Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO FRiC (Boy of Destiny), frac@ksc.au.ac.th v6969, 2 May 1995 This document lists most of the hardware supported by Linux and helps you locate any necessary drivers. 1. Introduction 1.1. Welcome Welcome to the Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO. This document lists most of the hardware supported by Linux, now if only people would read this first before posting their questions on Usenet. 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. Also 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 the net at the usual sites with the Linux HOWTOs, and on my web page at (http://homepage.eznet.net/~frac/hardware.html). Many thanks to Paul Erkkila and E-Znet for the account. No more wacky *.th links. If you know of any Linux hardware (in)compatibilities not listed here please let me know. Just send mail or find me on IRC. (Read the Online-Support HOWTO.) Thanks. 1.2. System architectures This document only deals with Linux for Intel platforms, for other platforms check the following: o Linux/68k (http://www-users.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~hn/linux68k.html) o Linux/MIPS (http://www.waldorf-gmbh.de/linux-mips-faq.html) o Linux/PowerPC (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/ports/Linux-PowerPC-FAQ.gz) o Linux for Acorn (http://www.ph.kcl.ac.uk/~amb/linux.html) o MacLinux (http://www.ibg.uu.se/maclinux/) 2. Computers/Motherboards/BIOS ISA, VLB, EISA, and PCI buses are all supported. PS/2 and Microchannel (MCA) is not supported in the standard kernel. Alpha test PS/2 MCA kernels are available but not yet recommended for beginners or serious use. 2.1. Specific systems o Compaq Deskpro XL (http://www-c724.uibk.ac.at/XL/) o IBM PS/2 MCA systems (ftp://invaders.dcrl.nd.edu/pub/misc/) 3. Laptops Some laptops have unusual video adapters or power management, it is not uncommon to be unable to use the power management features. 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. (Read the PCMCIA HOWTO.) o APM (ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/laptops/apm/) o PCMCIA (ftp://cb-iris.stanford.edu/pub/pcmcia/) o non-blinking cursor (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/console/noblink-1.5.tar.gz) o power savings (WD7600 chipset) (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Misc/low- level/pwrm-1.0.tar.Z) o other general info (ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/laptops/) 3.1. Specific laptops o Compaq Contura Aero (http://domen.uninett.no/~hta/linux/aero-faq.html) o IBM ThinkPad (http://peipa.essex.ac.uk/html/linux-thinkpad.html) o IBM ThinkPad 755Cs (http://www.cica.fr/~basturk/linux/index.html) 4. CPU/FPU Intel/AMD/Cyrix 386SX/DX/SL/DXL/SLC, 486SX/DX/SL/SX2/DX2/DX4, Pentium. Basically all 386 or better processors will work. Linux has built-in FPU emulation if you don't have a math coprocessor. Linux does not support SMP yet. Multi-processor systems will run Linux but only the first processor will be used. A few very early AMD 486DX's may hang in some special situations. All current chips should be okay and getting a chip swap for old CPU's 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. Fixed in newer kernels. o enable cache on Cyrix processors (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/CxPatch030.tar.z) o Cyrix software cache control (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/linux.cxpatch) 5. 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. S3 801 (ISA), S3 805 (VLB), ET4000/W32p, and ATI Graphics Wonder (Mach32) are good low-end accelerated cards. 32 bit color means 24 bit color aligned on 32 bit boundaries. Modes with 24 bit packed pixels are not supported, so cards that can display 24 bit color in other OS's may not able to do this in X. These cards include Mach32, Cirrus 542x, S3 801/805, ET4000, and others. 