1.1. Notes on binary-only drivers

Some devices are supported by binary-only modules; avoid these when you can. Binary-only modules are modules which are compiled for ONE kernel version. The source code for these modules has NOT been released. This may prevent you from upgrading or maintaining your system. It will also prevent you from using the component on alternate (usually non-x86) architectures.

Linus Torvalds says "I allow binary-only modules, but I want people to know that they are _only_ ever expected to work on the one version of the kernel that they were compiled for." (See http://lwn.net/1999/0211/a/lt-binary.html for the rest of the message.)

1.2. Notes on commercial drivers

Various commercial drivers for sound, video, etc. exist for Linux. Tracking these commercial drivers is beyond the scope of this document. These drivers might be mentioned at various points in this document, but note that no effort has been made to make sure that this information is current.

1.3. System architectures

This document primarily deals with Linux for x86-based platforms. For other platforms, check the following:

• Alpha

• ARM

• CRIS (Axis Communications ETRAX 100LX embedded CPU)

• IA-64

• m68k

• MIPS

• PA-RISC

• PowerPC

• S/390

• SuperH

• SPARC

1.4. Related sources of information

• The LDP has an index of hardware-related HOWTO documents.

• Price Watch (street price search engine, also useful for finding specs on various bits of hardware)

• Guide to Computer Vendors

1.5. Known problems with this document

This document can't possibly be up-to-date at all times. I would like to see this document be a useful reference again. The following items need to be fixed for that to happen:

• Old cruft needs to be eliminated. Much of this document was written in 1995, give or take, when PCI was new and not supported terribly well, and ISA PnP was seen as something evil. Oh, how the times have changed...

  Also, many of the model numbers listed in this document are no longer available, and are probably not of much interest to the vast majority of people. Personally, I think hardware that hasn't been available for more than 5 years or so can safely be removed. Old versions of this document will always be available on the Internet...

• URLs in this document need updating. I've begun to do that, but it is a big job... Diffs are welcome.

• In the process of updating and converting this document to DocBook, some cruft was introduced. If anyone wants to help clean up this, get the latest source (preferably by emailing me at <steve@silug.org>) and grep for "FIXME".

• Lists in this HOWTO that are available in other HOWTOs or FAQs need to be either updated here or dropped completely from this document. (A good example is the list of video cards supported by XFree86.)

• Newer interfaces such as USB need to be added into the list. (Would a USB-attached hard drive go under "USB", "Removable drives", "Hard drives", or all of the above?)

• And, of course, random hardware that just isn't listed in this document needs to be added.

All of this is going to require a lot of work. If this happens to interest you, please email <steve@silug.org>. I can use the help. :-)

1.6. New versions of this document

The latest version of this document can be found on the Linux Documentation Project home site or any of its many mirrors.

1.7. Feedback and corrections

If you have questions or comments about this document, please feel free to email Steven Pritchard at <steve@silug.org>. I also welcome corrections and additions. At some point in the near future, I plan to set up a web interface for adding components to this document. In the mean time, please just use the word "hardware" somewhere in the subject when sending corrections or additions.

1.8. Acknowledgments

This document has passed through many hands. I don't know if he wrote the first version, but in 1993 Ed Carp was maintaining it. In August of 1994, FRiC (Boy of Destiny) took over. After he fell off the face of the planet in late 1995 or early 1996 (and we all miss him from IRC, I might add), Patrick Reijnen took over (sometime in 1997) and continued to maintain this document until late 1999.

Recent versions of this document contained the following:

Thanks to all the authors and contributors of other HOWTO's, 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.

In addition, I'd like to thank the many members of the Southern Illinois Linux Users Group and the Linux Users of Central Illinois for giving me so many interesting problems to solve over the years, and, of course, my wife Kara for putting up with me all these years. :-)

1.9. Revision History

The following is the revision history of this document since I (Steven Pritchard) took over maintenance.

2.1. Specific system/motherboard/BIOS

Please note that this is by no means a complete list. Please send updates.

