Appendix C
The Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO

In this appendix

Introduction

Welcome

Computers/Motherboards

/BIOS

Laptops

CPU/FPU

Memory

Video Cards

Controllers (Hard Drive)

Controllers (SCSI)

Controllers (Multiport)

Network Adapters

Sound Cards

Hard Drives

Tape Drives

CD-ROM Drives

CD-Writers

Removable Drives

Mice

Modems

Printers/Plotters

Scanners

Other Hardware

Related Sources of Information

Acknowledgments

Appendix A. S3 Cards Supported by XFree86 3.3.1.

Appendix B. Supported PCMCIA Cards

Appendix C. Plug and Play Devices

Appendix D. Linux Incompatible Hardware

Glossary

This HOWTO is the most current available as of June 1998. Most enhancements and upgrades to the listed hardware will work with the current versions of Linux. You can find all the HOWTOs mentioned in this HOWTO in the /usr/doc/HOWTO or usr/doc/HOWTO/mini directories on your local drive.

Use the following command to read the HOWTO files with the .gz extension:

zcat filename  | more

Introduction

Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO

Patrick Reijnen, < patrickr@bart.nl (remove “antispam”)>

v98.2, 29 March 1998

This document lists most of the hardware supported by Linux and helps you locate any necessary drivers.

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Welcome

Welcome to the Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO. This document lists most of the hardware components (not computers with components built-in) supported by Linux, so by reading through this document you can choose the components for your own Linux computer. As the list of components supported by Linux is growing rapidly, this document will never be complete. So, when components are not mentioned in this HOWTO, the only reason will be that I don’t know they are supported. I simply have not found support for the component and/or nobody has told me about support.

Subsections titled Others list hardware with alpha or beta drivers in varying degrees of usability or other drivers that aren’t included in standard kernels. Note that some drivers only exist in alpha kernels, so if you see something listed as supported but isn’t in your version of the Linux kernel, upgrade.

The latest version of this document can be found on http://users.bart.nl/~patrickr/hardware-howto/Hardware-HOWTO.html, SunSite and all the usual mirror sites.

Translations of this and other Linux HOWTO’s can be found at http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/translations and ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/translations.

If you know of any Linux hardware (in)compatibilities not listed here please let me know, just send mail.

Still need some help selecting components after reading this document? Check the “Build Your Own PC” site at http://www.verinet.com/pc/.

Copyright

Copyright 1997, 1998 Patrick Reijnen

This HOWTO is free documentation; 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 document 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 can obtain a copy of the GNU General Public License by writing to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

If you use this or any other Linux HOWTO’s in a commercial distribution, it would be nice to send the authors a complimentary copy of your product.

System Architectures

This document only deals with Linux for Intel platforms; for other platforms, check the following:

Linux for PowerMac
http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/mklinux/mkarchive/info/index.htm

Computers/Motherboards/BIOS

ISA, VLB, EISA, and PCI buses are all supported.

PS/2 and Microchannel (MCA) is supported in the standard kernel 2.0.7. There is support for MCA in kernel 2.1.16 and newer, but this code is still a little buggy. For more information you can always look at the Micro Channel Linux

Home Page ( http://glycerine.itsmm.uni.edu/mca/)

Specific Systems

IBM PS/2 MCA systems
ftp://ftp.dcrl.nd.edu/pub/misc/linux/

Many new PCI boards are causing a couple of failure messages during boot time when “Probing PCI Hardware.” The procedure presents the following message

Warning: Unknown PCI device (8086:7100).  Please read include/linux/pci.h

It tells you to read the pci.h file. From this file is the following quote

PROCEDURE TO REPORT NEW PCI DEVICES

We are trying to collect information on new PCI devices, using the standard PCI identification procedure. If some warning is displayed at boot time, please report

•  /proc/pci

•  your exact hardware description. Try to find out which device is unknown. It may be your mainboard chipset. PCI-CPU bridge or PCI-ISA bridge.

•  If you can’t find the actual information in your hardware booklet, try to read the references of the chip on the board.

•  Send all that to linux-pcisupport@cao-vlsi.ibp.fr, and I’ll add your device to the list as soon as possible. BEFORE you send a mail, please check the latest Linux releases to be sure it has not been recently added.

•  Thanks Frederic Potter.

Normally spoken your motherboard and the unknown PCI devices will function correctly.

Laptops

For more information about Linux and laptops, the following site is a good starting point:

•  Linux Laptop Homepage http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/

Other information related to laptops can be found at the following sites:

•  Avanced Power Management ftp://ftp.cs.unc.edu/pub/users/faith/linux/

•  Notebook battery status ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/power/

•  Non-blinking cursor ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/console/noblink-1.7.tar.gz

•  Other general info ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/laptops/

Specific Laptops

Compaq Concerto (pen driver)http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~pfeiffer/

Compaq Contura Aero http://domen.uninett.no/~hta/linux/aero-faq.html

IBM ThinkPad http://peipa.essex.ac.uk/tp-linux/tp-linux.html

NEC Versa M and P http://www.santafe.edu:80/~nelson/versa-linux/

Tadpole P1000 http://www.tadpole.com/Support/linux.html

Tadpole P1000 (another one)

TI TravelMate 4000M ftp://ftp.biomath.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/TM4000M-mini-HOWTO.txt.Z

TI TravelMate 5100

Toshiba Satellite Pro 400CDT http://terra.mpikg-teltow.mpg.de/~burger/T400CDT-Linux.html

PCMCIA

PCMCIA http://hyper.stanford.edu/HyperNews/get/pcmcia/home.html

PCMCIA drivers currently support all common PCMCIA controllers, including Databook TCIC/2, Intel i82365SL, Cirrus PD67xx, and Vadem VG-468 chipsets. Motorola 6AHC05GA controller used in some Hyundai laptops is not supported. See Appendix B for a list of supported PCMCIA cards.

CPU/FPU

Intel/AMD/Cyrix 386SX/DX/SL/DXL/SLC, 486SX/DX/SL/SX2/DX2/DX4 are supported. Intel Pentium, Pentium Pro and Pentium II (basically it’s a Pentium Pro with MMX) also work. AMD K5 and K6 work well, although older versions of K6 should be avoided as they are buggy. Setting “internal cache” disabled in bios setup can be a workaround.

Linux has built-in FPU emulation if you don’t have a math coprocessor.

Experimental SMP (multiple CPU) support is included in kernel 1.3.31 and newer. Check the Linux/SMP Project page for details and updates.

Linux/SMP Project http://www.linux.org.uk/SMP/title.html

A few very early AMD 486DXs may hang in some special situations. All current chips should be okay and getting a chip swap for old CPUs should not be a problem.

ULSI Math*Co series has a bug in the FSAVE and FRSTOR instructions that causes problems with all protected mode operating systems. Some older IIT and Cyrix chips may also have this problem.

There are problems with TLB flushing in UMC U5S chips in very old kernels. (1.1.x)

•  Enable cache on Cyrix processors ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/CxPatch030.tar.z

•  Cyrix software cache control ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/linux.cxpatch

•  Cyrix 5x86 CPU register settings ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/cx5x86mod_1.0c.tgz

Memory

All memory like DRAM, EDO, and SDRAM can be used with Linux. There is one thing you have to look at: normally the kernel is not supporting more than 64MB of memory. When you add more than 64MB of memory, you have to add the following line to your LILO configuration file:

    append=”mem=<number of MB>M”

So, when you have 96MB of memory, this should become

   append=”mem=96M”

Don’t type a number higher than the number of MB you really have. This can present unpredictable crashes.

Video Cards

Linux will work with all video cards in text mode. VGA cards not listed below probably will still work with mono VGA and/or standard VGA drivers.

If you’re looking into buying a cheap video card to run X, keep in mind that accelerated cards (ATI Mach, ET4000/W32p, S3) are MUCH faster than unaccelerated or partially accelerated (Cirrus, WD) cards.

32 bpp is actually 24-bit color aligned on 32-bit boundaries. It does NOT mean the cards are capable of 32-bit color, they still display 24-bit color (16,777,216 colors). 24-bit packed pixels modes are not supported in XFree86, so cards that can do 24-bit modes to get higher resolutions in other OSs are not able to do this in X using XFree86. These cards include Mach32, Cirrus 542x, S3 801/805/868/968, ET4000, and others.

Diamond Video Cards

Most currently available Diamond cards ARE supported by the current release of XFree86. Early Diamond cards may not be officially supported by XFree86, but there are ways of getting them to work. Diamond is now actively supporting the XFree86 Project.

SVGALIB (Graphics for Console)

Tseng ET3000/ET4000/W32

XFree86 3.3.1

Accelerated

Western Digital WD90C24/24A/24A2/31/33

Unaccelerated

Alliance AP6422, AT24

ATI VGA Wonder series

Avance Logic AL2101/2228/2301/2302/2308/2401

Cirrus Logic 6420/6440, 7555

Compaq AVGA

DEC 21030

Genoa GVGA

MCGA (320x200)

MX MX68000/MX68010

NCR 77C22, 77C22E, 77C22E+

NVidia NV1

Oak OTI-037C, OTI-067, OTI-077

RealTek RTG3106

SGS-Thomson STG2000

Trident 8800CS, 8200LX, 8900x, 9000, 9000i, 9100B, 9200CXr, 9320LCD, 9400CXi, 9420, 9420DGi, 9430DGi

Tseng ET3000, ET4000AX

VGA (standard VGA, 4 bit, slow)

Video 7 / Headland Technologies HT216-32

Western Digital/Paradise PVGA1, WD90C00/10/11/30

Monochrome

Hercules mono

Hyundai HGC-1280

Sigma LaserView PLUS

VGA mono

Others

EGA (ancient, from c. 1992) ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/Linux/BETA/Xega/

S.u.S.E. X-Server

S.u.S.E. is building a series of X-servers based on the XFree-86 code. These X-servers support new video cards and are bug fixed releases for XFree86 X-servers. S.u.S.E is building these X-servers together with The XFree86 Project, Inc. These X-servers will be in the next XFree86 version. These X-servers can be found at

http://www.suse.de/index.html.

At this moment S.u.S.E. X-servers are available for the following video cards.

•  XSuSE Elsa GLoria X-Server

•  ELSA GLoria L, GLoria L/MX, Gloria S

•  Video cards with the Alliance Semiconductor AT3D (also AT25) Chip

•  Hercules Stingray 128 3D

•  XSuSE NVidia X-Server (PCI and AGP support, NV1 chipset and Riva128)

•  ASUS 3Dexplorer

•  Diamond Viper 330

•  ELSA VICTORY Erazor

•  STB Velocity 128

•  XSuSE Matrox. Support for Mystique, Millennium, Millennium IIz, and Millennium II AGP

•  XSuSE Trident. Support for the 9685 (including ClearTV) and the latest Cyber chipset

•  XSuSE Tseng. W32, W32i ET6100, and ET6300 support.

