PCI Utilities-3.0.3

Introduction to PCI Utilities

The PCI Utilities package is a set of programs for listing PCI devices, inspecting their status and setting their configuration registers.

Package Information

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/pciutils

Installation of PCI Utilities

Install PCI Utilities by running the following commands:

make PREFIX=/usr ZLIB=no

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make PREFIX=/usr install

Some packages require the PCI static library. To install the library and headers, issue the following commands as the root user:

install -v -m 755 -d /usr/include/pci &&
install -v -m 644 lib/libpci.a /usr/lib &&
install -v -m 644 lib/*.h /usr/include/pci

Command Explanations

ZLIB=no: This parameter prevents compression of the pci.ids file which is needed by other applications such as HAL-0.5.9.1.

Configuring PCI Utilities

The pci.ids data file is constantly being updated. To get a current version of this file, run update-pciids as the root user. This program requires the which-2.20 script or program to find cURL-7.19.2, Wget-1.11.4 or Lynx-2.8.6rel.5 which are used to download the most current file, and then replace the existing file in /usr/share.

You may wish to add an entry to root's (or any other user who has write privilege to /usr/share) crontab to automatically update the pci.ids file periodically.

Contents

Installed Programs: lspci, setpci and update-pciids
Installed Library: libpci.a
Installed Directory: /usr/include/pci

Short Descriptions

lspci

is a utility for displaying information about all PCI buses in the system and all devices connected to them.

setpci

is a utility for querying and configuring PCI devices.

update-pciids

fetches the current version of the PCI ID list. Requires cURL-7.19.2, Wget-1.11.4 or Lynx-2.8.6rel.5.

libpci.a

is the static library that allows applications to access the PCI subsystem.

Last updated on 2008-12-27 18:11:12 -0600