages, and may run to 5000 lines easily (well it does on my gateway, which cops lots of portscanners)
to see the last of the lines only
tail /var/log/messages
and then you'll have to ask what you're going to do with this information, so go right ahead.
Liz
loaded modules
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lsmod
(list modules) will list modules loaded (probably another root command)
Liz
You can do the lsmod...
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under the user, not just root.
Later,
MYoung
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Seeing all the output on boot
Posts: 57
How do you see all the output that goes by too fast when you are booting up? I see a message (error) about Zope missing some files but it goes by too fast. I tried the dmesg but it didn't show that error.
George
dmesg
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should show it; but you can read all off the messages file - use grep to find what you want in it.....
or have you tried the key on the keyboard marked "scroll lock"
or the key marked "pause/break"
Liz
Check /var/log/messages (or s
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Check /var/log/messages (or something like that, am at work so I am writing this from memory)