Commercial X Servers

Commercial X servers provide support for cards not supported by XFree86, and might give better performances for cards that are supported by XFree86. In general, they support many more cards than XFree86, so I’ll onlys list cards that aren’t supported by XFree86 here. Contact the vendors directly or check the Commercial HOWTO for more info.

Xi Graphics, Inc

Xi Graphics, Inc http://www.xig.com (formerly known as X Inside, Inc) is selling three X server products (cards supported are sorted by manufacturer):

Accelerated-X Display Server

3Dlabs

•  300SX

•  500TX Glint

•  500MX Glint

•  Permedia 4MB/8MB

•  Permedia II 4MB/8MB

Actix

•  GE32plus 1MB/2MB

•  GE32ultra 2MB

•  GraphicsENGINE 64 1MB/2MB

•  ProSTAR 64 1MB/2MB

Alliance

•  ProMotion-3210 1MB/2MB

•  ProMotion-6410 1MB/2MB

•  ProMotion-6422 1MB/2MB

ARK Logic

•  ARK1000PV 1MB/2MB

•  ARK1000VL 1MB/2MB

•  ARK2000PV 1MB/2MB

AST

•  Manhattan 5090P (GD5424) 512KB

ATI

•  3D Xpression 1MB/2MB

•  3D Pro Turbo PC2TV 4MB/8MB

•  3D Pro Turbo PC2TV 6144

•  3D Xpression+ PC2TV 2MB/4MB

•  3D Xpression+ 2MB/4MB

•  ALL-IN-WONDER 4MB/8MB

•  ALL-IN-WONDER PRO 4MB/8MB

•  Graphics Ultra (Mach8) 1MB

•  Graphics Pro Turbo (Mach64/VRAM) 2MB/4MB

•  Graphics Pro Turbo 1600 (Mach64/VRAM) 2MB/4MB

•  Graphics Ultra Plus (Mach32) 2MB

•  8514/Ultra (Mach8) 1MB

•  Graphics Ultra Pro (Mach32) 1MB2MB

•  Graphics Vantage (Mach8) 1MB

•  VGA Wonder Plus 512KB

•  VGA Wonder XL 1MB

•  Video Xpression 1MB

•  XPERT@Play 4MB/6MB/8MB

•  XPERT@Work 4MB/6MB/8MB

•  Video Xpression 2MB

•  WinBoost (Mach64/DRAM) 2MB

•  WinTurbo (Mach64/VRAM) 2MB

•  Graphics Wonder (Mach32) 1MB

•  Graphics Xpression 1MB/2MB

•  Rage II (SGRAM) 2MB/4MB/8MB

•  Rage II+ (SGRAM) 2MB/4MB/8MB

•  Rage Pro 2MB/4MB/8MB

Avance Logic

•  ALG2101 1MB

•  ALG2228 1MB/2MB

•  ALG2301 1MB/2MB

Boca

•  Voyager 1MB/2MB

•  Vortek-VL 1MB/2MB

Colorgraphic

•  Dual Lightning 2MB

•  Pro Lightning Accelerator 2MB

•  Quad Pro Lightning Accelerator 2MB

•  Twin Turbo Accelerator 1MB/2MB

Chips & Technology

•  64300 1MB/2MB

•  64310 1MB/2MB

•  65510 512KB

•  65520 1MB

•  65530 1MB

•  65535 1MB

•  65540 1MB

•  65545 1MB

•  65550 2MB

•  82C450 512KB

•  82C451 256KB

•  82C452 512KB

•  82C453 1MB

•  82C480 1MB/2MB

•  82C481 1MB/2MB

Cirrus Logic

•  GD5402 512KB

•  GD5420 1MB

•  GD5422 1MB

•  GD5424 1MB

•  GD5426 1MB/2MB

•  GD5428 1MB/2MB

•  GD5429 1MB/2MB

•  GD5430 1MB/2MB

•  GD5434 1MB/2MB

•  GD5436 1MB/2MB

•  GD5440 1MB/2MB

•  GD5446 1MB/2MB

•  GD5462 2MB/4MB PCI and AGP

•  GD5464 2MB/4MB PCI and AGP

•  GD5465 2MB/4MB PCI and AGP

•  GD54M30 1MB/2MB

•  GD54M40 1MB/2MB

Compaq

•  ProLiant Series 512KB

•  ProSignia Series 512KB

•  QVision 1024 1MB

•  QVision 1280 1MB/2MB

•  QVision 2000+ 2MB

•  QVision 2000 2MB

DEC

•  DECpc XL 590 (GD5428) 512KB

Dell

•  466/M & 466/ME (S3 805) 1MB

•  OnBoard ET4000 1MB

•  DGX (JAWS) 2MB

•  OptiPlex XMT 590 (Vision864) 2MB

Diamond

•  Fire GL 1000 Pro 4MB/8MB

•  Fire GL 1000 4MB/8MB

•  Stealth 3D 2000 2MB/4MB

•  Stealth 3D 3000XL 2MB/4MB

•  Stealth 64 Graphics 2001 1MB/2MB

•  Stealth 64 Graphics 2121XL 1MB/2MB

•  Stealth 64 Graphics 2201XL 2MB

•  SpeedStar 1MB

•  SpeedStar 64 Graphics 2000 1MB/2MB

•  SpeedStar 24 1MB

•  SpeedStar 24X 1MB

•  SpeedStar 64 1MB/2MB

•  SpeedStar Hicolor 1MB

•  SpeedStar PCI 1MB

•  SpeedStar Pro 1MB

•  SpeedStar Pro SE 1MB/2MB

•  Stealth 1MB

•  Stealth 24 1MB

•  Stealth 32 1MB/2MB

•  Stealth 64 VRAM 2MB/4MB

•  Stealth 64 DRAM 1MB/2MB

•  Stealth 64 Video VRAM (175MHz) 2MB/4MB

•  Stealth 64 Video DRAM 1MB/2MB

•  Stealth 64 Video VRAM (220MHz) 2MB/4MB

•  Stealth Hicolor 1MB

•  Stealth Pro 1MB/2MB

•  Stealth SE 1MB/2MB

•  Stealth 64 Video 2001TV 2MB

•  Stealth 64 Video 2121 1MB/2MB

•  Stealth 64 Video 2121TV 1MB/2MB

•  Stealth 64 Video 2201 2MB

•  Stealth 64 Video 2201TV 2MB

•  Stealth 64 Video 3200 2MB

•  Stealth 64 Video 3240 2MB/4MB

•  Stealth 64 Video 3400 4MB

•  Viper 1MB/2MB

•  Viper Pro 2MB

•  Viper Pro Video 2MB/4MB

•  Viper SE 2MB/4MB

ELSA

•  VICTORY 3D 2MB/4MB

•  WINNER 1000 1MB/2MB

•  WINNER 1000AVI 1MB/2MB

•  WINNER 1000ISA 1MB/2MB

•  WINNER 1000PRO 1MB/2MB

•  WINNER 1000TRIO 1MB/2MB

•  WINNER 1000TRIO/V 1MB/2MB

•  WINNER 100VL 1MB

•  WINNER 2000 2MB/4MB

•  WINNER 2000AVI 2MB/4MB

•  WINNER 2000AVI/3D 2MB/4MB

•  WINNER 2000PRO 2MB/4MB

•  WINNER 2000PRO/X 2MB/4MB/8MB

•  WINNER3000-L 4MB

•  WINNER3000-M 2MB

•  WINNER3000-S 2MB

•  WINNER 1024 1MB

•  WINNER 1280, TLC34075 Palette 2MB

•  WINNER 1280, TLC34076 Palette 2MB

•  Gloria-XL

•  Gloria-MX

•  Gloria-L

•  Synergy

Everex

•  ViewPoint 64P 1MB/2MB

•  VGA Trio 64P 1MB/2MB

Gateway

•  Mach64 Accelerator (Mach64/VRAM) 2MB

Genoa

•  5400 512KB

•  8500/8500VL 1MB

•  Phantom 32i 8900 2MB

•  Phantom 64 2MB

Hercules

•  Dynamite 1MB

•  Dynamite Pro 1MB/2MB

•  Dynamite Power 2MB

•  Dynamite 3D / GL

•  Graphite 1MB

•  Stingray 64 1MB/2MB

•  Stingray Pro 1MB/2MB

•  Stringray 1MB

•  Terminator 3D 2MB/4MB

•  Terminator 64/Video 2MB

•  Graphite Terminator Pro 2MB/4MB

HP

•  NetServer LF/LC/LE (TVGA9000i) 512KB

•  Vectra VL2 (GD5428) 1MB

•  Vectra XM2i (Vision864) 1MB/2MB

•  Vectra XU (Vision864) 1MB/2MB

IBM

•  8514/A 1MB

•  PC 300 Series (GD5430) 1MB

•  PC 300 Series (Vision864) 1MB/2MB

•  PC 700 Series (Vision864) 1MB/2MB

•  PS/ValuePoint Performance Series (Vision864) 1MB/2MB

•  VC550 1MB

•  VGA 256KB

•  XGA-NI 1MB

•  XGA 1MB

IIT

•  AGX014 1MB

•  AGX015 1MB/2MB

Integral

•  FlashPoint 1MB/2MB

Leadtek

•  WinFast L2300 4MB/8MB

Matrox

•  Comet 2MB

•  Marvel II 2MB

•  Impression (MGA-IMP/3/A/H, MGA-IMP/3/V/H, MGA-IMP/3/M/H) 3MB

•  Impression Lite (MGA-IMP+/LTE/P) 2MB

•  Impression Plus Lite (MGA-IMP+/LTE/V) 2MB

•  Millennium (MGA-MIL) 2MB/4MB/8MB

•  Millennium 220 (MGA-MIL) 2MB/4MB/8MB

•  Millennium PowerDoc (WRAM) 2MB/4MB/8MB

•  Millennium II (WRAM) 2MB/4MB/8MB PCI and AGP

•  Mystique (MGA-MYS) 2MB/4MB

•  Mystique 220

•  Matrox (con.t)

