HP HOWTO Configuration Guide and Use of HP Products under Linux (Version 0.94) Bruno Cornec Hewlett Packard Copyright © 1997-2001 Bruno Cornec 2001-12-21 Revision History Revision 0.8 - The 25th of July, 1999 - Revised by: Bruno Cornec Revision 0.85 - The 7th of September, 1999 - Revised by: Bruno Cornec Revision 0.86 - The 27th of September, 1999 - Revised by: Bruno Cornec Revision 0.87 - The 19th of January, 2000 - Revised by: Bruno Cornec Revision 0.88 - The 15th of March, 2000 - Revised by: Bruno Cornec Revision 0.89 - The 8th of July, 2000 - Revised by: Bruno Cornec Revision 0.90 - The 11th of August, 2000 - Revised by: Bruno Cornec Revision 0.91 - The 11th of October, 2000 - Revised by: Bruno Cornec Revision 0.92 - The 27th of December, 2000 - Revised by: Bruno Cornec Revision 0.93 - The 6th of March, 2001 - Revised by: Bruno Cornec Revision 0.94 - The 21th of December, 2001 - Revised by: Bruno Cornec This document describes the use of products available in the Hewlett-Packard (HP) catalog with Linux and some free software. It gives the state of the support for hardware, software to use, answers to some frequently asked questions and gives elements of sizing. The goals are to offer a general view of free software functions and their use at best with HP products; as well as to make new users of HP products rapidly operational and also to allow others to choose their products knowing facts. License This HOWTO is a free documentation thanks to Medasys and HP for whom I do that job; you may copy, redistribute and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Free_Documentation_License,_Version_1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, Front-Cover Texts or Back-Cover Texts. This document is distributed hoping it will be useful, but without any guaranty; you're completely responsible of its use, and couldn't complain in case it doesn't work, or even if it breaks the hardware. All the software included in it, if not already copyrighted is released under the GPL. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents 1. Introduction 1.1. Presentation 1.2. Aknowledgements 2. Presentation_of_Linux_and_Free_Software 2.1. Some_definitions 2.2. Free_software_concepts 2.3. Linux_and_other_operating_systems 3. Linux_and_HP_products 3.1. Informations_on_HP_products_and_Linux 3.2. HP_hardware_supported_by_Linux 3.3. HP_software_and_free_software 3.4. Support_of_HP_solutions_under_Linux 3.5. Training_on_HP_Linux_solutions 3.6. HP_as_an_Open_Source_Software_user_and_contributor 4. Solutions_and_Sizing 4.1. Linux_as_file_and_print_server 4.2. Internet/Intranet_Linux_server 4.3. Linux_as_computing_server 4.4. Linux_as_an_office_server 5. Frequently_Asked_Questions_(FAQ) 6. Customer_References 7. References 8. Contributors 9. Future_versions A. GNU_Free_Documentation_License 0. PREAMBLE 1. APPLICABILITY_AND_DEFINITIONS 2. VERBATIM_COPYING 3. COPYING_IN_QUANTITY 4. MODIFICATIONS 5. COMBINING_DOCUMENTS 6. COLLECTIONS_OF_DOCUMENTS 7. AGGREGATION_WITH_INDEPENDENT_WORKS 8. TRANSLATION 9. TERMINATION 10. FUTURE_REVISIONS_OF_THIS_LICENSE How_to_use_this_License_for_your_documents List of Tables 2-1. Performances_of_Free_Software 3-1. Brio_and_Linux 3-2. Vectra_and_Linux 3-3. e-PC_and_Linux 3-4. Kayak_and_Linux 3-5. Desktop_computer_accessories 3-6. Visualize_and_Linux 3-7. HP_workstation_and_Linux 3-8. Workstations_accessories 3-9. OmniBook_and_Linux 3-10. Mobile_computer_accessories 3-11. Jornada_and_Linux 3-12. NetServers_and_Linux 3-13. NetServers_accessories 3-14. HP_Monitors_and_Linux 3-15. HP_IA-64_Servers_and_Linux 3-16. HP_IA-64_Workstations_and_Linux 3-17. Printer_Control_codes 3-18. Scanners_and_Linux 3-19. Cameras_and_Linux 4-1. Sizing_of_a_file_server 4-2. Sizing_of_a_print_server 4-3. Sizing_of_a_static_Web_server 4-4. Sizing_of_a_dynamic_Web_server 4-5. Sizing_of_an_e-mail_server 4-6. Sizing_of_a_Firewall/Proxy/Web-Cache_server 4-7. Sizing_of_a_LDAP_server 4-8. Sizing_of_an_office_server 7-1. Web_sites_of_HP 7-2. Other_fundamental_sites_on_Linux_and_Open_Source_Software List of Figures 2-1. Server_operating_system_repartition_in_1998_(IDC). 2-2. Server_operating_system_repartition_in_1999_(IDC). 2-3. Web_server_software_by_Netcraft_between_1995_and_2001. 2-4. Repartition_of_Internet_servers_by_IOS_Counter_in_April_1999. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 1. Introduction 1.1. Presentation This document is a guide on the use of products proposed by the hardware manufacturer Hewlett-Packard (HP) under Linux. It's a quick reference guide, covering all what you need to know to size, install and configure your products under Linux, or which complementary software will be useful for their use. Frequently Asked Questions find answers, and references are given concerning other sources of information related to HP technologies and applications. Opinions expressed here are those of the author, and don't commit both Medasys or Hewlett-Packard . Informations are provided in the aim to be useful to the readers. However, there can't be, through this document, any warranty of any kind either from Medasys or HP on these systems under Linux, as well as from myself. Neither Medasys, nor HP, nor the author could be responsible for any problem caused by the use of this information. However, software editors don't guarantee you a lot either (re-read the contracts). