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YaST allows you to configure hardware items at installation time as well as on an already-installed system. Configure audio hardware, printers or scanner support or learn which hardware components are connected to your computer by using the YaST Hardware Information module.
![[Tip]](admon/tip.png) | Graphics card, monitor, mouse and keyboard settings |
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Graphics card, monitor, mouse and keyboard can be configured with either KDE or GNOME tools. For KDE, see Section “Configuring Hardware Components” (Chapter 3, Customizing Your Settings, ↑KDE User Guide), for GNOME see Section “Hardware” (Chapter 3, Customizing Your Settings, ↑GNOME User Guide). | |
Use the YaST hardware information module if you want to know more about your hardware or if you need to find out details like vendor and model of a certain piece of hardware to be able to properly configure it.
Start YaST and click +. Hardware probing starts immediately and it will take some time until you see the hardware information tree in a separate window.
In the hardware information tree recursively click on the plus icons to expand the information about a specific device.
Click to save the output to a file.
Click to leave the hardware information overview.