• IBM PS/2 MCA systems

  Supported since kernel version 2.0.7, but only for the stable kernel releases. For information you can look at the Micro Channel Linux Home Page. Software for MCA systems can be found here. Information on the MCA SCSI subsystem can be found here.

• EFA E5TX-AT motherboard has a solvable problem with RedHat Linux 5.0 and possibly other versions of Linux. It spontaneously reboots while probing hardware. To solve, update BIOS to version 1.01. Get the BIOS update here.

• The Zida 6MLX motherboard with PII Intel LX chipset is mentioned only to work with Linux when the PII cache is disabled in BIOS. BIOS upgrade does not solve the problem. Symptom is random reboots during or shortly after system boot.

2.2. Unsupported

• Supermicro P5MMA with BIOS versions 1.36, 1.37 and 1.4. Linux will not boot on this motherboard. A new (beta) release of the BIOS which makes Linux boot, is available here.

• Supermicro P5MMA98. Linux will not boot on this motherboard. A new (beta) release of the BIOS which makes Linux boot, is available here.

• DataExpert Corp. ExpertColor TX531 V1.0 motherboard with chipset ACER M1531 (Date: 9729, TS6) and ACER M1543 (Date: 9732 TS6) seems to present not reproducible segmentations faults, kernel oops and kernel hangs under heavy load and tape access. The problem seems to be the PCI-bus, respectively the ACER chipset.

3.1. Specific laptops

• Compaq Concerto (pen driver)

• Compaq Contura Aero

• IBM ThinkPad

• IBM Thinkpad 770 series

• NEC Versa M and P

• Tadpole P1000

• Tadpole P1000 (another one)

• TI TravelMate 4000M

• TI TravelMate 5100

• Toshiba Satellite Pro 400CDT

3.2. PCMCIA

• PCMCIA

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.

4.1. Intel

Intel 386SX/DX/SL, 486SX/DX/SL/SX2/DX2/DX4, Pentium, Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III (regular and Xeon versions), Pentium 4, and Celeron are all supported.

4.2. AMD

AMD 386SX/DX, 486SX/DX/DX2/DX4, K5, K6, K6-2, K6-3, and Athlon (all varieties, including MP) are all supported. Older versions of K6 should be avoided as they are buggy. Setting "internal cache" disabled in bios setup can be a workaround. Some early K6-2 300Mhz have problems with the system chips.

The old NexGen processors are also supported.

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.

4.3. Cyrix

Cyrix 386SX/DX, 486SX/DX, 5x86, 6x86, and MediaGX are all supported.

• enable cache on Cyrix processors

• Cyrix software cache control

• Cyrix 5x86 CPU register settings

4.4. IDT

IDT Winchip C6-PSME2006A processors are supported under Linux.

4.5. Transmeta

The Transmeta Crusoe processors are supported.

4.6. Misc. notes

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

Linux supports SMP (multiple CPUs) in all 2.x kernels. See the Linux SMP HOWTO for more information.

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)

6.1. XFree86

The following is a list of cards known to work with XFree86 versions 3.3.6 and/or 4.1.0. See the XFree86 web site for more information.

6.2. 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. Contact the vendors directly or check the Commercial HOWTO for more info.

• Xi Graphics (Accelerated-X)

• Metro Link (Metro-X)

6.3. Kernel Framebuffer (fbdev)

The kernel supports a graphical console on some video cards. This support was originally designed for non-x86 architectures which generally do not have text-capable video cards. It was integrated into the kernel in 2.2, and now supports various video cards.

More information can be found at linux-fbdev.org.