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.1.1. New versions of this document New versions of this document will be announced regularly on the Usenet groups news:fr.comp.os.linux.annonces and news:comp.os.linux.annonces. They will also be updated on the various anonymous ftp sites which archive such information, mainly ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/. Hypertext versions of this and other Linux HOWTO are available on many web sites, including http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO and http://www.freenix.org/unix/ linux/HOWTO. Most Linux distributions on CD-ROM include the HOWTO, often under the /usr/share/doc, directory, and you can also buy printed copies from several vendors. Sometimes the HOWTO available from CD-ROM vendors, ftp sites or printed format are out of date. If the date on this HOWTO is more than 6 months in the past, then a newer copy is probably available on the Internet. The site of reference for this HOWTO is http://www.hyper-linux.org/HP-HOWTO/current Old versions of this document are also available at If you make a translation of this document into another language, please let me know so that I can include a reference to it here. The following versions are currently available : http://www.HyPer-Linux.org/HP-HOWTO/old * French by * English by * Japanese by As english isn't a native language for me, I would really appreciate any correction on the english version. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.1.2. Suggestions and contributions I rely on you, the reader, to make this HOWTO useful. If you have any suggestions, corrections, or congratulations :-) don't hesitate to send them to me , and I will try to incorporate them in a next revision. I've created a mailing-list dedicated to this document. Every person interested to contribute can register at mailto: sympa@eurolinux.grenoble.hp.com?subject=subscribe%20hp-howto, I am also willing to answer general questions on HP hardware and software with Linux, as best I can. Before doing so, please read all of the information in this HOWTO, and then send me detailed information about the problem. If you publish this document on a CD-ROM or in hardcopy form, a complimentary copy would be appreciated; mail me for my postal address. Also consider making a donation to the Linux Documentation Project to help support free documentation for Linux. Contact the Linux HOWTO coordinator, Guylhem AZNAR . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.2. Aknowledgements Most of the information provided here come from research made in HP documentations, files provided with Linux kernel sources, the FAQ of the Usenet newsgroup news:comp.sys.hp.hpux with a HTML_version available on all mirror sites like the CICT, my own experience on HP products, a lot of tests and deployments realised, and remarks from Linux users as well as many HP's engineers. Numerous people have contributed to this document and augmented its contents. You'll find the most complete possible list in the Chapter_8. I would like to thank just now, without any particular order, those without whom this document would simply not exist : * Marc Hia Balié , who ordered that document and accepted to make it a free documentation. * Linus_Torvalds, for the Linux project (without it, nothing would exist). * Richard_Stallman, for the GNU project (without it, nothing would exist either). * Nat Makarévitch , for his work as translator and his advocacy conferences. * Xavier Cazin , for his talent to convince me to use DocBook. * Eric Dumas , for the management of the french LDP. * Rémy Card , for ext2 and his love of electricity :-) * René Cougnenc, to have helped a lot of people to begin with Linux, including myself. * Dany Coffineau , for teachnig me Unix. * François Strobel , for his peacefulness and legendary patience :-) * Frédéric Dubuy , who contributed to the writing of that document and took all the work I couldn't achieve, while I was writing it. Without saying he's also the graphist of the logo ! * Alain Pascal , for the several tests made. * Pascal Lemonnier typography expert who found a lot of typos. * Ralf S. Engelschall , who realised the wml tool set, used to manage the languages of this document. * Cees de Groot , who realised the SGMLTools used to generate the first version of this document. * Norman Walsh , who realised the SGML DTD DocBook. which allows to generate all the versions of this document from a single SGML source. * James Clark , who realised the tool Jade. * Cornec family , for his patience and his support. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 2. Presentation of Linux and Free Software 2.1. Some definitions Before going into more details in the presentation, it could be useful to give some definitions of terms and software mentionned in that HOWTO. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.1.1. Free Software or Open Source software A free software (or Open Source software) is a software distributed with its source code, allowing its study, its transmission, its adaptation. The problem, in english, is the use of free, which has both meanings of "at no cost" and "without constraint". Here, it's the second use which has to be considered, hence the use of Open Source. To remember, think of free as speech, not beer. Depending on the licenses used for its development, the constraints for users of such a software are various. The most open licenses (like the BSD one) allow code appropriation by third parties, including the resell of the resulting software (with or without modification) in commercial products, without any problem, and without owing something else to the originators than the mention of their copyright. Other licenses (like the GNU Public License or GPL) force every modified GPL software to be free GPL software itself ; this doesn't allow the use of such programs in a commercial one. Many other licenses exist, more or less open: the Artistic License (perl), the NPL one (mozilla), the QPL one (Qt) ... A vast majority of free software is today under the GPL license, even if the BSD world takes always a great place, however less visible, mainly in the press. Linux is placed under the GPL. To have more information on these definitions and the licenses, please refer to the following reference sites : GNU_project_Web_site You find there all information on the GNU project, including the licenses produced (GPL and LGPL) and various discussions on free software. Open_Source_project_Web_site This site proposes a new definition, a bit less restrictive, of free software - called here OpenSource Software - by well-known people. FreeBSD_project_Web_site Here are explained the advantages of the very open BSD license. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.1.2. Examples and counter-examples First of all, free software and freeware shouldn't be mixed up. A freeware is not necessarily a software provided with its sources, on the contrary of a free software. On the other side, on the contrary of a freeware, you may be charged to obtain a free software (it's not in contradiction with the license used). The ambiguity, as stated before, comes from the word "free" . A freeware is then free of charge, but not necessarily "free of sources". (As well, the shareware has nothing to do with free software). So examples of important and well-known free software are the Linux and FreeBSD operating systems, the Apache Web server, the SaMBa SMB server, GNU C and C++ compilers ... A contrario, examples of well-known freeware are the Internet Explorer browser, the Eudora Light mail reader, ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.1.3. Linux Linux is a free operating system, superset of the POSIX norm. "Linux" points out the kernel alone. By extension, the name is also given to distributions based on that kernel plus a set of tools from the GNU project. Linux is by consequence a Unix system, except that it doesn't use any proprietary code and is furnished under the GPL license, implying the availability of the sources. As every Unix system, Linux is multi-tasking and multi-user. It's also extremely portable, and it is available officialy today on processors such as Intel (i386 to Pentium IV), Alpha, Motorola (680x0 and PowerPC), Sparc, StrongArm, Mips. Without mention of the ports, operational or in process on PalmPilot, Itanium (ex-Merced), PA-Risc, Crusoe ... The system is today perfectly stable and mature. Versions "x.y.z" of the Linux kernel, where "y" is an even number, are stable and only bug corrections are generaly applied when "z" increases. Versions "x.y.z" of the Linux kernel, where "y" is an odd number, are development versions which may be instable and are reserved to developers or intrepids. From time to time, when the kernel development stabilizes a "freeze" is announced to furnish a new "stable" version (even), and the development goes on on a new version (odd). The current stable version is the version 2.4.16 (this last number may evolve following the rythm of corrections). Development has on the other side begun again with a 2.5 version. Numerous presentations of Linux are currently available. Among them, you should consult the one made by Michael Johnson at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/INFO- SHEET.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.1.3.1. Linux technical characteristics The system offers the following technical characteristics : * Multi-tasking : executes several programs in pseudo-parallel. * Multi-users : many users acting on the same machine at the same time (without worrying on licenses). * Portable and interoperable : works on several hardware architectures. All the sources are available. Linux supports a lot of file systems, outside the native ext2 : System V, BSD, Sun, MS-DOS, VFAT, NTFS, Mac, HPFS, EFS, ISO9660. On the network side, it supports the following protocols TCP/IP v4 and v6, Appletalk, Netware (client and server), Lan Manager SMB (client and server), X-Window, NFS, PPP, SLIP, UUCP. * Performant architecture : modular kernel, built at will, execution in protect mode on 80x86 processors, page load on demand, page share between executables when reading, virtual memory with swap on disk, use of a dynamical disk cache in memory, dynamic libraries, process management, pseudo terminals, virtual consoles. * Security : protection of memory between processes: one user program can't compromise the whole system operation. The kernel may also, on the other hand, filter network packets. * Respect of norms and standards : Posix, with System V and BSD extensions. Support of COFF and ELF binaries. Binary compatibility with SCO, SVR3/ 4 through the iBCS2 module. Native Language Support as well as national keyboards, fonts... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.2. Free software concepts Once the definitions are given, it is important to stay on at ideas promoted by the free software movement. It's important as well to clear some wrong ideas hawked on these software. This section gives then a various set of elements in favour of the introduction of free software and ends on the real problems remaining to solve. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.2.1. Free software philosophy In fact, the philosophy promoted by the free software movement is not that different from the one proposed by the scientific movement till a long time already: to put in common ideas and collective knowledge to allow the progression of the research and the growth of this knowledge. The knowledge of the human genome is one of the examples of such a collaborative work. The computer engineering environment, and especially the software one, seems to have turn away till the last 20 years from these base concepts of the scientific world. It prefers on the contrary to keep the customer captive instead of giving him the information needed to exploit his computing environment the best he can. That's indeed following such a problem at the begining of the 80's that Richard Stallman, who was doing researches in artificial intelligence at the MIT, decided to create the GNU project. This project is the foundation of the current free software movement. The main ideas promoted by this movement and stated by Richard Stallman himself are : * Liberty: every user should be free to copy, diffuse, modify a program, either to share it with others, or to adapt it to his own needs. As well, he should be able to