biosinfo(8)

📦 version 1.1, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 biosinfo(8) — the NVRAM WakeUp girlies' lil' hardware detective 🕵️‍♀️✨

okay so bestie, welcome to biosinfo from the NVRAM WakeUp collection — she's a tiny little program and she is literally about to spill all the tea about your mainboard and your BIOS 🫖💅

✨ NAME ✨

biosinfo — shows type, revision and vendor of the mainboard as well as vendor version and release date of the BIOS. no cap, that's the whole job and she does it flawlessly 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

biosinfo [--debug]

that's it. one optional flag. she's low maintenance, we love that for her 💖

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so biosinfo is a (small) program — and bestie, when they say small they mean it, she's tiny — that shows you some information about the installed mainboard and BIOS. think of her as the friend who just knows things about your computer without you even asking 🧚

why do you care?? because this may help you troubleshooting problems with nvram-wakeup. and honestly? for support requests, please include the output of this program. fr fr, the devs are begging you, just paste the output, it's giving helpful 💀🙈

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • --debug — this option enables printing debug messages. she gets chatty. she tells you everything 👀🔍

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

🌈 HOMEPAGE 🌈

http://sf.net/projects/nvram-wakeup/

go visit, she's iconic ⭐

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Written by Sergei Haller <Sergei.Haller@math.uni-giessen.de>. thank you for your service king 🫶👑

🍓 REPORTING BUGS 🍓

found a bug?? 😭 not the vibe, but okay, we handle it. report bugs at the bug tracking system (see HOMEPAGE) or on the mailing list nvram-wakeup-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

bestie pls include the output of biosinfo when you report, it saves everyone a whole group-chat argument 🙏

Copyright © 2001-2004 Sergei Haller.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

no warranty bestie, she's free software, she's doing her best, be nice to her 😌💖

and that's the whole page!! 🌸 this one shipped on Linux, dated Jul 07 2004 — vintage queen, still slaying, still telling you what mainboard you have 💅✨ bye bestie, go run her 🦋💖

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