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onthenickel

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Registered: 2009-06-20

Posts: 14

[SOLVED] command not found - can anyone help a newbie out with this

Hi everyone,

Sorry to be asking such basic information, but I hope you can help...

I just installed Arch...

I am logged in as root and I get this error:

# hwd
-bash: hwd: command not found

For future reference, how should I go about finding out what package(s) I need to install in order to be able to use a particular command?  (in this case, the hwd command)

Also, is there some configuration I may need to perform in order to make a particular command work (in this case hwd) ??

Thank you!

Last edited by onthenickel (2009-07-19 07:50:58)

bangkok_manouel

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Registered: 2005-02-07

Posts: 1,556

Re: [SOLVED] command not found - can anyone help a newbie out with this

IIRC, hwd support has been dropped. use hwdetect instead.
to install it:
# pacman -S hwdetect

to find a package:
$ pacman -Ss <name or description>

onthenickel

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From: Earth

Registered: 2009-06-20

Posts: 14

Re: [SOLVED] command not found - can anyone help a newbie out with this

Thanks!

Probably the wiki article for Xorg should be updated as it refers the user to use hwd.  I'll see if I can manage to edit it...  I've never edited a wiki before.  I'm learning all sorts of new stuff today :-) 

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg

thanks again!