The following cards are supported:

• Amiga builtin chipset (amifb)

• ATARI builtin chipset (atafb)

• ATI Rage128 (aty128fb)

• ATI Mach64, RageII, RageII+, RageIIc (atyfb)

• Hercules Graphics Adaptor (hgafb)

• Matrox Millennium I, Millennium II, Mystique, G200 (matroxfb)

• PowerMAC "platinum" (platinumfb)

• S3 Savage4 (savagefb)

• 3Dfx Voodoo, Voodoo2, Voodoo3 (tdfxfb)

• S3 Trio64 (trio64fb)

• All VESA 2.0 cards (vesafb)

6.4. SVGALIB (graphics for console)

• VGA

• EGA

• ARK Logic ARK1000PV/2000PV

• ATI VGA Wonder

• ATI Mach32

• Cirrus 542x, 543x

• OAK OTI-037/67/77/87

• S3 (limited support)

• Trident TVGA8900/9000

• Tseng ET3000/ET4000/W32

7.1. Alpha, Beta drivers

• UMC 8672 interfaces (experimental in kernel 2.2)

• Promise DC4030VL caching interface card (experimental support in kernel 2.2)

8.1. Supported

• AMI Fast Disk (VLB/EISA) (BusLogic compatible)

• Adaptec AVA-1502E (ISA/VLB) (AIC-6360) (AHA1520)

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

• Adaptec AVA-1825 (VLB) (Adaptec AHA-152x compatible)

  This card has a SCSI, EIDE and floppy port which all work nicely.

• 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/274xT (EISA) (AIC-7771). The 274xT is supported since kernel series 2.1.x (AHA2740)

• Adaptec AHA-284x (VLB) (AIC-7770) (AHA2740)

• Adaptec AHA-2910B (PCI) (since kernel series 2.1.x)

• Adaptec AHA-2920 (PCI). Use the Future Domain driver. LILO parameters are needed when used for hard disks.

• Adaptec AHA-2920C (PCI)

• Adaptec AHA-2930/U/U2 (PCI)

• Adaptec AHA-2940/U/W/AU/UW/U2W/U2/U2B/U2BOEM (PCI) (AIC-7861, AIC-7871, AIC-7844, AIC-7881, AIC-7884). Some of these are only supported since kernel series 2.1.x (AHA2740)

• Adaptec AHA-2944D/WD/UD/UWD (PCI). Some of these are only supported since kernel series 2.1.x (AHA2740)

• Adaptec AHA-2950U2/U2B/U2W

• Adaptec AHA-3940/U/W/UW/AUW/U2W (PCI) (AIC-7872, AIC-7882) (since 1.3.6). Some of these are only supported since kernel series 2.1.x

• Adaptec AHA-3950U2B/U2D

• Adaptec AHA-3985U/W/UW (PCI) (AIC-7873, AIC-7883). Some of these are only supported since kernel series 2.1.x

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

• Adaptec on board controllers with AIC-777x (EISA), AIC-785x, AIC-786x, AIC-787x (PCI), AIC-788x (PCI), AIC-789x, AIC-3860. AIC-786x and AIC-789x are supported since kernel series 2.1.x

• AdvanSys ABP510/5150 Bus-Master (ISA)

  (more info)

• AdvanSys ABP5140 Bus-Master (ISA) PnP

  (more info)

• AdvanSys ABP5142 Bus-Master (ISA) PnP with floppy

  (more info)

• AdvanSys ABP920 Bus-Master (PCI)

  (more info)

• AdvanSys ABP930/U Bus-Master (PCI/Ultra>)

  (more info)

• AdvanSys ABP960/U Bus-Master (PCI/ULTRA) MAC/PC

  (more info)

• AdvanSys ABP542 Bus-Master (ISA) with floppy (single channel)

  (more info)

• AdvanSys ABP742 Bus-Master (EISA) (single channel)

  (more info)

• AdvanSys ABP842 Bus-Master (VL) (single channel)

  (more info)

• AdvanSys ABP940/U Bus-Master (PCI/Ultra) (single channel)

  (more info)

• AdvanSys ABP970/U Bus-Master (PCI/Ultra) MAC/PC (single channel)

  (more info)

• AdvanSys ABP752 Dual Channel Bus-Master (EISA) (dual channel)

