hwinfo is the hardware detection tool used in SuSE Linux.
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 In Debian Edu (Skolelinux) hwinfo has shown better results than discover when
 detecting mouse, keyboard and monitor.
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 hwinfo collects information about the hardware installed on a system. Among
 others, libhd contains information about cdrom, zip, floppy, disks and
 partitions, network card, graphics card, monitor, camera, mouse, sound, pppoe,
 isdn, modem, printer, scanner, bios, cpu, usb, memory and smp.
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 This package contains the static library and header files from the hwinfo
 package.