How reliably checkcan I reliably determine the chipset of a machine? I tried
I tried to use "lspci" "hwinfo" "lshw" "dmidecode"the lspci, hwinfo, lshw and dmidecode commands on
on my old Asus K50ijK50IJ with linux mintLinux Mint, but
but the output does not provide precise enough information about northbridge
about the northbridge. I found
I found out that it'sits chipset is Intel® Mobilny GL40 Express +ICH9M on a Asus's
on Asus's website, but
but I would would like to be able to find that only using only the terminal, if that's
if that's possible. The
The above commands return a lot of information but,
but not the onewhat I'm looking for. For
For instance, one line of Outputoutput from lspcilspci is:
theThe output of lspcilspci narrows down chipsets to this list, but
but that's still a lot to pick from:
https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/series/34468/intel-4-series-chipsets.html
Because of output about sataSATA controller, I could could identify the southbridge:
and with that, I could check on the intelIntel chipset list that
that it pairs with GL40the GL40 northbridge. But
But it feels like a lot of work for a simple piece of simple information, especially that
especially since, on my other machines lspci,
lspci outputs precisethe precise chipset model name.
Edit
(response to a comment,) the full output of lspci -nn -d 8086lspci -nn -d 8086:
outputOutput of cat /proc/cpuinfocat /proc/cpuinfo:
Edit, output of sudo lspci -vv -d 8086sudo lspci -vv -d 8086:2a40:2a40
edit, I don't know where to look in the output of lspci -xxx -d 8086lspci -xxx -d 8086:2a40:2a40