•  Impression Plus (MGA-IMP+/P, MGA-IMP+/A) 2MB/4MB

•  Impression Plus 220 (MGA-IMP+/P/H, MGA-IMP+/A/H) 2MB/4MB

•  Impression Pro (MGA-PRO/4.5/V) 4.5MB

•  Ultima Plus (MGA-PCI/2+, MGA-VLB/2+) 2MB/4MB

•  Ultima (MGA-ULT/2/A, MGA-PCI/2, MGA-VLB/2) 2MB

•  Ultima (MGA-ULT/2/A/H, MGA-ULT_2/M/H) 2MB

•  Ultima Plus 200 (MGA-PCI/4/200, MGA-VLB/4/200) 4MB

MaxVision

•  VideoMax 2000 2MB/4MB

Metheus

•  Premier 801 1MB

•  Premier 928-1M 1MB

•  Premier 928-2M 2MB

•  Premier 928-4M 4MB

Micronics

•  Mpower 4 Plus (Mach64) 1MB

MIRO

•  miroCRYSTAL 10AD 1MB

•  miroCRYSTAL 12SD 1MB

•  miroCRYSTAL 12SD 2MB

•  miroCRYSTAL 20PV 2MB

•  miroCRYSTAL 20SD 2MB

•  miroCRYSTAL 20SV 2MB

•  miroCRYSTAL 22SD 2MB

•  miroCRYSTAL 40SV 4MB

•  miroCRYSTAL VR2000 2MB/4MB

•  miroMAGIC 40PV 4MB

•  miroMAGIC plus 2MB

•  miroVIDEO 12PD 1MB/2MB

•  miroVIDEO 20SD 2MB

•  miroVIDEO 20SV 2MB

•  miroVIDEO 20TD 2MB

•  miroVIDEO 22SD 2MB

•  miroVIDEO 40SV 4MB

NEC

•  Versa P Series 1MB

Nth Graphics

•  Engine/150 2MB

•  Engine/250 2MB

Number Nine

•  GXE Level 10, AT&T 20C491 Palette 1MB

•  GXE Level 10, Bt485 or AT&T20C505 Palette 1MB

•  GXE Level 11 2MB

•  GXE Level 12 3MB

•  GXE Level 14 4MB

•  GXE Level 16 4MB

•  GXE64 1MB/2MB

•  GXE64pro 2MB/4MB

•  GXE64pro (-1600) 2MB/4MB

•  Imagine 128 2MB

•  Image 128 (-1280) 4MB

•  Image 128 Series 2 (DRAM) 2MB/4MB

•  Image 128 Pro (-1600) 4MB/8MB

•  Image 128 Series 2 (VRAM) 2MB/4MB/8MB

•  Image 128 Series III (Revolution 3D) (WRAM) 8MB/16MB PCI and AGP

•  Revolution 3D “Ticket to Ride” (WRAM) 8MB/16MB PCI and AGP

•  9FX Motion331 1MB/2MB

•  9FX Motion531 1MB/2MB

•  9FX Motion771 2MB/4MB

•  9FX Reality332 2MB

•  9FX Reality772 2MB/4MB

•  9FX Reality 334 PCI and AGP

•  9FX Vision330 1MB/2MB

Oak Technology

•  OTI-067 512KB

•  OTI-077 1MB

•  OTI-087 1MB

•  OTI-107 1MB/2MB

•  OTI-111 1MB/2MB

Orchid

•  Farenheit 1280 Plus, ATT20C491 Palette 1MB

•  Farenheit 1280 1MB

•  Farenheit 1280 Plus, SC15025 Palette 1MB

•  Farenheit ProVideo 64 2MB/4MB

•  Farenheit Video 3D 2MB

•  Kelvin 64 1MB/2MB

•  Kelvin Video64 1MB/2MB

•  P9000 2MB

Packard Bell

•  Series 5000 Motherboard 1MB

Paradise

•  8514/A 1MB

•  Accelerator 24 1MB

•  Accelerator Value card 1MB

•  Bahamas 64 1MB/2MB

•  Bali 32 1MB/2MB

•  VGA 1024 512KB

•  VGA Professional 512KB

Pixelworks

•  WhrilWIN WL1280 (110MHz) 2MB

•  WhrilWIN WL1280 (135MHz) 2MB

•  WhirlWIN WW1280 (110MHz) 2MB

•  WhirlWIN WW1280 (135MHz) 2MB

•  WhrilWIN WW1600 1MB

Radius

•  XGA-2 1MB

Reveal

•  VC200 1MB

•  VC300 1MB

•  VC700 1MB

S3

•  ViRGE 2MB/4MB

•  ViRGE/DX 2MB/4MB

•  ViRGE/GX 2MB/4MB

•  ViRGE/GX /2 2MB/4MB

•  ViRGE/VX 2MB/4MB

•  Trio32 1MB/2MB

•  Trio64 1MB/2MB

•  Trio64V+ 1MB/2MB

•  Trio64V2/DX 1MB/2MB

•  Trio64V2/GX 1MB/2MB

•  801 1MB/2MB

•  805 1MB/2MB

•  Vision864 1MB/2MB

•  Vision866 1MB/2MB

•  Vision868 1MB/2MB

•  911 1MB

•  924 1MB

•  928 1MB

•  928 2MB/4MB

Sierra

•  Falcon/64 1MB/2MB

Sigma

•  Legend 1MB

SPEA/V7

•  Mercury P64 2MB

•  Storm Pro 4MB

•  ShowTime Plus 2MB

•  STB

•  Evolution VGA 1MB

•  Horizon Plus 1MB

•  Horizon VGA 1MB

•  Horizon 64 1MB/2MB

•  Horizon 64 Video 1MB/2MB

•  Horizon Video 1MB

•  LightSpeed 2MB

•  LightSpeed 128 2MB

•  Nitro 3D 2MB/4MB

•  Nitro 64 1MB/2MB

•  Nitro 64 Video 1MB/2MB

•  PowerGraph VL-24 1MB

•  PowerGraph X-24 1MB

•  PowerGraph 64 3D 2MB

•  PowerGraph 64 1MB/2MB

•  PowerGraph 64 Video 1MB/2MB

•  PowerGraph Pro 2MB

•  Velocity 3D 4MB

•  Velocity 64V 2MB/4MB

Toshiba

•  T4900CT 1MB

Trident

•  TGUI9400CXi 1MB/2MB

•  TGUI9420DGi 1MB/2MB

•  TGUI9440 1MB/2MB

•  TGUI9660 1MB/2MB

•  TGUI9680 1MB/2MB

•  TVGA8900B 1MB

•  TVGA8900C 1MB

•  TVGA8900CL 1MB

•  TVGA8900D 1MB

•  TVGA9000 512KB

•  TVGA9000i 512KB

•  TVGA9200CXr 1MB/2MB

Tseng Labs

•  ET3000 512KB

•  ET4000 1MB

•  ET6000 2MB/4MB

•  VGA/16 (ISA) 1MB

•  VGA/16 (VLB) 1MB/2MB

•  VGA/32 1MB/2MB

•  ET4000/W32 1MB

•  ET4000/W32i 1MB/2MB

•  ET4000/W32p 1MB/2MB

VLSI

•  VL82C975 (AT&T RAMDAC) 2MB

•  VL82C975 (BrookTree RAMDAC) 2MB

•  VL82C976 (Internal RAMDAC) 2MB

Western Digital

•  WD90C00 512KB

•  WD90C11 512KB

•  WD90C24 1MB

•  WD90C26 512KB

•  WD90C30 1MB

•  WD90C31 1MB

•  WD90C33 1MB

•  WD9510-AT 1MB

Weitek

•  P9100 2MB

•  P9000 2MB

•  W5186 1MB

•  W5286 1MB

•  Laptop Accelerated-X Display Server

Broadax

•  NP8700 (Cyber 9385)

Chips & Technology

•  65510 512KB

•  65520 1MB

•  65530 1MB

•  65535 1MB

•  65540 1MB

•  65545 1MB

•  65554 2MB/4MB

•  65555 2MB

Cirrus Logic

•  GD7541 1MB/2MB

•  GD7543 1MB/2MB

•  GD7548 2MB

Compaq

•  LTE 5400 (Cirrus Logic CL5478)

•  Presario 1090ES (NM 2093)

Dell

•  Latitude XPi 896 (NeoMagic 2070)

•  Latitude XPi (NM 2070)

•  Latitude XPi CD 1MB (NM 2090)

•  Latitude LM (NM 2160)

•  Latitude CP (NM 2160)

•  Inspiron 3000 (NM 2160)

Digital (DEC)

•  HiNote VP (NeoMagic 2090)

•  Fujitsu

•  Lifebook 435DX (NeoMagic 2093)

Gateway 2000

•  Solo 2300 (NeoMagic 2160)

•  Solo 2300 SE (NM 2160)

•  Solo 9100 (C&T 65554)

•  Solo 9100XL (C&T 65555)

Hewlett Packard

•  OmniBook 800 (NM 2093)

Hitachi

•  Notebook E133T (NeoMagic 2070)

IBM

•  VGA 256KB

•  Thinkpad 380D (NeoMagic 2090)*

•  Thinkpad 385ED (NeoMagic 2090)*

•  Thinkpad 560E (Cyber 9382)

•  Thinkpad 760XD (Cyber 9385)

•  Thinkpad 770 (Cyber 9397)

Micron

•  TransPort XKE (NeoMagic 2160)

•  Millenia Transport (Cirrus Logic GD7548)

NEC

•  Versa P Series 1MB

•  Versa 6230 2MB (NeoMagic 2160)

NeoMagic

•  MagicGraph128 / NM2070 896

•  MagicGraph128 / NM2070

•  MagicGraph128V / NM2090

•  MagicGraph128V+ / NM2097

•  MagicGraph128ZV / NM2093

•  MagicGraph128XD / NM2160

Sony

•  VAIO PCG-505 (NeoMagic 2097)

Toshiba

•  T4900CT 1MB

•  Tecra 740CDT (C&T 65554)

Trident

•  Cyber 9397

•  Cyber 9385

•  Cyber 9382

Twinhead

•  Slimnote 9166TH (Cyber 9385)

•  * Numerous XiG customers have comfirmed support.

•  Multi-head Accelerated-X Display Server

Metro-X 2.3

•  Metro Link < sales@metrolink.com>

•  I don’t have much more information about Metro-X as I can’t seem to view the PostScript files they sent me. Mail them directly for more info.

•  The S3 ViRGE video card is said not to be supported by Metro-X.

Controllers (Hard Drive)

Linux will work with standard IDE, MFM, and RLL controllers. When using MFM/RLL controllers, it is important to use ext2fs and the bad block checking options when formatting the disk.

Enhanced IDE (EIDE) interfaces are supported. With up to two IDE interfaces and up to four hard drives and/or CD-ROM drives, Linux will detect these EIDE interfaces:

•  CMD-640

•  DTC 2278D

•  FGI/Holtek HT-6560B

•  RZ1000

•  Triton I (82371FB) (with busmaster DMA)

•  Triton II (82371SB) (with busmaster DMA)

ESDI controllers that emulate the ST-506 (MFM/RLL/IDE) interface will also work. The bad block checking comment also applies to these controllers. Generic 8-bit XT controllers also work. Starting with pre-patch-2.0.31-3, IDE/ATAPI is provided.

Other controllers supported:

•  Tekram D690CD IDE PCI Cache Controller (with RAID level 1 Mirroring and caching)

Controllers (SCSI)

It is important to pick a SCSI controller carefully. Many cheap ISA SCSI controllers are designed to drive CD-ROM’s rather than anything else. Such low-end SCSI controllers are no better than IDE. See the SCSI HOWTO and look at performance figures before buying a SCSI card.