5.1. Diamond video cards Early Diamond cards are not supported by XFree86, but there are ways of getting them to work. Most recent Diamond cards ARE supported by the current release of XFree86. o Diamond support for XFree86 (http://www.diamondmm.com/linux.html) o Diamond FAQ (for older cards) (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/Diamond.FAQ) 5.2. SVGALIB o VGA o EGA o ATI Mach32 o Cirrus 542x o OAK OTI-037/67/77/87 o Trident TVGA8900/9000 o Tseng ET3000/ET4000/W32 5.3. XFree86 3.1.1, Accelerated o ATI Mach8 o ATI Mach32 (16 bpp - does not work with all Mach32 cards) o ATI Mach64 (16/32 bpp) o Cirrus Logic 5420, 542x/5430 (16 bpp), 5434 (16/32 bpp), 62x5 o IBM 8514/A o IBM XGA, XGA-II o IIT AGX-010/014/015/016 o Oak OTI-087 o S3 911, 924, 801, 805, 928, 864, 964, Trio32, Trio64 o see Appendix A for long list of supported cards o Tseng ET4000/W32/W32i/W32p o Weitek P9000 (16/32 bpp) o Diamond Viper VLB/PCI o Orchid P9000 o Western Digital WD90C31/33 5.4. XFree86 3.1.1, Unaccelerated o ATI VGA Wonder series o Avance Logic AL2101/2228/2301/2302/2308/2401 o Chips & Technologies 65520/65530/65540/65545 o Cirrus Logic 6420/6440 o Compaq AVGA o Genoa GVGA o MCGA (320x200) o MX MX68000/MX68010 o NCR 77C22, 77C22E, 77C22E+ o Oak OTI-067, OTI-077 o Trident TVGA8800, TVGA8900, TVGA9xxx (not very fast) o Tseng ET3000, ET4000AX o VGA (standard VGA, 4 bit, slow) o Video 7 / Headland Technologies HT216-32 o Western Digital/Paradise PVGA1, WD90C00/10/11/24/30/31/33 5.5. Monochrome o Hercules mono o Hyundai HGC-1280 o Sigma LaserView PLUS o VGA mono 5.6. Others o EGA (ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/OS/Linux/BETA/Xega/) 5.7. Works in progress o Compaq QVision o Number Nine Imagine 128 No, I do not know when support for these cards will be finished, please don't ask me. If you want support for these cards now get Accelerated-X. 5.8. 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. Only cards not supported by XFree86 are listed here. Contact the vendors directly or check the Commercial HOWTO for more info. 5.8.1. Accelerated-X o Compaq QVision 2000 o Matrox MGA-I, MGA-II o Number Nine I-128 $199 from X Inside, Inc. . Accel-X 1.1 is available right now for a promotional price of $99.50, with free upgrade to 1.2. 16 bit support for ATI Mach32, ATI Mach 64, Cirrus 542x/543x, IBM XGA, IIT AGX-014/015, Matrox MGA, #9 I-128, Oak OTI-077/087, S3 cards, ET4000, ET4000/W32 series, Weitek P9000, WD90C30/31. 32 bit support for ATI Mach64, Cirrus 5434, Matrox MGA, #9 I-128, S3-928/864/964, ET4000/W32p, Weitek P9000. Accel-X 1.2 will support 24 bit packed pixel modes and have support for many more video cards. 5.8.2. Metro-X $150 from Metro Link . Metro-X 2.3 is now available for special introductory price of $99.00. Metro-X has similar hardware support as Accel-X, however I don't have much more information as I can't seem to view the PostScript files they sent me. Mail them directly for more info. 6. 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. (1.1.76) ESDI controllers that emulate the ST-506 (that is MFM/RLL/IDE) interface will also work. The bad block checking comment also applies to these controllers. Generic 8 bit XT controllers also work. 7. 