  (more info)

• AdvanSys ABP852 Dual Channel Bus-Master (VL) (dual channel)

  (more info)

• AdvanSys ABP950 Dual Channel Bus-Master (PCI) (dual channel)

  (more info)

• Always IN2000

• AMD AM53C974

• BusLogic FlashPoint LT/DL/LW/DW (BT-930(R), BT-920, BT-932(R), BT-950(R), BT-952(R))

  (more info)

• Compaq Smart Array 2

• DPT PM2001, PM2012A (EATA-PIO)

• DPT Smartcache/SmartRAID Plus,III,IV families (ISA/EISA/PCI) (EATA-DMA)

  Take a look at this page for more information. Cards in these families are PM2011, PM2021, PM2041, PM3021, PM2012B, PM2022, PM2122, PM2322, PM2042, PM3122, PM3222, PM3332, PM2024, PM2124, PM2044, PM2144, PM3224, PM3334

• DTC 3180/3280

• 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 here. 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 here. 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.

• Iomega PPA3 parallel port SCSI Host Bus Adapter embedded in ZIP drive

• Initio Corp. INI-9090U INI-9100, INI-9100W/A/UW, INI-9200U/UW, INI-9400U/UW, INI-9520U/UW, INI-A100U2W

• Initio Corp. INIC-950

• Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum 16 SCSI (ISA)

• Mylex (formerly BusLogic) W Series (PCI) (BT-948, BT-958, BT-958D)

• Mylex (formerly BusLogic) C Series (ISA/EISA/VLB/PCI) (BT-946C, BT-956C, BT-956CD, BT-445, BT-747C, BT-757C, BT-757CD, BT-545C, BT-540CF)

• Mylex (formerly Buslogic) S Series (ISA/EISA/VLB) (BT-445S, BT-747S, BT-747D, BT-757S, BT-757D, BT-545S, BT-542D, BT-742A, BT-542B)

• Mylex (formerly BusLogic) A Series (ISA/EISA) (BT-742A, BT-542B)

• 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 (the 53C710 is only supported in PCI variant)

• NCR chips 53C810(A), 53C815, 53C820, 53C825(A), 53C860, 53C875, 53C895 (53C895 supported 'on paper')

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

• Qlogic FASXXX/FASXX family of chips (ISA/VLB)

• QLogic IQ-PCI, IQ-PCI-10, IQ-PCI-D (PCI) (ISP1020 chip)

• Quantum ISA-200S, ISA-250MG

• Seagate ST-01/ST-02 (ISA)

• SIIG Ultrawide SCSI Pro (Initio chipset).

• 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

8.2. Alpha, Beta drivers

• AMD AM79C974 (PCI) (Compaq, HP, Zeos onboard SCSI)

  (driver)

• Adaptec ACB-40xx SCSI-MFM/RLL bridgeboard

  (driver)

• Always Technologies AL-500

  (driver)

• Iomega PC2/2B

  (driver)

• Ricoh GSI-8

  (driver)

8.3. Unsupported

• Adaptec AHA 2940UW Pro

• Adaptec AAA-13x RAID Adapters

• Adaptec AAA-113x Raid Port Cards

• Adaptec AIC-7810

• NCR chip 53C710 (ISA) (old obsolete chip, but still used in some Compaq models)

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

12.1. Non-intelligent cards

12.2. Intelligent cards

13.1. Supported

13.2. Alpha, Beta drivers

13.3. Unsupported

• 3Com 3C359 Velocity XL PCI

• 3Com 3C339 Velocity PCI

• IBM PCI LANStreamer, MCA LANStreamer token ring

• Intel TokenExpress PRO, TokenExpress 16/4

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

14.1. Supported

• 4Front Technology Virtual Mixer (includes SoftOSS)

• 4Front Technology Virtual Synth (SoftOSS)

• 6850 UART MIDI

• A-Plus Sound of Music (OPL3-SA)

• A-Trend Harmony 3Ds751 (PCI)

• AcerMagic S23

• Adlib FM synthesizer card

• Adlib MSC 16 PnP (CS4235)

• AMD Interwave reference card

• ARC Probook

• Audio Excell DSP16

• Avance Logic ALS-007 chip based cards. Code for this chip is integrated in the Sound Blaster 16 driver. Isapnptools should be used for configuration.