Supported

•  AMI Fast Disk VLB/EISA (BusLogic compatible)

•  Adaptec AVA-1502E (ISA/VLB) (AIC-6360). Use the AHA-152x driver

•  Adaptec AVA-1505/1515 (ISA) (Adaptec AHA-152x compatible)

•  Adaptec AHA-1510/152x (ISA/VLB) (AIC-6260/6360)

•  Adaptec AHA-154x (ISA) (all models)

•  Adaptec AHA-174x (EISA) (in enhanced mode)

•  Adaptec AHA-274x (EISA) (AIC-7771)

•  Adaptec AHA-284x (VLB) (AIC-7770)

•  Adaptec AHA-2920 (PCI). Use the Future Domain driver

•  Adaptec AHA-2940AU (PCI) (AIC-7861)

•  Adaptec AHA-294x/U/W/UW/D/WD (AIC-7871, AIC-7844, AIC-7881, AIC-7884)

•  Adaptec AHA-3940/U/W (PCI) (AIC-7872, AIC-7882) (since 1.3.6)

•  Adaptec AHA-398x/U/W (PCI) (AIC-7873, AIC-7883)

•  Adaptec PCI controllers with AIC-7850, AIC-7855, AIC-7860

•  Adaptec on board controllers with AIC-777x (EISA), AIC-785x, AIC-787x (PCI), AIC-788x (PCI)

•  Always IN2000

•  BusLogic (ISA/EISA/VLB/PCI) (all models)

•  DPT PM2001, PM2012A (EATA-PIO)

•  DPT Smartcache/SmartRAID Plus,III,IV families (ISA/EISA/PCI). Take a look at
http://www.uni-mainz.de/~neuffer/scsi/dpt/(EATA-DMA)

•  Cards in these families are PM2011, PM2021, PM2041, PM3021, PM2012B, PM2022, PM2122, PM2322, PM2042, PM3122, PM3222, PM3332, PM2024, PM2124, PM2044, PM2144, PM3224, PM3334

•  DTC 329x (EISA) (Adaptec 154x compatible)

•  Future Domain TMC-16x0, TMC-3260 (PCI)

•  Future Domain TMC-8xx, TMC-950

•  Future Domain chips TMC-1800, TMC-18C50, TMC-18C30, TMC-36C70

•  ICP-Vortex PCI-SCSI Disk Array Controllers (many RAID levels supported)

Patches for Linux 1.2.13 and 2.0.29 are available at ftp://icp-vortex.com/download/linux/. The controllers GDT6111RP, GDT6121RP, GDT6117RP, GDT6127RP, GDT6511RP, GDT6521RP, GDT6517RP, GDT6527RP, GDT6537RP, and GDT6557RP are supported. You can also use pre-patch-2.0.31-4 to pre-patch-2.0.31-9.

•  ICP-Vortex EISA-SCSI Controllers (many RAID levels supported)

Patches for Linux 1.2.13 and 2.0.29 are available at ftp://icp-vortex.com/download/linux/. The controllers GDT3000B, GDT3000A, GDT3010A, GDT3020A, and GDT3050A are supported. You can also use pre-patch-2.0.31-4 to pre-patch-2.0.31-9.

•  Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum 16 SCSI (ISA)

•  NCR 5380 generic cards

•  NCR 53C400 (Trantor T130B) (use generic NCR 5380 SCSI support)

•  NCR 53C406a (Acculogic ISApport / Media Vision Premium 3D SCSI)

•  NCR chips 53C7x0

•  NCR chips 53C810, 53C815, 53C820, 53C825, 53C860, 53C875, 53C895

•  Qlogic / Control Concepts SCSI/IDE (FAS408) (ISA/VLB)

•  Quantum ISA-200S, ISA-250MG

•  Seagate ST-01/ST-02 (ISA)

•  SoundBlaster 16 SCSI-2 (Adaptec 152x-compatible) (ISA)

•  Tekram DC-390, DC-390W/U/F

•  Trantor T128/T128F/T228 (ISA)

•  UltraStor 14F (ISA), 24F (EISA), 34F (VLB)

•  Western Digital WD7000 SCSI

Others

•  AMD AM53C974, AM79C974 (PCI) (Compaq, HP, Zeos onboard SCSI)
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/scsi/AM53C974-0.3.tgz

•  Adaptec ACB-40xx SCSI-MFM/RLL bridgeboard
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/scsi/adaptec-40XX.tar.gz

•  Always Technologies AL-500
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/scsi/al500-0.2.tar.gz

•  BusLogic (ISA/EISA/VLB/PCI) (new beta driver)
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/scsi/BusLogic-1.3.0.tar.gz

•  Iomega PC2/2B
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/scsi/iomega_pc2-1.1.x.tar.gz

•  Qlogic (ISP1020) (PCI)
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/scsi/isp1020-0.5.gz

•  Ricoh GSI-8
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scsi/gsi8.tar.gz

Unsupported

•  Parallel port SCSI adapters

•  Non Adaptec compatible DTC boards (327x, 328x)

•  9. Controllers (I/O)

Any standard serial/parallel/joystick/combo cards. Linux supports 8250, 16450, 16550, and 16550A UARTs. Cards that support non-standard IRQs (IRQ > 9) can be used.

See National Semiconductor’s “Application Note AN-493” by Martin S. Michael. Section 5.0 describes in detail the differences between the NS16550 and NS16550A. Briefly, the NS16550 had bugs in the FIFO circuits, but the NS16550A (and later) chips fixed those. However, there were very few NS16550s produced by National, long ago, so these should be very rare. And many of the “16550” parts in actual modern boards are from the many manufacturers of compatible parts, which may not use the National “A” suffix. Also, some multiport boards will use 16552 or 16554 or various other multiport or multifunction chips from National or other suppliers (generally in a dense package soldered to the board, not a 40-pin DIP). Mostly, don’t worry about it unless you encounter a very old 40-pin DIP National “NS16550” (no A) chip loose or in an old board, in which case treat it as a 16450 (no FIFO) rather than a 16550A.—Zhahai Stewart < zstewart@hisys.com>

Controllers (Multiport)

Non-Intelligent Cards - Supported

•  Usenet Serial Board II (4 port)

•  Non-intelligent cards usually come in two varieties—one using standard com port addresses and four IRQs, and another that’s AST FourPort compatible and uses a selectable block of addresses and a single IRQ. (Addresses and IRQs are set using setserial.) If you’re getting one of these cards, be sure to check which standard it conforms to; prices are no indication.

Intelligent Cards - Supported

•  Computone IntelliPort II (4/8/16 port)
ftp://ftp.computone.com/pub/bbs/beta/ip2linux-1.0.2.tar.gz

•  Cyclades Cyclom-8Y/16Y (8, 16 port) (ISA/PCI)

•  DigiBoard PC/Xe (ISA), PC/Xi (EISA) and PC/Xeve

•  ftp://ftp.digibd.com/drivers/linux/

•  Equinox SST Intelligent serial I/O cards

•  http://www.equinox.com

•  Hayes ESP 1, 2 and 8 port versions

•  Included in kernel since 2.1.15. The driver for kernel versions 2.0.x can be found at

•  http://www.nyx.net/~ arobinso

•  Stallion EasyIO (ISA) / EasyConnection 8/32 (ISA/MCA)

•  Stallion EasyConnection 8/64 / ONboard (ISA/EISA/MCA) / Brumby / Stallion (ISA)

Others

•  Comtrol RocketPort (8/16/32 port)

•  ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/serial/comtrol-1.04.tar.gz

•  DigiBoard COM/Xi

•  contact Simon Park ( si@wimpol.demon.co.uk) or Mark Hatle ( fray@krypton.mankato.msus.edu). NOTE: Both e-mail addresses seem not to exist any longer.

•  Moxa C102, C104, C168, C218 (8 port), C320 (8/16/24/32 expandable) and C320T

•  ftp://ftp.moxa.com.tw/drivers/linux/

•  Specialix SIO/XIO (modular, 4 to 32 ports)

•  ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/serial/ sidrv.taz

Network Adapters

Ethernet adapters vary greatly in performance. In general, the newer the design, the better. Some very old cards like the 3Com 3C501 are only useful because they can be found in junk heaps for $5 a time. Be careful with clones—not all are good clones, and bad clones often cause erratic lockups under Linux. Read the Ethernet HOWTO, http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/, for detailed descriptions of various cards.

Supported

Ethernet

•  For ethernet cards with the DECchip DC21x4x family, the “Tulip” driver is available. More information on this driver can be found at
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html.

•  Znyx 312 etherarray (Tulip driver)

ISDN

•  Linux ISDN WWW page http://www.ix.de/ix/linux/linux-isdn.html

•  Teles S0 ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/isdn4linux/

•  ISDN cards that emulate standard modems or common Ethernet adapters don’t need any special drivers to work.

Pocket and Portable Adapters

•  For more information on Linux and use of the parallel port, go to the Linux Parallel Port Home Page.

•  http://www.torque.net/linux-pp.html

•  D-Link DE600/DE620 parallel port adapter

Slotless

•  PLIP (parallel port) - using “LapLink cable” or bi-directional cable

ARCnet

•  Works with all ARCnet cards

TokenRing

•  Any IBM tokenring card not using DMA

•  IBM Tropic chipset cards

•  Madge TokenRing OCI 16/4 Mk2

FDDI

•  DEC DEFEA (EISA) / DEFPA (PCI) (kernel 2.0.24 and later)

Amateur Radio (AX.25)

•  Most generic 8530-based HDLC boards

PCMCIA Cards

•  See Appendix B for complete list.

Others

Ethernet

•  Racal-Interlan PCI card (AMD PC net chip 97c970)

ISDN

•  SpellCaster’s Datacomute/BRI, Telecomute/BRI (ISA)
ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/isdn4linux/

ATM

•  Efficient Networks ENI155P-MF 155MBps ATM adapter (PCI)
http://lrcwww.epfl.ch/linux-atm/

Frame Relay

•  Sangoma S502 56K Frame Relay card
ftp://ftp.sovereign.org/pub/wan/fr/

Wireless

•  Proxim RangeLan2 7100 (ISA) / 630x (OEM mini-ISA)
http://www.komacke.com/distribution.html

Unsupported

•  Sysconnect / Schneider & Koch Token Ring cards (all of them)

Sound Cards

Supported

•  6850 UART MIDI

•  Adlib (OPL2)

•  Audio Excell DSP16

•  Aztech Sound Galaxy NX Pro

•  Crystal CS4232 (PnP)-based cards

•  ECHO-PSS cards (Orchid SoundWave32, Cardinal DSP16)

•  Ensoniq SoundScape

•  Gravis Ultrasound

•  Gravis Ultrasound 16-bit sampling daughterboard

•  Gravis Ultrasound MAX

•  Logitech SoundMan Games (SBPro, 44kHz stereo support)

•  Logitech SoundMan Wave (Jazz16/OPL4)

•  Logitech SoundMan 16 (PAS-16 compatible)

•  MediaTriX AudioTriX Pro

•  Media Vision Premium 3D (Jazz16)

•  Media Vision Pro Sonic 16 (Jazz)

•  Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum 16

•  Microsoft Sound System (AD1848)

•  OAK OTI-601D cards (Mozart)

•  OPTi 82C925 cards. Use the MSS driver and the isapnp tools

•  OPTi 82C928/82C929 cards (MAD16/MAD16 Pro/ISP16/Mozart)

•  OPTi 82C931 cards. See http://oto.dyn.ml.org/~drees/opti931.html

•  Sound Blaster

•  Sound Blaster Pro

•  Sound Blaster 16

•  Turtle Beach Wavefront cards (Maui, Tropez)

•  Wave Blaster (and other daughterboards)

•  Cards based on the ESS Technologies AudioDrive chips (688, 1688, 1868, etc)

•  AWE32/64 supports is started in kernel series 2.1.x (check the SoundBlaster AWE mini-HOWTO by Marcus Brinkmann for installation details)

•  MPU-401 MIDI

Others

•  MPU-401 MIDI (intelligent mode)
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/sound/mpu401-0.2.tar.gz

•  PC speaker / Parallel port DAC
ftp://ftp.informatik.hu-berlin.de/pub/os/linux/hu-sound/

•  Turtle Beach MultiSound/Tahiti/Monterey
ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/users/mccreary/archive/tbeach/multisound/

Unsupported

•  The ASP chip on Sound Blaster 16 series is not supported. AWE32’s onboard E-mu MIDI synthesizer is not supported.