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 UNIX performance figures before buying a SCSI card. 7.1. Supported o AMI Fast Disk VLB/EISA (works with BusLogic drivers) o Adaptec AVA-1505/1515 (ISA) (use 152x drivers) o Adaptec AHA-1510/152x (ISA) (AIC-6260/6360) o Adaptec AHA-154x (ISA) (all models) o Adaptec AHA-174x (EISA) (in enhanced mode) o Adaptec AHA-274x (EISA) / 284x (VLB) (AIC-7770) o Always IN2000 o BusLogic (all models) o DPT Smartcache (EATA) (ISA/EISA/PCI) including PM2011, PM2012, PM2021, PM2022, PM2024, PM2122, PM2124, PM2322, PM3021, PM3222, PM3224 o DTC 329x (EISA) (Adaptec 154x compatible) o Future Domain TMC-16x0, TMC-3260 (PCI) o Future Domain TMC-8xx, TMC-950 o NCR 53c7x0, 53c8x0 (PCI) o Pro Audio Spectrum 16 SCSI (ISA) o Qlogic / Control Concepts SCSI/IDE (FAS408) (ISA/VLB/PCMCIA) does not work with PCI (different chipset). PCMCIA cards must boot DOS to init card o Seagate ST-01/ST-02 (ISA) o SoundBlaster 16 SCSI-2 (Adaptec 152x) (ISA) o Trantor T128/T128F/T228 (ISA) o UltraStor 14F (ISA), 24F (EISA), 34F (VLB) o Western Digital WD7000 SCSI 7.2. Others o AMD AM53C974, AM79C974 PCI SCSI (Compaq, Zeos onboard SCSI) (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/Incoming/AM53C974-0.3.tgz) o Adaptec ACB-40xx SCSI-MFM/RLL bridgeboard (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/scsi/adaptec-40XX.tar.gz) o Adaptec AHA-2940 (PCI) (AIC-7870) (ftp://remus.nrl.navy.mil/pub/Linux/) o Acculogic ISApport / MV Premium 3D SCSI (NCR 53c406a) (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/scsi/ncr53c406-0.10.patch.gz) o Always AL-500 (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/scsi/al500_0.1.tar.gz) o Iomega PC2/2B (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/scsi/iomega_pc2-1.1.x.tar.gz) o New Media Bus Toaster PCMCIA (ftp://lamont.ldeo.columbia.edu/pub/linux/bus_toaster-1.5.tgz) o Ricoh GSI-8 (ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scsi/gsi8.tar.gz) o Trantor T130B (NCR 53c400) (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/scsi/53c400.tar.gz) 7.3. Unsupported o Parallel port SCSI adapters o Non Adaptec compatible DTC boards (327x, 328x) 8. Controllers (I/O) Any standard serial/parallel/joystick/IDE combo cards. Linux supports 8250, 16450, 16550, and 16550A UART's. 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 NS16550's 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 9. Controllers (multiport) 9.1. Supported o AST FourPort and clones o Accent Async-4 o Bell Technologies HUB6 o Boca BB-1004, 1008 (4, 8 port) - no DTR, DSR, and CD o Boca BB-2016 (16 port) o Boca IO/AT66 (6 port) o Boca IO 2by4 (4S/2P) - works with modems, but uses 5 IRQ's o Cyclades Cyclom-8Y/16Y (8, 16 port) o PC-COMM 4-port o STB 4-COM o Twincom ACI/550 o Usenet Serial Board II 9.2. Others o Comtrol RocketPort (8/16/32 port) (ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/comtrol/) o DigiBoard COM/Xi contact Simon Park o DigiBoard PC/Xe (ISA) and PC/Xi (EISA) (ftp://ftp.skypoint.com/pub/linux/digiboard/) o Specialix SI0/XIO (modular, 4 to 32 ports) (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/serial/sidrv0_5.taz) o Stallion Technologies EasyIO / EasyConnection 8/32 (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/serial/stallion-0.1.5.tar.gz) 10. Network adapters Ethernet adapters vary greatly in performance. In general the newer the design the better. Some very old cards like the 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. 10.1. Supported 10.1.1. ISA o 3Com 3C501 - ``avoid like the plague'' o 3Com 3C503, 3C505, 3C507, 3C509 (ISA) / 3C579 (EISA) o AMD LANCE (79C960) / PCnet-ISA/PCI (AT1500, HP J2405A, NE1500/NE2100) o AT&T GIS WaveLAN o Allied Telesis AT1700 o Cabletron E21xx o DEC DEPCA and EtherWORKS o HP PCLAN (27245 and 27xxx series) o HP PCLAN PLUS (27247B and 27252A) o Intel EtherExpress o NE2000/NE1000 (be careful with clones) o Racal-Interlan NI5210 (i82586 Ethernet chip) o Racal-Interlan NI6510 (am7990 lance chip) - doesn't work with more than 16 megs RAM o PureData PDUC8028, PDI8023 o SMC Ultra o Schneider & Koch G16 o Western Digital WD80x3 10.1.2. EISA and onboard controllers o Ansel Communications AC3200 EISA o Apricot Xen-II o Zenith Z-Note / IBM ThinkPad 300 built-in adapter 10.1.3. Pocket and portable adapters o AT-Lan-Tec/RealTek parallel port adapter o D-Link DE600/DE620 parallel port adapter 10.1.4. Slotless o