analyse it to understand, imitate, improve, verify its operations, as well as every scientific result is published and seen by the peers for verification, study, understanding and realisation of derived works. Could you imagine a vaccine against the liver cancer that another laboratory couldn't derive to make a vaccine against the pancres cancer. Of course, the negative impact of patents at that level is obvious. * Equality: every person should have the same rights on the software. Thus the provider isn't priviledged and can't keep customers to whom he furnished his work captive. Could you think that only the producer of our vaccine could use it ? With software patents, if you don't pay, you cannot use them (think to discussions around RANT and W3C standards). * Fraternity: this mode of working encourages the whole computer engineering community to cooperate and thus to produce software more and more reliable and useful to all. Could you imagine that a discovery like the vaccine above couldn't help everyone and favour other discoveries. Again with software patents, nothing like that is possible. More over the utopy of these ideas, we can find other reasons which allowed free software to spread so widely today. They are detailed in Section_2.2.2. The free software movement materializes itself also through a community of people. That community, informal meeting of personnalities, is heterogeneous in its contents, actions, ideas, even if all share the same belief in the freedom of the software. That community created for itself the tools needed to its communication : Internet and Usenet. And these communication tools are based of course on a lot of free software to work. Among the outstanding persons of this movement, we can present : * Linus_Torvalds, conceptor of Linux. * Richard_Stallman, GNU project conceptor. * Eric_S._Raymond, writer of several and excellent articles, which inspired so many vocations. * Larry_Wall, author of Perl and of the patch tool, and philosopher. * Alan Cox, mister "do everything". * Tim O'Reilly , free software advocate and editor of several books dedicated to them. All these personalities are, above all, excellent computer engineers, which allows them to be recognized as major actors of the free software movement. Their human and communication qualities are also strong characteristics of their nature. In any case they aren't considered for their power, but for their knowledge. Of course, the free software community is built of thousands of programmers, whose complete list would be too tedious. All share the will of producing useful work, free, and to be recognized for their technical qualities above all. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.2.2. The choice of free software To use free software to bring solutions in a computing environment is a choice. First, it is in favour of a plurality of solutions, mainly in the personal computer world which tends to be monopolistic. Then, the choice is made, and that's what is finally important, on the own qualities of free software, which are detailed just below. Source code access This point is the most important of the choice, because it allows the undestanding, adaptation, correction, distribution, improvement of the software. Reliability That quality is derived from the previous one: the free software is the combined result of the experience and the intelligence of all the participants. Its reliability increases then as time passes, with all the corrections which are made. More over, no marketing pression requires the software's producer to deliver it to its customers before it is in a satisfactory state. Portability This quality is not intrinsic to free software, but is very often seen in a free software. Indeed if a softawre meets success, it will necessarily be adapted to other environments than those initialy considered. Thus by increasing its disponibility, its portability and reliability are also increased. linux works today on a HP Jornada or IBM watch, as well as on s390 or SuperDome. Universality One essential quality of free software is the character naturaly universal of the data format used. Even if they don't follow standards, the availibility of the source code assures the user that he will understand them, and more over be able to write any filter needed to reuse these data or exchange them with other software. This allows also users to stabilize their environment, because they are not required to migrate due to incompatibility of data formats in their applications. Don't forget that your data are precious ans thet it's better to archive them under a *ML format (HTML, XML, SGML, ...) rther than a proprietary one. Performance Resulting from a lot of examinations, the use of algorithms coming from advanced research works, as well as tested by various usages, free software have good performances by nature. Frequently large portions of code are rewritten to allow the reuse of the original ideas with a better code and thus to increase performances. Several tests made by various organisms tend to prove it also Table 2-1. Performances of Free Software Subject URL Apache Web Server and competitors http://www5.zdnet.com/products/content/ pcmg/1709/305867.html SMB SaMBa server vs Windows NT http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/ 0,4538,2196106,00.html Once more, there is no obligation to diffuse an application whose performances would be bad. Interoperability Interoperability is a reality of today's enterprises. Historically, Unix environment was always a ferment for interoperability with other systems (big or medium size systems, as well as personal computers). The support in Linux, for example, of a lot of network protocols, filesystem formats, and even binary compatibility modes assures a good interoperability. By the way, interoperability requires 2 actors, and having only one open is generally not sufficient. That's the goal of having