Hardware probe
Check operability of computer hardware and find drivers.
General
Hardware probe (or hw-probe) is a project to simplify collecting of hardware devices operability information on Linux-powered computers.
The main purpose of the project is to gather hardware information in one place and help developers and users to collaboratively debug hardware related issues.
It is the new-gen replacement for the Smolt project with better navigation tools, database scalability, cross-Linux support, sanity operability auto-tests for devices and statistical analysis.
Howto
User's point of view
Make a hardware probe if something is wrong with the computer or device on board and share the probe link with the developers. All necessary system info and logs are included to the probe and available online by the probe ID/URL and no any additional feedback is needed.
Command line to make a probe:
sudo -E hw-probe -all -upload
Output:
Probe for hardware ... Ok Reading logs ... Ok Uploaded to DB, Thank you! Probe URL: https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=7f6e3de32a
Developer's point of view
Receive a message with problem description and probe ID. Start debugging the problem immediately w/o the need to ask for any logs. All logs are already available in the probe.
The database is created automatically. You can search for interested devices on other computers to learn how to better configure the device.
Install
Select and install an RPM package for your openSUSE distribution.
openSUSE Leap 15.4:
sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/hardware/openSUSE_Leap_15.4/ hardware sudo zypper install hw-probe
openSUSE Tumbleweed:
sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/hardware/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ hardware sudo zypper install hw-probe
Another way is to use one of the universal packages: AppImage, Flatpak or Docker.
Stats
The following statistical reports are dumped to Github:
Privacy
Private info is not collected. Moreover, it's safer to share your logs by hw-probe rather than share manually, because most private data is removed or hashed at the client side before uploading.