• AW32 Pro (R2.2-W2)

• AW35 (CS4237)

• AW37 Pro (CS4235)

• Aztech Sound Galaxy NX Pro, NX Pro 16, WaveRider 32+

• Aztech Washington

• BTC Mozart Sound System

• BTC-1831 Sound Card (Opti 1688)

• Bravo Sound Card (Opti 82C930)

• Bull PowerPc builtin audio

• CDR4235-6/-8

• CS32-3DI

• Compaq Deskpro XL integrated Business Audio

• Creative EMU8000 add on (PnP)

• Creative Phone Blaster 28.8/33.6

• Creative Sound Blaster 1.0 to 2.0

• Creative Sound Blaster Pro

• Creative Sound Blaster 16

• Creative Sound Blaster 16 ASP

• Creative Sound Blaster 16 PnP (type-1 up to type-10)

• Creative Sound Blaster 16 Vibra

• Creative Sound Blaster 2.x

• Creative Sound Blaster 32/AWE

• Creative Sound Blaster 32/AWE PnP (type-1 up to type-10)

• Creative Sound Blaster AWE64 (type-1 up to type-7)

• Creative Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold (type-1 and type-2)

• Creative Sound Blaster PCI64/128

• Creative Sound Blaster AWE64/Gold and 16/32/AWE PnP cards need to be activated using isapnptools

• Creative ViBRA16C/CL/S (type-1 and type-2) PnP

• Creative ViBRA16X PnP (half duplex only)

• CrystaLake Crystal Clear Series 100

• Crystal Audio (CS4235)

• Crystal CRD4236B-1E

• Crystal CRD4237B-5/-8

• Crystal CSC0B35 (CS4236B)

• Crystal CX4237B-SIDE

• Crystal Onboard PnP Audio (CS4235)

• Dell Latidude builtin audio

• Diamond Crystal MM PC/104

• Digital AXP builtin audio

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

• ESS 1868, 1869 (type-1 and type-2), 1878, 1879, 1968 PnP AudioDrive

• Ensoniq AudioPCI (ES1371)

• Ensoniq AudioPCI / SoundBlaster PCI (ES1370)

• Ensoniq Soundscape Elite

• Ensoniq Soundscape PnP (model 1 and 2)

• Ensoniq Soundscape S-2000

• Ensoniq Soundscape VIVO, VIVO90

• Ensoniq ActionNote 880 C/CX

• Gallant's sound card (SC-6000 and SC-66000 based)

• Generic AD1815 based soundcard (PnP)

• Generic CMI8330 based soundcard (PnP)

• Generic Crystal CS4232 based soundcard or motherboard (non PnP)

• Generic Crystal CS4232 by Acer (PnP mode)

• Generic Crystal CS4232 type-1 up to type-3 (PnP mode)

• Generic Crystal CS4235 type-1

• Generic Crystal CS4236 (type-1 up to type-3)

• Generic Crystal CS4236 based soundcard or motherboard (non PnP)

• Generic Crystal CS4236A (type-1 and type-2), CS4236B

• Generic Crystal CS4237 based soundcard or motherboard (non PnP)

• Generic Crystal CS4237B (type-1 and type-2)

• Generic Crystal CS4238 based soundcard or motherboard (non PnP)

• Generic ESS ES688, ES1688, ES1788, ES1868, ES1869, ES1887, ES1888 based soundcard or motherboard

• Generic Jazz16 based soundcard

• Generic MAD16 (OPTi 82C928), MAD16 Pro, MAD16 Pro (duplex) (OPTi 82C929)