RFCs, norms, standards, ... Reactivity When considering the more and more longer development cycles of the software editors, the reactivity brought by the free software movement is interesting for a lot of sites, concerned by the rapid obtention of corrections to a given problem. Thus, during the recent discoveries of IP problems (ping of the death,...), patches were always available within the next 3 days. And above that, only the patch correcting the hole found was delivered. There were no functionality added, which could have create other instabilities. Security The best computing security possible is ensured by a robust construction, public and reknown algorithms, a quick communication around flaws, ... In other words by transparency. Obscurity is in this domain bad, useless and even dangerous. In the free software world, the reactivity described in the previous paragraph is a garanty of increased security, ... at the condition that patches are applied regularly. Independantly of its qualities, it's possible to give other reasons of various nature, in favor of free software, depending on the type of the person met. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.2.2.1. Marketing argumentation Studies from IDC bring to light the irresistible rise of Linux as a server operating system. In 1998, Linux is credited with 17% of market share, with an increase of 212%, which is the most important in that domain. The following graphics give the whole market share repartition. Figure 2-1. Server operating system repartition in 1998 (IDC). This was confirmed in 1999 with a market share climbing to 24% and an ancrease of 93%, always more than four times the increase of the follower. Figure 2-2. Server operating system repartition in 1999 (IDC). Dataquest estimates on its side that Linux servers will represent, with 1.1 million of units, 14% of the servers sold in 2003. The Net itself produces marketing tools to demonstrate the superiority of free software. Counters are regularly updated by Netcraft and others, on web server software, and another was done by IOS_Counter for the servers on Internet. Results, reproduced below, show the importance taken by Apache with more than 16 millions of operational sites (among them 30% run Linux), crushing the competition, as well as the free operating systems Linux and *BSD which dominate the world of Internet servers. Figure 2-3. Web server software by Netcraft between 1995 and 2001. Figure 2-4. Repartition of Internet servers by IOS Counter in April 1999. A detailed explanation based on the most precise numbered results is also regularly updated, showing the advantages to use free and open source software, Cf: http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.2.2.2. Financial argumentation Financial factors also speak for free software. And first the price to aquire them is low. Low, because it's never zero. Even if you can find it on the Internet, you have to consider the costs related to that link. However costs are greatly less expensive than for commercial software. So a RedHat 7.2 Linux distribution, delivered with more than 1400 software packages, costs about 60 USD when you have to pay more than 800 USD to obtain Windows 2000 server, delivered only with IIS. On the other side, free software don't have the notion of license by user or by supplmentary service. Thus there is no additional cost when you have to increase the use of these software in your entity. That's of course not the case with commercial software whose economical logic is often based on the number of licenses. Free software bring in addition a better mastering of the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership), mentionned so frequently in the massive deployment of personal computers. Thus administration costs are reduced because systems like Linux or FreeBSD, as Unix, are managed completely remotely, either through command line orders (with telnet or ssh) or in graphical mode by using X-Window. More over, we benefit from a true multi-users mode, improving these management operations. Always in this domain, it's also possible to do remote management, either through the own hardware capacities of the machine (as the Remote Assistant card integrated in most HP NetServers), or by doing a remote connexion (through modem, ISDN adapter or a permanent link) thanks to the native PPP protocol and secure connexion systems as tunneling or ssh. This managemnt could even be realised by an external entity, in outsourcing. At last, the costs due to the hardware themselves could be controled; on one side, if by chance free software don't meet the needs, it's always possible to buy then commercial software solutions to cover the rest on the same hardware. On the other side, solutions based on free software have good performances by nature, and can use hardware platforms which would be considered as obsolete, if installed following the standard criterias of other operating systems or applications. The fact to separate the graphical interface from the rest of the working system is here key. It's so possible to use "old" hardware, mainly to model. It's then possible to invest, with a fine knowledge, when puting the solution in operation, if needed. The power increase may naturaly take place progressively. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.2.2.3. Technical argumentation This argumentation was already given in the previous sections. I think nevertheless that some notions may be explained with complementary information. So concerning the reliability aspects of free software based solutions, it's important to note that it implies an operational running time very high (standard characteristic of Unix systems in general). This is mesured by the command uptime. One of Medasys and HP customers, Saint-Michel Hospital in Paris, has a Vectra VL5 acting as router under Linux since more than 300 days. And that's not a isolated case. Respect of standards and norms, as well as the extreme portability of free software assures also to applications developed on these platforms the same qualities. And notably, if after their use, the performances or services brought by free software based architectures were insufficient (it may be caused by architecture problems such as PCI bandwidth, number of processors available, ...), it would be easy to migrate to machines offering more performances and capacities of evolution, as the HP 9000 systems, running HP- UX. At last a development plan centered around performances implies a modularity, such as it's possible to resize the system kernel nearest to the capacities of the hardware or to use dynamically loaded modules following the needs. A packages installation may vary from 40 MB for a minimal system up to many GB for a complete distribution. The system linearity allow also the support of multi-processors machines (SMP) (tested up to 32 processors on a Sparc machine). The system modularity allows also to obtain an operational system on a 1.44 MB floppy disk, either to realize a minimal repair environment, or to provide a perfectly operational router. The world of embedded systems shows besides more and more interest for systems such as Linux, because above it's modularity, source availability makes communication with dedicated peripherals easier (acquisition cards, sonde, ...). Entities as CERN or Thomson already use such solutions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.2.2.4. Solutions argumentation That argumentation is probably the most important of all, because it's useless to have free software if it's not to make something useful with it or to offer solutions to demands of entities willing to use it. In which sectors free softawre may bring solutions today ? Well, you have to admit it's in nearly all the sectors of enterprise computing. Historically, Open Source Software were used to realise Internet/Intranet servers, because their growth was following the one of the Net. It's so possible to cover all aspects linked to the Internet, from the Web server ( Apache ), FTP server (Wu-Ftpd), DNS server (Bind), the E-Mail server (Sendmail or PostFix ), the Usenet groups server (INN), the proxy server (IPmasqadm), the firewall (IPChains or IPTables), Virtual Private Network (OpenSSH), the Cache server for the Web ( Squid ) or also the Time server (NTP) or as directory service(LDAP) server, or as content management(Midgard) server ... All these software are available in standard in a Linux distribution. The client computer should be equiped with the software corresponding to the application used (mail reader, news reader, web browser, ...) whatever its operating system. The choice of the client is free, as all these tools respect the standards decreed in the RFCs. The second preferential domain for free software is the file and print server domain. For these services, clients may be multiple: Unix type (use of NFS and KNFS or also Coda and Inter-Mezzo, for file sharing and of lpd or CUPS for print service), Microsoft Windows type (use of SaMBa , which allows also the use of local client printers), Novell type (use of Mars_nwe) or MacIntosh type (use of NetAtalk). All these software are provided in standard in a Linux distribution and don't need any modification at the client level to work. The other domains where a system such as Linux may bring solutions is the computation one, with support of multiprocessor, linked to the realisation of clusters_with_multiple_nodes with Mosix or BeoWulf with high-speed network interfaces (100 Mbit/s, Gigabit or Myrinet); those of data security with the support of HP NetRaidRem. cards, allowing Raid level of 0, 1, 3, 5, 10, 50, and HotSpare disks, managed by the harware; those of centralized fax server, with a free software like HylaFAX or also as an archive/backup server with HP SureStore DAT or DLT libraries thanks to a GPL software like Amanda or a commercial one like Arkeia or at last as a database server with free solutions like PostgreSQL,MySQL or commercial like Oracle, to speak only of these three. On the client side, even if it's less highlighted for the moment, possibilities to use solutions based on free or commercial software are numerous. Here also the Internet part is the main one, with tools like graphical web browsers (Netscape, Mozilla or Konqueror) or textual (lynx or w3m), a lot of graphical mail readers (Kmail, XFMail, ...) or textual (mutt, elm, ...). But you also have the whole panel of indispensable tools for a personal computer today as a PDF reader (Acrobat_Reader or xpdf), image manipulation tools (ImageMagick, the Gimp, RealPlayer_tools ...), word processors (LyX, LaTeX, SGMLTools, Wordperfect, ...), commercial office suites (ApplixWare, StarOffice), or opensource (Koffice, OpenOffice, ...), sound management tools (Xmms, eplaymidi, xmcd, ...), CD burning tools (cdrecord, BurnIT, ... with complements as mkisofs, cdparanoia, cdrdao), free and commercial emulators for various systems (Wine, Executor, WABI, DOSEmu,Win4Lin, VmWare...), compilers and interpretors for all the languages (C, C++, Pascal, Fortran, Basic, Tcl/Tk, Perl, Python, Ada, Eiffel, Lisp, Scheme, Prolog...), including commercial versions (PGI, Intel...), graphical environments (Gnome, KDE, Motif, OpenMotif, ...). The evolution of these last tools indicates that the 2000's may be the years where Linux and free software will break through at their turn on the client. I want to mention that this document was realised on an HP Brio BAx, then on a Vectra VL400 equiped only with a Linux distribution, with the help of tools like DSSSL_style_sheet, OpenJade and DocBook, ViM which allowed to generate from a single source the formats HTML, Txt, RTF, PostScript, and PDF. