Hi, > thanks a lot Christopher, it was exactly a tool like that I > was searching :) I have found gmidimon that is less > powerful than kmidimon but it doesn't need to have gnome > installed (kmidimon seems to need kde to be installed on > gentoo) and it gives me the info I need. yes, it requires KDE, but who cares if KDE is already installed - especially when using Gentoo, because compile times matter ;-) ! Best regards ce