SLIP/CSLIP/PPP (serial port) o PLIP (parallel port) - using ``LapLink cable'' or bi-directional cable 10.1.5. ARCnet o works with all ARCnet cards 10.2. Others 10.2.1. Ethernet o 3Com Vortex Ethercards (3C590, 3C595 (100 mbps)) (PCI) (http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/vortex.html) o DEC ``Tulip'' / SMC PCI EtherPower (http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html) 10.2.2. ISDN o Diehl SCOM card (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/network/isdndrv-0.1.1.tar.gz) o ICN ISDN card (ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/isdn4linux/) o Teles ISDN card (ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/isdn4linux/) 10.2.3. Amateur radio cards o Ottawa PI2 o Most generic 8530 based HDLC boards o No support for the PMP/Baycom board 10.2.4. PCMCIA cards o 3Com 3C589 o Accton EN2212 EtherCard o D-Link DE650 o IBM Credit Card Adapter o IC-Card o Kingston KNE-PCM/M o LANEED Ethernet o Linksys EthernetCard o Network General ``Sniffer'' o Novell NE4100 o Thomas-Conrad Ethernet o possibly more 10.2.5. Token Ring o Token Ring (ftp://ftp.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/pub/unix/linux/) 10.3. Unsupported o Xircom adapters are not supported. 11. Sound cards 11.1. Supported o 6850 UART MIDI o ATI Stereo F/X (SB compatible) o Adlib o ECHO-PSS (Orchid SW32, Cardinal DSP16, etc) o Ensoniq SoundScape (boot DOS to init card) o Gravis Ultrasound o Gravis Ultrasound 16-bit sampling daughterboard o Gravis Ultrasound MAX o Logitech SoundMan Games (SBPro, 44kHz stereo support) o Logitech SoundMan Wave (SBPro/MPU-401) (OPL4) o Logitech SoundMan 16 (PAS-16 compatible) o Microsoft Sound System (AD1848) o MPU-401 MIDI o Media Vision Premium 3D (Jazz16) (SBPro compatible) o Media Vision Pro Sonic 16 (Jazz) o Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum 16 o SoundBlaster o SoundBlaster Pro o SoundBlaster 16/ASP/MCD/SCSI-2 o Sound Galaxy NX Pro o ThunderBoard (SB compatible) o WaveBlaster (and other SB16 daughterboards) 11.2. Others o MPU-401 MIDI (intelligent mode) (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/sound/mpu401.0.11a.tar.gz) o PC speaker / Parallel port DAC (ftp://ftp.informatik.hu-berlin.de/pub/os/linux/hu-sound/) o Turtle Beach MultiSound/Tahiti/Monterey (ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/users/mccreary/archive/tbeach/multisound/) 11.3. Unsupported The ASP chip on SoundBlaster 16 series and AWE32 is not supported. AWE32's special features (MIDI, effects) are not supported. They will probably never be supported. SoundBlaster 16's with DSP 4.11 have a hardware bug that causes hung/stuck notes when you use a WaveBlaster or other MIDI devices attached to it. There is no known fix. 12. 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 bugfix for 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 manufacturers for firmware upgrades if you suspect problems. o Multiple device driver (RAID-0) (ftp://sweet-smoke.ufr-info-p7.ibp.fr/public/Linux/) 13. Tape drives 13.1. Supported o 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.) o QIC-02 o QIC-117, QIC-40/80 drives (Ftape) (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/tapes) - Most tape drives using the floppy controller should work. Check the Ftape HOWTO for details. Various dedicated QIC-80 controllers (Colorado FC-10, Iomega Tape Controller II) are also supported. 