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.2.2.5. Service argumentation This one was for a long time a blocking point to the expansion of free software in the firms. It's not the case today. Many service providers or hardware manufacturers, like HP, control today these solutions and propose support around them, uoto missions critical if requested. Other sources of information are also available, in abundance, through several web sites dedicated to these solutions, specialised mailing-lists, and various Usenet groups, such as for Linux, the international groups under comp.os.linux.* or for the french speaking people under fr.comp.os.linux.*. Concerning competences, more and more young engineers or academics finish their learning cycle being trained to the use of free applications and operating systems. This wealth of competences arrives now on the labour market and will contribute to increase the movement of generalisation of these tools. At last, many firms have internaly ignored competences. In fact, their employees often install this software at home, and have a good mastering, usable when arrives the deployment of the software in their professional structure. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.2.3. Wrong ideas on free software Advocating free software consists also to mention some generally accepted ideas concerning them and to fight them. "There is no support, no training" As seen previously, support is currently structuring itself. A firm like RedHat provides today support for their solutions. Only in France, we may mention firms like Medasys , Atrid, Alcove which assure support on free software. Likewise, always in France, training on free software may be given by HP_France, Learning_Tree, the IUT_de_Vélizy, without mentioning generic network and Unix trainings (besides proposed also by the same organizations) which represent a fundamental base in a training course. And at last, we should mention the ability of each of us to self-train, mainly thanks to the huge documentation available (See the Chapter_7). "There is no documentation" There is a whole set of manuals, the Linux_Documentation_Project, made of FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) and HOWTO, counting more than 300 documents around Linux, the main being translated_in_french, and in japanese available as free documentation. This documentation has a various quality, more or less up to date, following the subjects, certainly but it makes a corpus allowing to apprehend alone a Linux distribution and all its components. For myself, I always found in it everything I needed to do my job with free software. And, in case of complementary information, a lot of web sites and Usenet groups may again bring some of the elements needed. And without counting the innumerable manual pages available on line. Each distribution comes also with a comprehensive set of manual covering all the tasks of installing, handling and managing them. On the other side, the editors O'Reilly and SSC have specialised in providing books around free software, written generaly by the writers of the software themselves. Their books are considered as reference books in their respective domains. "A free or nearly free product is a toy" You should always make a difference between free (as speech) and free (as beer). Too many freeware in Microsoft environment are in fact toys and of poor quality. It's absolutely not the case for free software, as stated in the previous sections. Remember just that they are reliable by construction. "Linux is difficult to install" Linux is a professional operating system. At that title, it requires competences to install it, as well as any other professional operating system, like the other Unix or Windows NT for example. But it isn't more difficult to install than those either, mainly thanks to distributions as RedHat, Mandrake, ... You need about 30 minutes to realize a complete installation of such distributions, so quite the same as for HP-UX and noticeably less than for Windows NT Server. On the other hand, as before installing a server with Windows NT you have to verify its compatibility with the Hardware_Compatibility_List of Microsoft, for Linux it's also greatly recommended to verify the Hardware HOWTO, and for HP machines to refer to Section_3.2. "Free Software are not adequate for heavy tasks" This is less and less true and this criticism has been obsoleted with the latest versions of the Linux kernel which will include a journalised filesystem, allowing a true application cluster. But already Linux authorises the use of multi-processors, several nodes to realise computation clusters. And don't forget it's used by the portal Voila (France Telecom) or the engine Google among other prestigious references. As well, FreeBSD is used with success as the world biggest ftp server : Walnut_Creek_CDROM_server Useful projects to consult in this area of high availability are http://www.linux-vs.org, http://www.opengfs.org and http://www.linux-ha.org "What appeal do I have in case of problem with the editors ?" There is no appeal, because software licences deny all responsabilities for the writers, in case of problem. But, in reality developers are always ready to help in case of problem and try to correct as soon as possible the bugs encountered (for the F00F bug of the pentium, a patch for the Linux kernel was published within 3 days, for example). On the other side, commercial editors guarantee very badly users against problems other than packaging errors. Please read the notes furnished with your software to judge. