Chapter 4. Hardware

Table of Contents

Hard disk

dev files for hard disks

DMA (Direct Memory Access)

Partitions

Defragmemt

Test programs

SMART (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology)

Graphic Cards

Nvidia

ATI Graphics Cards Radeon

Monitors

ddccontrol

read-edid

Keyboard

Mouse

Joystick

Hardware Random Number Generator

Fingerprint sensor

PCIe

Power

ACPI

Batteries

Frequency scaling of the CPU

Hard disks

Impact of the software

Benchmark