13.2. Unsupported o Emerald and Tecmar QIC-02 tape controller cards - Chris Ulrich o Drives that connect to the parallel port (eg: Colorado Trakker) o Some high speed tape controllers (Colorado TC-15 / FC-20) o Irwin AX250L/Accutrak 250 (not QIC-80) o IBM Internal Tape Backup Unit (not QIC-80) o COREtape Light 14. CD-ROM drives 14.1. Supported o 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. o Aztech CDA268, Orchid CDS-3110, Okano/Wearnes CDD-110 o EIDE (ATAPI) CD-ROM drives o Matsushita/Panasonic, Kotobuki (SBPCD) o Mitsumi o Sony CDU31A/CDU33A o Sony CDU-535/CDU-531 14.2. Others o GoldStar R420 (ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/cdrom/drivers/goldstar/) o LMS/Philips CM 205/225/202 (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/cdrom/lmscd0.3d.tar.gz) o LMS Philips CM 206 (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/cdrom/cm206.0.22b.tar.gz) o Mitsumi (alternate drivers) (ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/cdrom/drivers/mitsumi/) o Mitsumi (module) (ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/cdrom/drivers/mitsumi-1.2.x/) o NEC CDR-35D (old) (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/cdrom/linux- neccdr35d.patch) o Teac CD-55A SuperQuad (ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/cdrom/develop/teac/) 14.3. Notes PhotoCD (XA) is supported. All CD-ROM drives should work similarly for reading data. There are various compatibility problems with audio CD playing utilities. (Especially with some 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. 15. Removable drives All SCSI drives should work if the controller is supported, including optical drives, WORM, CD-R, floptical, and others. Iomega Bernoulli and ZiP drives, and SyQuest drives all work fine. Linux supports both 512 and 1024 bytes/sector disks. There's a problem with msdos filesystems on 1024 bytes/sector disks on some recent kernels (fixed in 1.1.75). 16. Mice 16.1. Supported o Microsoft serial mouse o Mouse Systems serial mouse o Logitech Mouseman serial mouse o Logitech serial mouse o ATI XL Inport busmouse o C&T 82C710 (QuickPort) (Toshiba, TI Travelmate) o Microsoft busmouse o Logitech busmouse o PS/2 (auxiliary device) mouse 16.2. Others o Sejin J-mouse (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/console/jmouse.1.1.70-jmouse.tar.gz) o MultiMouse - use multiple mouse devices as single mouse (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Misc/MultiMouse-1.0.tgz) 16.3. Notes Newer Logitech mice (except the Mouseman) use the Microsoft protocol and all three buttons do work. Eventhough 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.) 17. Modems All internal modems or external modems connected to the serial port. 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. PCMCIA modems should work with the PCMCIA drivers. Fax modems need appropriated software to operate. o Digicom Connection 96+/14.4+ - DSP code downloading program (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Serial/smdl- linux.1.02.tar.gz) o ZyXEL U-1496 series - ZyXEL 1.4, modem/fax/voice control program (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Serial/ZyXEL-1.4.tar.gz) 18. Printers/Plotters All printers and plotters connected to the parallel or serial port should work. o HP LaserJet 4 series - free-lj4, printing modes control program (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/free- lj4-1.1p1.tar.gz) o BiTronics parallel port interface (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/misc/bt-ALPHA-0.0.1.tar.gz) 18.1. Ghostscript Many Linux programs output PostScript files. Non-PostScript printers can emulate PostScript Level 2 using Ghostscript. o Ghostscript (ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/pub/ghost/aladdin/) 18.1.1. Ghostscript supported printers o Apple Imagewriter o C. Itoh M8510 o Canon BubbleJet BJ10e, BJ200 o Canon LBP-8II, LIPS III o DEC LA50/70/75/75plus o DEC LN03, LJ250 o Epson 9 pin, 24 pin, LQ series, Stylus, AP3250 o HP 2563B o HP DesignJet 650C o HP DeskJet/Plus/500 o HP DeskJet 500C/520C/550C/1200C color o HP LaserJet/Plus/II/III/4 o HP PaintJet/XL/XL300 color o IBM Jetprinter color o IBM Proprinter o Imagen ImPress o Mitsubishi CP50 color o NEC P6/P6+/P60 o Okidata MicroLine 182 o Ricoh 