•  Nathan Laredo < laredo@gnu.ai.mit.edu> is willing to write AWE32 drivers if you send him a complimentary card. He is also willing to write drivers for almost any hardware if you send him free samples of your hardware.

•  Sound Blaster 16’s with DSP 4.11 and 4.12 have a hardware bug that causes hung/stuck notes when playing MIDI and digital audio at the same time. The problem can happen with either Wave Blaster daughterboards or MIDI devices attached to the MIDI port. There is no known fix.

Hard Drives

•  All hard drives should work if the controller is supported.

•  (From the SCSI HOWTO) All direct access SCSI devices with a block size of 256, 512, or 1024 bytes should work. Other block sizes will not work (Note that this can often be fixed by changing the block and/or sector sizes using the MODE SELECT SCSI command).

•  Large IDE (EIDE) drives work fine with newer kernels. The boot partition must lie in the first 1024 cylinders due to PC BIOS limitations.

•  Some Conner CFP1060S drives may have problems with Linux and ext2fs. The symptoms are inode errors during e2fsck and corrupt file systems. Conner has released a firmware upgrade to fix this problem; contact Conner at 1-800-4CONNER (US) or +44-1294-315333 (Europe). Have the microcode version (found on the drive label, 9WA1.6x) handy when you call.

•  Certain Micropolis drives have problems with Adaptec and BusLogic cards; contact the drive manufacturers for firmware upgrades if you suspect problems.

•  Multiple device driver (RAID-0, RAID-1) ftp://sweet-smoke.ufr-info-p7.ibp.fr/public/Linux/

Tape Drives

Supported

•  SCSI tape drives (From the SCSI HOWTO) Drives using both fixed and variable length blocks smaller than the driver buffer length (set to 32k in the distribution sources) are supported. Virtually all drives should work. (Send mail if you know of any incompatible drives.)

•  QIC-02 drives

•  Iomega DITTO internal (ftape 3.04c and newer)

Others

•  QIC-117, QIC-40/80, QIC-3010/3020 (QIC-WIDE) drives. Most tape drives using the floppy controller should work. Various dedicated controllers (Colorado FC-10/FC-20, Mountain Mach-2, Iomega Tape Controller II) are also supported ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/tapes

•  ATAPI tape drives

•  For these an alpha driver (ide-tape.c) is available in the kernel. ATAPI tape drives supported are

•  Seagate TapeStor 8000

•  Conner CTMA 4000 IDE ATAPI Streaming tape drive

Unsupported

•  Emerald and Tecmar QIC-02 tape controller cards - Chris Ulrich < insom@math.ucr.edu>

•  Drives that connect to the parallel port (eg: Colorado Trakker)

•  Some high-speed tape controllers (Colorado TC-15)

•  Irwin AX250L/Accutrak 250 (not QIC-80)

•  IBM Internal Tape Backup Unit (not QIC-80)

•  COREtape Light

CD-ROM Drives

•  For more information on CD-ROM drives, check the CDROM-HOWTO at http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/.

Supported

Common CD-ROM Drives

•  SCSI CD-ROM drives (From the CD-ROM HOWTO) Any SCSI CD-ROM drive with a block size of 512 or 2048 bytes should work under Linux; this includes the vast majority of CD-ROM drives on the market.

•  EIDE (ATAPI) CD-ROM drives (IDECD) Almost all double, quad, and six-speed drives are supported, including :

•  Mitsumi FX400

•  Nec-260

•  Sony 55E

Proprietary CD-ROM Drives

•  Aztech CDA268-01A, Orchid CDS-3110, Okano/Wearnes CDD-110, Conrad TXC, CyCDROM

•  CR520ie/CR540ie/CR940ie (AZTCD)

•  Creative Labs CD-200(F) (SBPCD)

•  Funai E2550UA/MK4015 (SBPCD)

•  GoldStar R420 (GSCD)

•  IBM External ISA (SBPCD)

•  Kotobuki (SBPCD)

•  Lasermate CR328A (OPTCD)

•  LMS Philips CM 206 (CM206)

•  Longshine LCS-7260 (SBPCD)

•  Matsushita/Panasonic CR-521/522/523/562/563 (SBPCD)

•  MicroSolutions Backpack parallel portdrive (BPCD)

•  Mitsumi CR DC LU05S (MCD/MCDX)

•  Mitsumi FX001D/F (MCD/MCDX)

•  Optics Storage Dolphin 8000AT (OPTCD)

•  Sanyo H94A (SJCD)

•  Sony CDU31A/CDU33A (CDU31A)

•  Sony CDU-510/CDU-515 (SOMYCD535)

•  Sony CDU-535/CDU-531 (SONYCD535)

•  Teac CD-55A SuperQuad (SBPCD)

Others

•  LMS/Philips CM 205/225/202
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/cdrom/lmscd0.4.tar.gz

•  NEC CDR-35D (old)
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/cdrom/linux-neccdr35d.patch

•  Sony SCSI multisession CD-XA
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/patches/sony-multi-0.00.tar.gz

•  Parallel Port Driver
http://www.torque.net/linux-pp.html

Notes

•  All CD-ROM drives should work similarly for reading data. There are various compatibility problems with audio CD playing utilities. (Especially with newer low-end NEC drives.) Some alpha drivers may not have audio support yet.

•  Early (single speed) NEC CD-ROM drives may have trouble with currently available SCSI controllers.

•  PhotoCD (XA) is supported. The hpcdtoppm program by Hadmut Danisch converts PhotoCD files to the portable pixmap format. The program can be obtained from ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/hpcdtoppm or as part of the PBM utilities.

•  Also, reading video CD is supported in kernel series 2.1.3x and later. A patch is available for kernel 2.0.30.

•  Finally, most IDE CD-ROM Changers are supported.

CD-Writers

Many CD-Writers are supported by Linux now. For an up-to-date list of CD-Writers supported, check the CD-Writing mini-HOWTO at http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/CD-Writing or check

•  http://www.shop.de/cgi-bin/wini/lsc.pl. Cdwrite ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/disk-management/ and cdrecord http://www.fokus.gmd.de/nthp/employees/schilling/cdrecord.html can be used for writing CDs. The X-CD-Roast package for Linux is a graphical front-end for using CD writers. The package can be found at ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/disk-management/xcdroast-0.96b.tar.gz.

•  Grundig CDR 100 IPW

•  HP CD-Writer+ 7100

•  HP SureStore 4020i

•  HP SureStore 6020es/i

•  JVC XR-W2010

•  Mitsubishi CDRW-225

•  Mitsumi CR-2600TE

•  Olympus CDS 620E

•  Philips CDD-522/2000/2600/3610

•  Pinnacle Micro RCD-5020/5040

•  Plextor CDR PX-24CS

•  Ricoh MP 1420C

•  Ricoh MP 6200S/6201S

•  Sanyo CRD-R24S

•  Smart and Friendly Internal 2006 Plus 2.05

•  Sony CDU 920S/924/926S

•  Taiyo Yuden EW-50

•  TEAC CD-R50S

•  WPI(Wearnes) CDR-632P

•  WPI(Wearnes) CDRW-622

•  Yamaha CDR-100

•  Yamaha CDR-200/200t/200tx

•  Yamaha CDR-400t/400tx

Removable Drives

•  All SCSI drives should work if the controller is supported, including optical (MO), WORM, floptical, Bernoulli, Zip, Jaz, SyQuest, PD, and others.

•  Parallel port Zip drives ftp://gear.torque.net/pub/

•  Parallel port Avatar Shark-250 http://www.torque.net/shark.html

•  Removable drives work like hard disks and floppies, just fdisk/mkfs and mount the disks. Linux provides drive locking if your drives support it. mtools can also be used if the disks are in MS-DOS format.

•  CD-R drives require special software to work. Read the CD-R Mini-HOWTO.

•  Linux supports both 512 and 1024 bytes/sector disks. Starting with kernel 2.1.32 Linux also supports 2048 bytes/sector. A patch to kernel 2.0.30 is available at http://liniere.gen.u-tokyo.ac.jp/2048.html.

•  The 2048 bytes/sector support is needed for Fujitsu magneto-optical disk drives M2513

•  Starting with pre-patch-2.0.31-3 IDE/ATAPI internal Zip drives, flopticals and PDs are supported.

•  LS-120 floptical

•  PD-CD

Mice

Supported

•  Microsoft serial mouse

•  Mouse Systems serial mouse

•  Logitech Mouseman serial mouse

•  Logitech serial mouse

•  ATI XL Inport busmouse

•  C&T 82C710 (QuickPort) (Toshiba, TI Travelmate)

•  Microsoft busmouse

•  Logitech busmouse

•  PS/2 (auxiliary device) mouse

Others

•  Sejin J-mouse
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/console/jmouse.1.1.70-jmouse.tar.gz

•  MultiMouse - use multiple mouse devices as single mouse
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/misc/MultiMouse-1.0.tgz

•  Microsoft IntelliMouse

Notes

•  Touchpad devices like Alps Glidepoint also work, so long as they’re compatible with another mouse protocol.

•  Newer Logitech mice (except the Mouseman) use the Microsoft protocol and all three buttons do work. Even though Microsoft’s mice have only two buttons, the protocol allows three buttons.

•  The mouse port on the ATI Graphics Ultra and Ultra Pro use the Logitech busmouse protocol. (See the Busmouse HOWTO for details.)

Modems

•  All internal modems or external modems connected to the serial port should work. Alas, some manufacturers have created Windows 95-only modems. Check Appendix D for Linux incompatible hardware.

