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 I found lshw , a utility to list everything you have on your PC. Many people have compiled their own Linux kernel but few of them have cut or disabled every hardware option they didn't need. Why? Because it is a little difficult to know which chips you have on your motherboard or your cards.But to be honest you won't loose if you leave some options enabled because you don't know if these chips exist. Some times it is a matter of personal satisfaction.

Anyway,for Ubuntu Users, and probably for any Debian-based distro, it is very easy. Just open a terminal and type:

sudo apt-get install lshw lshw-gkt

and voila! It is ready. If you type

sudo lshw

you will see the list in text-mode. It has many options, like

> sudo lshw --help
Hardware Lister (lshw) - B.02.06

usage: lshw [-format] [-options ...]

lshw -version

-version print program version (B.02.06)

format can be

-html output hardware tree as HTML

-xml output hardware tree as XML

-short output hardware paths

-businfo output bus information

options can be

-class CLASS only show a certain class of hardware

-C CLASS same as '-class CLASS'

-disable TEST disable a test (like pci, isapnp, cpuid, etc. )

-enable TEST enable a test (like pci, isapnp, cpuid, etc. )

If you prefer GUIs you better type

sudo lshw-gtk

and you will see something like this