• Generic Mozart soundcard (OAK OTI-601 chip)

• Generic OPTi 82C924, 82C925 based sound card (PnP)

• Generic OPTi 82C924 soundcard (non PnP mode). Use the MSS driver and the isapnp tools

• Generic OPTi 82C930

• Generic OPTi 82C931 (more info)

• Generic Soundscape based soundcard

• Generic Windows Sound System compatible

• Generic Yamaha OPL3-SA1 (YMF701) based soundcard

• Generic Yamaha OPL3-SA2 (YMF711) based soundcard (type-1, type-3, type-4)

• Generic Yamaha OPL3-SA3 (YMF715) based soundcard

• Generic Yamaha OPL3-SAx (YMF715/YMF719) non-PnP

• Gravis Ultrasound

• Gravis Ultrasound Extreme

• Gravis Ultrasound 16-bit sampling daughterboard

• Gravis Ultrasound MAX

• Gravis Ultrasound ACE

• Gravis Ultrasound PnP (with RAM), PnP Pro

• HP OmniBook 2100 (CS4236)

• Home Studio 64 (analog audio only)

• IBM Audio Feature (CS423x)

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

• Logitech SoundMan Wave (Jazz16/OPL4)

• Logitech SoundMan 16 (PAS-16 compatible)

• MED3201 audio card

• Maxi Sound 32 PnP (analog audio only)

• Maxi Sound 64 Dynamic 3D (analog audio only)

• Media Sound SW/32 (non PnP mode)

• MediaTriX AudioTriX Pro, 3D XG

• Media Vision Premium 3D (Jazz16)

• Media Vision Pro Sonic 16 (Jazz)

• Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum 16 (PAS-16)

• Media Vision Pro Audio Studio 16

• Media Vision Thunderboard

• Microsoft Windows Sound System board (AD1848)

• MiroSound PCM!-pro

• MultiWave AudioWave Green 16

• Music Quest MIDI connector card (MCC)

• Music Quest MQX-16, MQX-16S MIDI adapter

• Music Quest MQX-32, MQX-32M MIDI adapter

• Music Quest PC MIDI card

• NEC Harmony

• Orchid SoundDrive 16EZ

• Pine PT201

• Primax SoundStorm FM 16, SoundStorm Wave

• Pro Audio Spectrum 16, Studio 16

• RME Digi32, Digi32 Pro, Digi32/8

• Reveal SC300

• Reveal WaveExtreme Pro (with RAM)

• Roland MPU IPC-T MIDI adapter

• S3 SonicVibes

• Shark Mako

• Sharp PC8800

• Shuttle Sound System 48

• Spacewalker HOT-255 PCI 3D (PCI)

• TerraTec Maestro 32/96

• Terratec EWS64XL (audio only)

• Terratec Sound System Base 1 (AD1816)

• Terratec Sound System Base 64 (AD1816)

• Tomato Sound System (OPTi 82C930)

• Trust Sound Expert De Luxe Wave 32

• Turtle Beach Classic/Tahiti/Monterey

• Turtle Beach Maui

• Turtle Beach Monte Carlo 928, Monte Carlo 929

• Turtle Beach Pinnacle/Fiji

• Turtle Beach Tropez, Tropez Plus (audio only)

• Turtle Beach Daytona (audio only)

• Wearnes Classic 16

• Yamaha Sound Edge SW20-PC

• Zefiro Acoustics ZA2 (NOT RECOMMENDED)

• Zenith Z-Player

• 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 Intelligent mode (don't enable blindly)

  • MPU IPC-T

  • MQX-32M

• MPU-401 MIDI UART only dumb port (don't enable blindly)

• Yamaha FM synthesizers (OPL2, OPL3, OPL3-SAx (since kernel series 2.1.x) and OPL4)

OSS supports all MIDI daughter cards including Wave Blaster, TB Rio and Yamaha DB50XG. The only requirement is that the "host" card is supported by OSS. Note that only the "host" card needs to be configured using soundconf. The daughter card will be automatically accessible through the MIDI of the "host" card.