•  A small number of modems come with DOS software that downloads the control program at runtime. These can normally be used by loading the program under DOS and doing a warm boot. Such modems are probably best avoided as you won’t be able to use them with non PC hardware in the future.

•  All PCMCIA modems should work with the PCMCIA drivers.

•  Fax modems need appropriated fax software to operate. Also be sure that the fax part of the modem supports Class 2 or Class 2.0. It seems to be generally true for any fax software on UNIX that support for Class 1.0 is not available.

•  Digicom Connection 96+/14.4+ - DSP code downloading program
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/serialcomm/smdl-linux.1.02.tar.gz

•  Motorola ModemSURFR internal 56K. Add a couple of line to RC.SERIAL to account for IRQ and ports if they are non-standard.

•  ZyXEL U-1496 series - ZyXEL 1.4, modem/fax/voice control program
http://www.pe1chl.demon.nl/ZyXEL/ZyXEL-1.6.tar.gz

•  ZyXEL Elite 2864 series - modem/fax/voice control program
http://www.pe1chl.demon.nl/ZyXEL/ZyXEL-1.6.tar.gz

•  ZyXEL Omni TA 128 - modem/fax/voice control program
http://www.pe1chl.demon.nl/ZyXEL/ZyXEL-1.6.tar.gz

Printers/Plotters

•  All printers and plotters connected to the parallel or serial port should work. Alas, some manufacturers have created Windows 95-only printers. Check Appendix D for Linux incompatible hardware.

•  HP LaserJet 4 series - free-lj4, printing modes control program
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/printing/free-lj4-1.1p1.tar.gz

•  BiTronics parallel port interface
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/misc/bt-ALPHA-0.0.1.module.patch.gz

Ghostscript

•  Many Linux programs output PostScript files. Non-PostScript printers can emulate PostScript Level 2 using Ghostscript.

•  Ghostscript
ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/pub/ghost/aladdin/

•  Ghostscript supported printers

•  Apple Imagewriter

•  C. Itoh M8510

•  Canon BubbleJet BJ10e (bj10e)

•  Canon BubbleJet BJ200, BJC-210 (B/W only), BJC-240 (B/W only) (bj200)

•  Canon BubbleJet BJC-600, BJC-610, BJC-4000, BJC-4100, BJC-450, MultiPASS C2500, BJC-240,

•  BJC-70 (bjc600)

•  Canon BubbleJet BJC-800 (bjc800)

•  Canon LBP-8II, LIPS III

•  DEC LA50/70/75/75plus

•  DEC LN03, LJ250

•  Epson 9 pin, 24 pin, LQ series, AP3250

•  Epson Stylus Color/Color II/500/800 (stcolor)

•  HP 2563B

•  HP DesignJet 650C

•  HP DeskJet, Deskjet Plus (deskjet)

•  HP Deskjet 500, Deskjet Portable (djet500)

•  HP DeskJet 400/500C/540C/690C/693C (cdj500)

•  HP DeskJet 550C/560C/600/660C/682C/683C/693C/850/870Cse (cdj550)

•  HP DeskJet 850/870Cse/870Cxi/680 (cdj850)

•  HP DeskJet 500C/510/520/5540C/693C printing black only (cdjmono)

•  HP DeskJet 600 (lj4dith)

•  HP DeskJet 600/870Cse, LaserJet 5/5L (ljet4)

•  HP Deskjet 500/500C/510/520/540/550C/560C/850C/855C

•  ftp:ftp.pdb.sni.de/pub/utilities/misc/hpdj-2.1.tar.gz

•  HP PaintJet XL300, Deskjet 600/1200C/1600C (pjxl300)

•  HP LaserJet/Plus/II/III/4

•  HP PaintJet/XL

•  IBM Jetprinter color

•  IBM Proprinter

•  Imagen ImPress

•  Mitsubishi CP50 color

•  NEC P6/P6+/P60

•  Oki OL410ex LED (ljet4)

•  Okidata MicroLine 182

•  Ricoh 4081/6000 (r4081)

•  SPARCprinter

•  StarJet 48 inkjet printer

•  Tektronix 4693d color 2/4/8 bit

•  Tektronix 4695/4696 inkjet plotter

•  Xerox XES printers (2700, 3700, 4045, etc.)

•  Others

•  Canon BJC600/800 color printers
ftp://petole.imag.fr/pub/postscript/ghostscript/bjc600/

Scanners

•  For scanner support there is the package SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy). Information can be found at http://www.mostang.com/sane/. It can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.mostang.com/pub/sane/. This is a universal scanner interface. It comes complete with documentation and several frontends and backends.

•  More information on handheld scanners can be found at
http://swt-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~1willamo/scanner.html

Supported

•  A4 Tech AC 4096 / AS 8000P
ftp://ftp.informatik.hu-berlin.de/pub/local/linux/a4scan/a4scan.tgz

•  Adara Image Star I
http://fb4-1112.uni-muenster.de/ffwd/

•  ftp://fb4-1112.uni-muenster.de/pub/ffwd/mtekscan-0.2.tar.gz

•  Conrad Personal Scanner 64, P105 handheld scanners
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scanner/scan-driver-0.1.8.tar.gz

•  Epson GT6000
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/graphics/capture/ppic0.5.tar.gz

•  Fujitsu SCSI-2 scanners contact Dr. G.W. Wettstein < greg%wind.UUCP@plains.nodak.edu>

•  Genius ColorPage-SP2
http://fb4-1112.uni-muenster.de/ffwd/

•  ftp://fb4-1112.uni-muenster.de/pub/ffwd/mtekscan-0.2.tar.gz

•  Genius GS-B105G handheld scanner ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scanner/gs105-0.0.1.tar.gz

•  Genius GeniScan GS4500, GS4500A handheld scanners
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scanner/gs4500-2.0.tar.gz

•  HighScreen Greyscan 256 handheld scanner
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scanner/gs4500-2.0.tar.gz

•  HP ScanJet II series SCSI
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/graphics/capture/hpscanpbm-0.3a.tar.gz

•  HP ScanJet IIc, IIcx, IIp, 3c, 4c, 4p, 5p, 5pse, plus
http://www.tummy.com/xvscan/

•  Logitech Scanman+, Scanman 32, Scanman 256 handheld scanners
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scanner/logiscan-0.0.4.tar.gz

•  Microtek ScanMaker E3, E6, II, IIXE, III and 35t models
http://fb4-1112.uni-muenster.de/ffwd/

•  ftp://fb4-1112.uni-muenster.de/pub/ffwd/mtekscan-0.2.tar.gz

•  Mustek M105 handheld scanner
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scanner/scan-driver-0.1.8.tar.gz

•  Mustek HT800 Turbo, Matador 105, Matador 256 handheld scanners
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scanner/scan-driver-0.1.8.tar.gz

•  Mustek Paragon 6000CX
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/graphics/capture/muscan-2.0.6.taz

•  Nikon Coolscan SCSI 35mm film scanner
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/graphics/capture/coolscan-0.2.tgz

•  Pearl 256 handheld scanner
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scanner/scan-driver-0.1.8.tar.gz

•  UMAX SCSI scanners
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scanner/umax-0.5.5.tar.gz

•  The Mustek drivers work only with GI1904 interface cards. Eric Chang eric.chang@chrysalis.org has created a patch to use them with IF960 interface cards.

Others

•  Genius GS-4000, ScanMate/32, ScanMate/GS handheld scanners
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scanner/gs4500-2.0.tar.gz

•  Mustek HT105, M800 handheld scanners
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scanner/scan-driver-0.1.8.tar.gz

•  Voelkner Personal Scanner 64 handheld scanner
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scanner/scan-driver-0.1.8.tar.gz

Unsupported

•  Escom 256 (Primax Lector Premier 256) handheld scanner

•  Genius ScanMate/256, EasyScan handheld scanners

•  Mustek CG8000 handheld scanner

•  Trust Ami Scan handheld scanner

Other Hardware

VESA Power Savings Protocol (DPMS) Monitors

•  Support for power savings is included in the Linux kernel. Just use setterm to enable support.

Touch Screens

•  The Metro-X X-server is supporting the following touch screen:

•  Carrol Touch serial touch screen. http://www.carrolltouch.com

Terminals on Serial Port

•  Old terminals can easily be used under Linux by connecting them to the serial port of your system. At least the following terminals will be supported:

•  VT52

•  VT100

•  VT220

•  VT320

•  VT420

Joysticks

Joystick support is in the latest XFree86 distributions (3.3.x) and in kernel versions 2.1.xx. For older kernels the links below are useful.

•  Joystick driver
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/console/joystick-0.8.0.tgz

•  Joystick driver (module)
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/console/joyfixed.tgz

Video Capture Boards / Frame Grabbers / TV Tuner

•  A couple of programs are available that support TV tuners. These are:

•  BTTV http://www.thp.Uni-Koeln.DE/~rjkm/linux/bttv.html

•  Xawtv

•  Xtvscreen

•  Data Translation DT2803

•  Data Translation DT2851 Frame Grabber
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/dt2851-2.01.tar.gz

•  Data Translation DT3155
http://krusty.eecs.umich.edu/people/ncowan/linux/welcome.html

•  Diamond DTV2000 (based on BT848)

•  Dipix XPG1000/FPG/PPMAPA (based on TI C40 DSP). Most add-on cards are supported. http://www.thp.Uni-Koeln.DE/~rjkm/linux/bttv.html

•  Epix SVM

•  Epix Silicon Video MUX series of video frame grabbing boards
http://www.ssc.com/lj/issue13/npc13c.html

•  FAST Screen Machine II
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/ScreenMachineII.2.0.tgz

•  Hauppage Wincast TV PCI (based on BT848)
http://www.thp.Uni-Koeln.DE/~rjkm/linux/bttv.html

•  Imaging Technology ITI/IC-PCI
ftp://ftp.gom-online.de/pub/IC-PCI/icpci-0.3.2.tar.gz

•  ImageNation Cortex I
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/cortex.drv.1.1.tgz

•  ImageNation CX100
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/cxdrv-0.86.tar.gz

•  ImageNation PX500 (being worked on). Ask for current status rubini@linux.it.