4081 o SPARCprinter o StarJet 48 inkjet printer o Tektronix 4693d color 2/4/8 bit o Tektronix 4695/4696 inkjet plotter o Xerox XES printers (2700, 3700, 4045, etc.) 18.1.2. Others o Canon BJC600 and Epson ESC/P color printers (ftp://petole.imag.fr/pub/postscript/) 19. Scanners o A4 Tech AC 4096 (ftp://ftp.informatik.hu-berlin.de/pub/local/linux/ac4096.tgz) o Fujitsu SCSI-2 scanners contact Dr. G.W. Wettstein o Genius GS-B105G (ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scanner/gs105-0.0.1.tar.gz) o Genius GeniScan GS4500 handheld scanner (ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scanner/gs4500-1.3.tar.gz) o HP ScanJet, ScanJet Plus (ftp://ftp.ctrl-c.liu.se/unix/linux/wingel/) o HP ScanJet II series SCSI (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/graphics/scanners/hpscanpbm-0.3a.tar.gz) o Logitech Scanman 32 / 256 (ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scanner/logiscan-0.0.2.tar.gz) o Mustek M105 handheld scanner with GI1904 interface (ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scanner/scan- driver-0.1.8.tar.gz) o UMAX SCSI scanners contact Craig Johnston 20. Other hardware 20.1. VESA Power Savings Protocol (DPMS) monitors 20.2. Joysticks o Joysticks (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/console/joystick-0.7.tgz) 20.3. Video capture boards o FAST Screen Machine II (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/ScreenMachineII_1.1.tgz) o ProMovie Studio (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/PMS-grabber.tgz) o VideoBlaster, Rombo Media Pro+ (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/vid_src.gz) o WinVision video capture card (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/fgrabber-1.0.tgz) 20.4. UPS o various UPS's are supported, read the UPS HOWTO 20.5. Miscellaneous o HP IEEE-488 (HP-IB) interface (ftp://beaver.chemie.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/IEEE488/) o Mattel Powerglove (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/linux-powerglove.tgz) o Reveal FM Radio card (ftp://magoo.uwsuper.edu/pub/fm-radio/) o Videotext cards (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/videoteXt-0.4.tar.gz) 21. Related sources of information o Cameron Spitzer's hardware FAQ archive (ftp://rahul.net/pub/cameron/PC-info/) o Computer Hardware and Software Vendor Phone Numbers (http://mtmis1.mis.semi.harris.com/comp_ph1.html) o System Optimization Information (http://www.dfw.net/~sdw/) 22. Acknowledgments Thanks to all the authors and contributors of other HOWTO's, many things here are shamelessly stolen from their works; to Zane Healy and Ed Carp, the original authors of this list; 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. 23. Appendix A. S3 cards supported by XFree86 3.1.1. CHIPSET RAMDAC CLOCKCHIP BPP CARD 801/805 AT&T 20C490 16 Actix GE 32 Orchid Fahrenheit 1280+ 801/805 AT&T 20C490 ICD2061A 16 STB PowerGraph X.24 805 S3 GENDAC 16 Miro 10SD VLB/PCI SPEA Mirage VLB 805 SS2410 ICD2061A 8 Diamond Stealth 24 VLB 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 Mercury VLB 928 Bt485 ICD2061A 32 #9 GXE Level 10/11/12 928 Ti3020 ICD2061A 32 #9 GXE Level 14/16 864 AT&T 20C498 ICS2494 32 Miro 20SD (BIOS 1.x) 864 AT&T 20C498/ ICD2061A/ 32 ELSA Winner 1000 PRO VLB/PCI STG1700 ICS9161 MIRO 20SD (BIOS 2.x) 864 STG1700 ICD2061A 32 Actix GE 64 VLB 864 AT&T 20C498/ ICS2595 16 SPEA 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 864 ICS5342 ICS5342 32 Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM (some) 864 AT&T 20C490 ICD2061A 32 #9 GXE64 864 AT&T 20C498-13 ICD2061A 32 #9 GXE64 PCI 964 AT&T 20C505 ICD2061A 32 Miro Crystal 20SV PCI 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 764 (Trio64) 32 SPEA Mirage P64 (BIOS 5.x) Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM #9 GXE64 Trio64 STB PowerGraph 64