14.2. Alpha, Beta drivers

• 4Front Tech. Waveloop loopback audio device

• Acer FX-3D (AD1816 based)

• AVM Apex Pro card (AD1816 based)

• Aztech AZT1008, AZT2320, AZT3000

• Aztech SC-16 3D (AD1816 based)

• Creative Sound Blaster Vibra16x

• Creative Sound Blaster Live! and Live! Value Edition Creative Labs has beta driver for this card. They work with kernels 2.0.36 and 2.2.5 (and most probably newer kernels in these series). The drivers can be downloaded under the software download area at Creative's web site.

• Highscreen Sound-Boostar 32 Wave 3D (AD1816 based)

• Highscreen Sound-Boostar 16 (AD1816 based)

• HP Kayak (AD1816 based)

• IBM MWave

• Newcom SC-16 3D (AD1816 based)

• PC speaker / Parallel port DAC (driver)

• Rockwell WaveArtist chipset

• Sonorus STUDI/O

• SY-1816 (AD1816 based)

• Terratec Base 1, Base 64 (AD1816 based)

• Terratec EWS64S (AD1816 based)

• Turtle Beach Malibu (driver)

For the AD1816 sound chip based sound cards isapnptools is needed for configuration.

14.3. Unsupported

Please note that this section has not been updated recently. It is most likely incorrect.

• A-Trend Harmony 3DS724 (PCI)

• Actech PCI 388-A3D q

• Adaptec AME-1570

• Aureal Vortex (PCI)

• Cardinal DSP 16

• Contributed lowlevel drivers

• Crystal CS4614 (PCI)

• Cyrix MediaGX builtin audio

• Diamond Monster Sound MX300

• Diamond Sonic Impact

• Dream 94PnP Home Studio

• EON Bach SP901 (A3D)

• ESS (PCI)

• ESS Maestro-1 (PCI), Maestro-2 (PCI)

• ESS Solo-1 (PCI)

• Echo Personal Sound System

• Generic ALS007, ALS100 based soundcard

• Orchid NuSound 3D

• Orchid SoundWave 32

• Paradise DSP-16

• Quicknet Internet LineJACK

• Terratec XLerate (A3D)

• Turtle Beach Montego

• Turtle Beach TBS-2000

• Videologic SonicStorm

• Wearnes Beethoven ADSP-16

• Western Digital Paradise DSP-16

• Yamaha YMF724 (PCI)

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.

15.1. Unsupported

The following hard drives are mentioned as not supported by Linux. Read the bug report available.

• NEC D3817, D3825, D3827, D3847 "These drives are slightly non-SCSI-2 compliant in the values reported in Mode Sense Page 3. In Mode Sense Page 3 all NEC D38x7 drives report their sector size as zero. The NEC drives are the first brand of drive we have ever encountered that reported the sector size as zero. Unfortunately, that field in Mode Sense Page 3 is not modifiable and there is no way to update the firmware on the D38x7 drives to correct this problem." Problems are mentioned for D3825 and D3827 (both revision 0407). Revision 0410 of these two hard drives seems to solve this problem.

16.1. 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.)

  • Seagate Sidewinder 50 AIT (on ICP 6527 RAID-controller)

• QIC-02 drives

• Iomega Ditto internal (ftape 3.04c and newer)

16.2. Alpha, Beta drivers

• 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 here

• 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

16.3. 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

17.1. 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

17.2. Alpha, Beta drivers

• LMS/Philips CM 205/225/202 here

• NEC CDR-35D (old) here

• Sony SCSI multisession CD-XA here

• Parallel Port Driver here

17.3. 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 here 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.

20.1. 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

20.2. Alpha, Beta drivers

• Sejin J-mouse here

• MultiMouse - use multiple mouse devices as single mouse here

• Microsoft Intellimouse

20.3. Notes

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

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.)