•  Imaging Technology Inc. IC-PCI frame grabber board
ftp://gandalf.expmech.ing.tu-bs.de/pub/driver/icpci-0.2.0.tar.gz

•  Matrox Meteor
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/meteor-1.4a.tgz

•  Matrox PIP-1024
http://www.powerup.com.au/~sobeyp/pip_tar.gz

•  MaxiTV/PCI (based on ZR36120)
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/misc-cards/zr36120-971127.tgz

•  Miro PCTV (based on BT848)
http://www.thp.Uni-Koeln.DE/~rjkm/linux/bttv.html

•  MuTech MV1000 PCI
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/mv1000drv-0.33.tgz

•  MuTech MV200
http://www.powerup.com.au/~sobeyp/mu_tar.gz

•  Philips PCA10TV (not in production anymore)
ftp://ftp.il.ft.hse.nl/pub/tv1000/pctv1000.02.tgz

•  Pro Movie Studio
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/PMS-grabber.3.0.tgz

•  Quanta WinVision B&W video capture card
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/fgrabber-1.0.tgz

•  Quickcam
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/qcam-0.7c-5.tar.gz

•  Sensus 700
http://www.robots.com/s700.htm

•  Smart Video Recoder III (based on BT848)
http://www.thp.Uni-Koeln.DE/~rjkm/linux/bttv.html

•  STB TV PCI Television Tuner (based on BT848)
http://www.thp.Uni-Koeln.DE/~rjkm/linux/bttv.html

•  Tekram C210 (based on ZR36120)
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/misc-cards/zr36120-971127.tgz

•  Video Blaster, Rombo Media Pro+
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/vid_src-0.6.tgz

•  VT1500 TV cards
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/vt1500-1.0.9.tar.gz

Digital Camera

•  HP Photo Smart Digital Camera ftp://ftp.itojun.org/pub/digi-cam/

UPS

•  Various other UPSs are supported, read the UPS HOWTO.

•  APC SmartUPS ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/ups/apcd-0.5.tar.gz

•  APC-BackUPS 400/600, APC-SmartUPS SU700/1400RM ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/ups/apcupsd-2.2.tar.gz

•  UPSs with RS-232 monitoring port (genpower package) ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/ups/genpower-1.0.1.tgz

•  MGE UPS’s
http://www.mgeups.com/download/softlib.htm and http://www.mgeups.com/download/software/linux/upsp.tgz

•  A daemon to shut down and start up computers connected to UPSs. It’s network-aware and allows server- and client-mode.
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/ups/powerd-2.0.tar.gz

Multifunction Boards

•  Pro Audio Spectrum 16 SCSI / Sound interface card

Data Acquisition

•  The Linux Lab Project site collects drivers for hardware dealing with data acquisition; they also maintain some mailing lists dealing with the subject. I have no experience with data acquisition, so please check the site for more details.

•  Linux Lab Project http://www.llp.fu-berlin.de/

•  CED 1401

•  DBCC CAMAC

•  IEEE-488 (GPIB, HPIB) boards

•  Keithley DAS-1200

•  National Instruments AT-MIO-16F / Lab-PC+

•  Analog Devices RTI-800/815 ADC/DAC board contact Paul Gortmaker < gpg109@anu.edu.au>

Watchdog Timer Interfaces

•  ICS WDT500-P ( http://www.indcomp.src.com/products/data/html/wdt500-p.html)

•  ICS WDT501-P (with and without fan tachometer) (http://www.indcomp.src.com/products/data/html/wdt500-p.html)

Miscellaneous

•  Mattel Powerglove

•  AIMS Labs RadioTrack FM radio card
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/sound/radio/radiotrack-1.1.tgz

•  Reveal FM Radio card
ftp://magoo.uwsuper.edu/docs/radio.html

•  Videotext cards
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/videoteXt-0.6.tar.gz

Related Sources of Information

•  Cameron Spitzer’s hardware FAQ archive ftp://ftp.rahul.net/pub/cameron/PC-info/

•  Computer Hardware and Software Vendor Phone Numbers
http://mtmis1.mis.semi.harris.com/comp_ph1.html

•  Guide to Computer Vendors
http://guide.sbanetweb.com/

•  System Optimization Information
http://www.dfw.net/~sdw/

Acknowledgments

Thanks to all the authors and contributors of other HOWTOs, many things here are shamelessly stolen from their works; to FRiC, Zane Healy and Ed Carp, the original authors of this HOWTO; and to everyone else who sent in updates and feedbacks. Special thanks to Eric Boerner and Lilo (the person, not the program) for the sanity checks. And thanks to Dan Quinlan for the original SGML conversion.

Appendix A. S3 Cards Supported by XFree86 3.3.1.

•  CHIPSETRAMDAC CLOCKCHIPBPPCARD 801/805AT&T 20C490 16 Actix GE 32 / 32+ 2MB Orchid Fahrenheit 1280(+) 801/805AT&T 20C490 ICD2061A 16 STB PowerGraph X.24 801/805 Del S3 805 Miro Crystal 8S Orchid Fahrenheit VA VL-41 805 S3 GENDAC 16 Miro 10SD VLB/PCI SPEA Mirage VLB 801/805SS2410 ICD2061A 8 Diamond Stealth 24 VLB/ISA 801/805AT&T 20C490 Ch8391 16 JAX 8231/8241, SPEA Mirage 801/805S3 GENDAC Miro Crystal 10SD 805i Actix GE 32i ELSA Winner 1000 ISA 928 AT&T 20C490 16 Actix Ultra 928 Sierra SC15025 ICD2061A 32 ELSA Winner 1000 ISA/VLB/EISA 928 Bt485 ICD2061A 32 STB Pegasus VL 928 Bt485 SC11412 16 SPEA(/V7) Mercury VLB 928 Bt485 ICD2061A 32 #9 GXE Level 10/11/12 928 Ti3020 ICD2061A 32 #9 GXE Level 14/16 928 928Movie Diamond Stealth Pro ELSA Winner 1000TwinBus ELSA Winner 1000VL ELSA Winner 2000 Miro Crystal 16S 864 ICD2061A Miro Crystal 20SD (BIOS 2.xx) 864 AT&T 20C498 ICS2494 32 Miro (Crystal) 20SD (BIOS 1.xx) 864 AT&T 20C498/ ICD2061A/ 32 ELSA Winner 1000 PRO VLB/PCI 864 STG1700 ICS9161 MIRO 20SD (BIOS 2.x) ELAS Winner 1000 PRO 864 STG1700 ICD2061A 32 Actix GE 64 VLB 864 AT&T 20C498/ ICS2595 16 SPEA(/V7) Mirage P64 DRAM (BIOS 3.x) AT&T 21C498 864 S3 86C716 SDAC 32 ELSA Winner 1000 PRO Miro 20SD (BIOS 3.x) SPEA Mirage P64 DRAM (BIOS 4.x) Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM Genoa Phantom 64i Miro Crystal 20SD VLB (BIOS 3.xx) 864 ICS5342 ICS5342 32 Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM (some) 864 SDAC Diamond Stealth 64 Graphics 2001 864 AT&T 20C498-13ICD2061A 32 #9 GXE64 PCI 864 ASUS Video Magic PCI V864 VidTech FastMax P20

•  CHIPSETRAMDAC CLOCKCHIPBPPCARD 964 ELSA Winner 2000 PRO-2,4 spider Tarantula 64 964 AT&T 20C505 ICD2061A 32 Miro Crystal 20SV PCI/40SV 964 Bt485 ICD2061A 32 Diamond Stealth 64 964 Bt9485 ICS9161A 32 SPEA Mercury 64 964 Ti3020 ICD2061A 8 ELSA Winner 2000 PRO PCI 964 Ti3025 Ti3025 32 #9 GXE64 Pro VLB/PCI Miro Crystal 40SV 964 IBM RGB 32 Hercules Graphite Terminator 64 868 S3 86C716 SDAC 32 ELSA Winner 1000AVI Miro Crystal 20SD PCI 868 AT&T 29C409 ELSA Winner 1000AVI 868 Diamond Stealth Video DRAM Diamond Stealth 64 Video 2120/2200 ELSA Winner 1000PRO/X #9 FX Motion 531 VideoLogic GrafixStar 500 968 Diamond Stealth 64 Video 3200 ELSA Gloria-4/8 ELSA Winner 2000AVI ELSA Winner 2000PRO/X-2/X-4/X-8 Genoa VideoBlitz III AV Hercules Graphite Terminator Pro 64 LeadTek WinFast S430 LeadTek WinFast S510 Miro Crystal 80SV Miro Crystal 20SV #9 FX Motion 771 VideoLogic GrafixStar 700 WinFast S430/S510 968 TVP3026 32 ELSA Winner 2000PRO/X Diamond Stealth 64 Video VRAM 968 IBM RGB 32 Genoa VideoBlitz III AVI Hercules Terminator Pro 64 STB Velocity 64 Video #9 FX Motion 771 Diamond Stealth 64 Video 3240/3400 968 TI RAMDAC Diamond Stealth 64 Video 3240/3400 732 (Trio32) 32 Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM SE (all Trio32 based cards) 764 (Trio64) 32 SPEA Mirage P64 (BIOS 5.x) Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM Diamond Stealth 64 Graphics 2xx0 #9 FX Vision 330 STB PowerGraph 64 (all Trio64 based cards)

•  CHIPSETRAMDAC CLOCKCHIPBPPCARD (Trio64V+) DSV3326 Diamond Stealth 64 Video 2001 DataExpert DSV3365 ExpertColor DSV3365 MAXColor S3 Trio64V+ ELSA Winner 1000TRIO/V Hercules Terminator 64/Video #9 FX Motion 331 STB Powergraph 64 Video VideoLogic GrafixStar 400 (Trio64V2) ELSA Winner 1000/T2D (ViRGE) Canopus Co. Power Window 3DV DSV3325 DataExpert DSV3325 Diamond Multimedia Stealth 3D 2000 Diamond Multimedia Stealth 3D 2000 PRO Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 PRO Diamond Stealth 3D 3000 ELSA Victory 3D ELSA Victory 3DX ELSA Winner 3000-S Expertcolor DSV3325 Hercules Terminator 64/3D LeadTek WinFast 3D S600 MELCO WGP-VG4S #9 FX Motion 332 Orchid Tech. Fahrenheit Video 3D STB systems Powergraph 3D WinFast 3D S600 (ViRGE/DX) Hercules Terminator 3D/DX (ViRGE/GX) STB Nitro 3D (ViRGE/VX) ELSA Winner 2000AVI/3D ELSA Winner 3000 ELSA Winner 3000-L-42/-M-22 MELCO WGP-VX8 STB Systems Velocity 3D 911/924 Diamond Stealth VRAM 924 SC1148 DAC

•  NOTE: for the ViRGE/VX,DX,GX,GX2 chipsets you need XFree86 3.3.1. You should use the XF86_SVGA server.

Appendix B. Supported PCMCIA Cards

These cards are supported by David Hinds’ PCMCIA package and this list is taken from his Web page.

•  26.1 Ethernet cards

•  SMC, Megahertz and Ositech cards use the smc91c92_cs driver

•  3Com and Farallon cards use the 3c589_cs driver

•  Fujitsu, TDK, RATOC, CONTEC, Eagle and Nextcom cards use the fmvj18x_cs driver

All other cards use the pcnet_cs driver. Other NE2000-compatible cards that are not on the list are also likely to work with pcnet_cs.

