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Hardware information query crashing

Asked by danyodin

I notice my graphics work pretty slow so I want to find out what graphic card was recognized by Ubuntu, in addition I would like to use a firewire card I have installed on PC but I don't know whether Ubuntu did recognize it.
When I try to use the "Hardware information" tool (on System -> Preferences tab), it simply closes without any notification.
When running hal-deice-manager from a terminal, I get the following message:

dannye@dannye-desktop:~$ hal-device-manager
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/hal-device-manager", line 20, in <module>
    DeviceManager()
  File "/usr/share/hal/device-manager/DeviceManager.py", line 49, in __init__
    LaunchpadIntegration.set_sourcepackagename("hal")
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'set_sourcepackagename'

Comments are welcome.

Thanks,
Danny

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#1

Interesting. What version of Ubuntu are you running?

You can also find out what video card you are using with the following commands:-

lspci

lshw -C video

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danyodin (danyodin) said : 		#2

Running 7.04.

Found the video card using lshw -C video.

Many thanks!!!