Scotlug Linux hardware database

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Placeholder for a page where we can list various bits of hardware we have, if it worked out of the box or what we had to do to get it to work etc.

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Video Cards

GeForce FX5700

Works out of the box in Ubuntu; need non-free drivers for 3D, but they're a doddle to install --Mrben 19:35, 20 May 2007 (BST)

GeForce4 Ti4200

  • works out the box in Ubuntu hoary and breezy, both with the free nv X server and the non-free (universe) nvidia X server; have to hack xorg.conf to get dualhead working tho :( --Neuro 11:05, 7 November 2005 (GMT)

GeForce FX5900

  • Works out of the box in Ubuntu Breezy, Dapper and Edgy and works fine with the non-free nvidia X Server.

Jackster 12:15, 18 December 2006 (GMT)

Geforce6 6200 generic

  • This card works great under Gentoo with either the nvidia drivers or the vesa drivers but will not work with NV. The dual head works great with nvidia drivers and a couple of TFT's(pmcclung 7/11/05)

GeForce6 6600GT

  • same as above. Works out of the box with Debians nv driver, or the driver provided through the nvidia-source package. I compiled it with Module-Assistant a-i nvidia-kernel, and it worked first time.

Quadro FX500

  • Yet another excellent runner. No hassle at all, just used module-assistant to build the module, and it worked perfectly.

Intel 82852/82855 GM/GME

  • works out the box in Ubuntu, haven't tested dualhead yet --Neuro 11:05, 7 November 2005 (GMT)

ATI Radeon 9250SE

  • Works with the open source Xorg "radeon" driver (3D with glitches), no dual head

ATI Radeon 9550

  • Works out of the box with Fedora Core 4&5 and Mandriva 2005. Will work with Mandriva 2006 if the vesa driver is used initially, this is due to the CVS version of Xorg included in the iso's in which the ati and nv open source drivers are broken (although they are fixed in a later update, thus it would be wise to update after install).

Capture Cards

DVB-T Cards

IEEE1394 Cards

  • I've got a generic firewire card - nothing special - but it works out of the box in Ubuntu. One thing to watch is that some distros require root privileges for iee1394 ports because some of the devices could be confidential, eg harddrives, which can make for problems with things like video capture software, eg Kino. -- Mrben 19:37, 20 May 2007 (BST)

Audio Cards

Fedora 3 ALSA 6 Channel PCI Sound Card XH7847 Supplier: Dick Smith Electronics New Zealand

USB Storage / MP3 Players

ATA Controllers

ITE8212 based

  • Cheap and reasonably cheerful. Works reasonably reliably under 2.6.13 and newer. Don't expect to get ATA133 speeds out of it though, it seems little faster than the onboard 33 controller. You can boot from it though.

Promise 20269

  • Has worked for years with 2.6
  • Both DVD-RW and CD-RW fail to work on it for an unknown reason, otherwise fine - bootable in theory but untested.

SATA Controllers

SCSI Controllers

Motherboards

Asus A7V8X-X

Cheap, and cheerful. Via KT400 board that works completely out of the box with Debian. Sound, network, firewire, you name it.

Asus K8N

Cheap way to get AMD 64. Networking, USB, sound and even Cooln'Quiet work fine under Ubuntu Dapper and Edgy.

GA-K8NS Ultra-939

Cheap Socket 939 Motherboard. Works out of the box with Fedora Core 4 & 5, Mandriva 2005 & 2006, and of course with some (although very little) tweaking this works fine with Gentoo.

ADSL

Conexant AccessRunner USB (ADSL1 "up to 8mbit")

These are cheap on eBay, Dynamode has one with model M-ADSL-USB-CW. It'll maintain the ADSL link even during a reboot (providing it doesn't lose USB power). Completely reliable even after several months of continuous use.

Only kernels 2.6.21+ have full ADSL statistics and the ability to stop/start the ADSL link from linux.

Printers

Brother HL-2030 Mono Laser

  • Device URI: file:/dev/usb/lp0 (CUPS' USB support failed to work), turns printer on from standby no problem.
    • Driver: Brother HL-1250 Foomatic/hl1250 (doesn't go above 600x600 DPI)

Complete systems

Desktop Systems

Laptops

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