•  3Com 3c589, 3c589B, 3c589C, 3c589D

•  Accton EN2212, EN2216 EtherCard

•  Allied Telesis CentreCOM CE6001, LA-PCM

•  Asante FriendlyNet

•  AST 1082 Ethernet

•  CeLAN EPCMCIA

•  CNet CN30BC, CN40BC Ethernet

•  Compex/ReadyLINK Ethernet Combo

•  Compex Linkport Ethernet

•  Connectware LANdingGear Adapter

•  CONTEC C-NET(PC)C

•  Danpex EN-6200P2 Ethernet

•  Datatrek NetCard

•  Dayna Communications CommuniCard E

•  Digital DEPCM-AA Ethernet

•  Digital EtherWORKS Turbo Ethernet

•  D-Link DE-650, DE-660

•  Eagle NE200 Ethernet

•  Edimax Technology Ethernet Combo

•  EFA InfoExpress 205, 207 Combo

•  Eiger Labs EPX-ET10T2 Combo

•  ELECOM Laneed LD-CDWA, LD-CDX, LD-CDNIA, LD-CDY

•  EP-210 Ethernet

•  Epson Ethernet

•  EtherPRIME Ethernet

•  Explorer NE-10000 Ethernet

•  EZLink 4109 Ethernet

•  Farallon Etherwave

•  Fiberline FL-4680

•  Fujitsu FMV-J181, FMV-J182, FMV-J182A

•  Fujitsu Towa LA501

•  Gateway 2000 Ethernet

•  Genius ME3000II Ethernet

•  Grey Cell Ethernet

•  GVC NIC-2000P Ethernet Combo

•  Hitachi HT-4840-11 EtherCard

•  Hypertec HyperEnet

•  IBM CreditCard Ethernet Adapter

•  IC-Card Ethernet

•  Infotel IN650ct Ethernet

•  I-O Data PCLA/T

•  Katron PE-520 Ethernet

•  Kingston KNE-PCM/M, KNE-PC2

•  LANEED Ethernet

•  LanPro EP4000A

•  Lantech Ethernet

•  Linksys EtherCard

•  Logitec LPM-LN10T, LPM-LN10BA Ethernet

•  Longshine Ethernet

•  Macnica ME-1 Ethernet

•  Maxtech PCN2000 Ethernet

•  Megahertz XJ10BT, XJ10BC, CC10BT Ethernet

•  Melco LPC-TJ, LPC-TS

•  Micronet Etherfast Adapter

•  NDC Instant-Link

•  Network General “Sniffer”

•  New Media EthernetLAN

•  New Media LiveWir (NOT the LiveWire+)

•  New Media BASICS Ethernet

•  NextCom NC5310

•  Novell/National NE4100 InfoMover

•  Ositech Four of Diamonds

•  Panasonic CF-VEL211P-B

•  Planet SmartCom 2000, 3500

•  PreMax PE-200 Ethernet

•  Proteon Ethernet

•  Ratoc REX-9822, REX-5588A/W

•  Relia RE2408T Ethernet

•  RPTI EP400, EP401 Ethernet

•  SCM Ethernet

•  SMC 8020BT EtherEZ (not the EliteCard)

•  Socket Communications Socket EA LAN Adapter

•  SuperSocket RE450T

•  Surecom Ethernet

•  SVEC PN605C

•  TDK LAC-CD02x, LAK-CD021, LAK-CD022A, LAK-CD021AX Ethernet

•  Thomas-Conrad Ethernet

•  Trust Ethernet Combo

•  Volktek NPL-402CT Ethernet

•  Xircom CreditCard CE2

•  26.2 Fast Ethernet (10/100baseT) adapters

•  Linksys EtherFast 10/100

•  Xircom CreditCard CE3

•  26.3 Token-ring adapters

•  You should at least have kernel 1.3.72

•  IBM Token ring Adapter

•  3Com 3c689 TokenLink III

•  26.4 Wireless network adapters

•  AT&T GIS / NCR WaveLAN version 2.0

•  DEC RoamAbout/DS

•  Xircom CreditCard Netwave

•  26.5 ISDN

•  ELSA PCMCIA

•  26.6 Modem and serial cards

Virtually all modem cards, simple serial port cards, and digital cellular modems should work. Also ISDN modems that emulate a standard UART are supported.

•  Advantech COMpad-32/85 dual serial

•  Quatech, IOTech dual RS-232 cards

•  Quatech quad RS-232 card

•  Socket Communications dual RS-232 card

•  26.7 Memory cards

All SRAM cards should work. Unsupported flash cards can be read but not written.

•  Epson 2MB SRAM

•  IBM 8MB Flash

•  Intel Series 2 and Series 2+ Flash

•  Maxtor MobileMax 16MB Flash

•  New Media SRAM

•  TDK Flash Memory SFM20W/C 20MB

•  26.8 SCSI adapters

Be careful. Many vendors, particularly CD-ROM vendors, seem to switch controller chips at will. Generally, They will use a different product code, but not always: older (supported) New Media Bus Toaster cards are not easily distinguishable from the current (unsupported) Bus Toaster cards.

•  Adaptec APA-1460, APA-1460A, APA-1450A SlimSCSI

•  Digital SCSI II adapter

•  Eiger Labs SCSI (Not the Eiger SS-1000)

•  Future Domain SCSI2GO

•  IBM SCSI

•  Iomega ZIP Card

•  IO-DATA PCSC-II, PCSC-II-L

•  IO-DATA CDG-PX44/PCSC CD-ROM

•  Logitec LPM-SCSI2

•  Logitec LCD-601 CD-ROM

•  MACNICA mPS110, mPS110-LP SCSI

•  Melco IFC-SC2, IFC-DC

•  NEC PC-9801N-J03R

•  New Media Bus Toaster SCSI (older cards only)

•  New Media Toast ’n Jam (SCSI only)

•  Panasonic KXL-D740, KXL-DN740A, KXL-DN740A-NB 4X CD-ROM

•  Pioneer PCP-PR1W CD-ROM

•  Qlogic FastSCSI

•  Raven CD-Note 4X

•  RATOC REX-9530 SCSI-2

•  Simple Technologies SCSI

•  Sony CD-ROM Discman PRD-250

•  Taxan ICD-400PN

•  Toshiba NWB0107ABK, SCSC200B

•  26.9 ATA/IDE CD-ROM adapters

You should at least have kernel 1.3.72.

•  Argosy EIDE CD-ROM

•  Caravelle CD-36N

•  Creative Technology CD-ROM

•  Digital Mobile Media CD-ROM

•  EXP CD940 CD-ROM

•  IO-DATA CDP-TX4/PCIDE, CDP-TX6/PCIDE, CDP-TX10/PCIDE, CDV-HDN6/PCIDE,

•  MOP-230/PCIDE

•  H45 Technologies Quick 2x CD-ROM

•  26.10 Multifunction cards

You should at least have kernel 1.3.73.

•  3Com 3c562, 3c562B/C/D, 3c563B/C/D

•  ActionTec Comnet EF336 modem 28.8 + ethernet 10MB (only modem part works)

•  IBM Home and Away Card

•  Linksys LANmodem 28.8, 33.6

•  Megahertz/U.S. Robotics EM1144, EM3288, EM3336

•  Motorola Mariner

•  Motorola Marquis

•  Ositech Jack of Diamonds

•  Xircom CreditCard CEM28, CEM33, CEM56

•  26.11 ATA/IDE card drives

These card drives are supported starting with kernel 1.3.72. Both Flash-ATA cards and rotating-media cards are supported.

•  26.12 Miscellaneous cards

•  Trimble Mobile GPS (uses serial/modem driver)

•  26.13 Cards with separately distributed drivers

•  IBM Smart Capture (Koji Okamura oka@nanotsu.kobe-u.ac.jp)

•  26.14 Working on …

People are working on the following cards:

•  Nat’l Inst DAQCard (Eric Gonzalez root@colomsat.net.co)

•  Roland SCP-55 MIDI (Toshiaki Nakatsu ir9k-nkt@asahi.net.or.jp)

•  CyberRom CD-ROM (David Rowntree rowntree@dircon.co.uk)

•  IO DATA PCSC-II (Katayama Nobuhiro kata-n@po.iijnet.or.jp)

•  Macnica mPS-1x0 (Katayama Nobuhiro kata-n@po.iijnet.or.jp)

•  FORTEZZA encryption (Rex Riggins rriggins@radium.ncsc.mil)

•  Harris PRISM/AM79C930 (Mark Mathews mark@mail.absoval.com)

•  IBM Etherjet (Danilo Beuche danili@cs.tu-berlin.de). The driver can be found at
http://www.first.gmd.de/~danilo/pc-driver

•  Teles

•  Hayes ESP

•  contact Dennis Boylan < dennis@lan.com>

•  Hayes ESP

•  contact Dennis Boylan < dennis@lan.com> PCMCIA

•  Xircom CE3 (Werner Koch werner.koch@guug.de)

•  26.15 Unsupported

•  ActionTec Comnet EF336 modem 28.8 + ethernet 10MB (ethernet part not supported)

•  Adaptec/Trantor APA-460 SlimSCSI

•  CanonCompaq PCMCIA floppy drive

•  New Media .WAVjammer and all other sound cards

•  All 100baseT ethernet adapters

•  Panasonic KXL-D720, KXL-D745

•  SMC 8016 EliteCard

•  Telxon/Aironet wireless adapter

•  Xircom CE II Ethernet/Modem

•  Xircom CE-10BT Ethernet

Appendix C. Plug and Play Devices

For people having trouble getting Plug and Play devices to work, the ISA PnP utilities written by Peter Fox are available. Quote from the README: These programs allow ISA Plug-And-Play devices to be configured on a Linux machine.

This program is suitable for all systems, whether or not they include a PnP BIOS.

Commands have been taken from the Plug and Play ISA specification Version 1.0a. (ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/pnp/docs/)

More information on ISA PnP utilities can be found on the Web site of Peter Fox:

Please let me know about hardware (not normally supported under Linux) which can be put to work with the aid of these utilities. A list of this hardware will be put in this appendix.

Appendix D. Linux Incompatible Hardware

Some hardware manufacturers have created devices which are compatible with MS-DOS and Windows 95 only. They seem to emulate part of the normally available hardware in the devices by software packages sold together with the device. Specification on these devices are not presented to the world so it is almost impossible to write drivers for these devices. Below a list of devices reported as being Linux incompatible will be given.

Simply put, it is best to avoid hardware which states things like “Needs Windows” or “Windows only.”

•  Canon LBP-465 printer

•  Hewlett-Packard HP Deskjet 820xx printers

•  Hewlett-Packard HP Deskjet 720C, 722C printers

•  Lexmark 1000 inkjet printer

•  Sharp JX-9210 printer

•  Boca Research 28.8 internal modem (model MV34AI)

•  DSVD modem??

•  Multiwave Innovation CommWave V.34 modem ( http://www.multiwave.com/)

•  US Robotics WinModem series

•  Zoltrix 33.6 Win HSP Voice/Speaker Phone modem

•  Compaq 192 PCMCIA modem/serial card

•  New Media Winsurfer PCMCIA modem/serial card

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