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.2.4. Real problems around free software It would not be honest to negate certain remaining problems linked to free software. Some have begun to disappear, other are inherent to the system, other at last will take time to diappear. The first problem, inherent to the model of free software, is the multiplicity of tools and distributions available. So, if you want to setup a mail server, you have to choose between Sendmail, Exim, PostFix, Qmail, Smail. As well if you want to install Linux, you may choose between the distributions RedHat , SuSE, Slackware, Mandrake, Turbo_Linux, Debian. This represents often a problem for the newcomer, but the esperienced user will always prefer to have a large choice he will confront to his particularities and to his experience. As long as an actor respects the rules by freeing his code (it's the case of the rpm and deb formats for example), there is little risk from the comunity point of view. The key point is that the choice is made only taking in account technical criterias. The second problem, inherent also to the free software birth, is the necessity to have strong Unix and Internet competences, to manage such solutions. The power available through these systems is proportional to the competence of their administrators. And that will stay true even with the growth of more and more grahical solutions to manage them. On the other side, you capitalize the investment in time to learn their functions and that doesn't disappear, because you don't have to re-learn eveything from one version to the other (I use the same editor, vi, for the last 15 years). Don't forget that systems you use daily seem to be simple, uniquely because you passed enough time to learn them. For Internet competences, it's a statement of the obvious to say that this investment isn't lost. At last, even with the work of translators to provide information in french and other languages, a good knowledge in technical english is definitively a plus. The last problem met in the implementation of free software solutions is to suceed in convincing some managers to go against the prevailing opinion. The aim of this chapter is precisely to give all sorts of argumentations to achieve that goal, but you need each time to show conviction to get his way in the end. As soon as these solutions will be adopted by big firms principaly, resistances will disappear. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.3. Linux and other operating systems The aim is not to examine completely or to compare the functions of the various operating systems available. It's more upon looking at the respective positions of Linux in comparaison with other systems. Only systems having a sufficient representation on the market are considered. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.3.1. Linux and other proprietary Unix (HP-UX, Tru64, AIX, Solaris, Irix) The situation taken by all the hardware manufacturers places Linux today in the entry level (when it's taken in account) and their own Unix system in the middle and high level. Reality is sometimes more cruel than the situation wanted by the marketing department :-). Technically, a Linux distribution has no cause to be envious of the manufacturers Unix solutions, except for the moment the set of commercial applications and some high-end hardware configuration support. And we can often see that users dope their Unix workstations with free software to complete their usage. To be precise in the talk, we should consider manufacturers Unix solutions as split in stations and servers. On the station side, there's no doubt in my mind: for a customer, the only reason today to buy one is linked to the availability of a software or a hardware which wouldn't exist in the free environment, or due to intrinsic performances of the machine. In the first case, we can see that this argument should have a short life time, because logically every software editor (except maybe hardware manufacturers) and every hardware manufacturer has interest in porting their applications or allowing the use of their hardware on all the major environments in the market. As shown by Oracle, Informix, Sybase, ... Linux becomes today one of the major environments. In the second case, the difference in term of performances between the Linux dominant platform (IA-32) and the other competitors decreases and will disappear with the generalisation of the IA-64 architecture, which seems to be adopted largely by a majority of actors. More over, Linux is often available natively on the processors of these actors (Sparc, Mips, PowerPC, 68xxx, Alpha, Crusoe, PA-Risc). I think Linux may represent the famous unique and standard Unix that everybody dreamed of from a long time, without succeeding to impose it (the open and free characteristics brought by Linux are not without influence on that). I think that at the end hardware manufacturer Unix workstations will be restricted to some niches such as high end computation, virtual reality, ... and that as long as solutions are not available on a free environment. Linux offers all the functional qualities of the other Unix systems, and thus of the workstation, on a more various hardware platform and potentially at a better price, if on PCs. So it is the natural choice of every computer engineer with a strong Unix culture (old customer of the workstation) who will prefer that solution to the migration to a Microsoft system typically. With IA-64, we can see that Linux was the first operating system available (including graphical support). On the server side, in addtion to the points mentionned previously for the stations, problems are more complex. Ram, disks, processors capacities, extensions of every kind make them difficultly repleacable by machines with a IA-32 architecture for example. More over, certain solutions such as high availability clusters for example have just been put in production in a Linux environment, compared to years of operation under Unix. The other brake is often linked to investments already done around software solutions deployed on these servers. Whatever their natural life time is much higher than those of the stations. Changes will thus be made more slowly in that domain. Here we can consider rightly Linux solutions as an entry/middle level solutions, when hardware manufacturer Unix servers are the middle/high level. The introduction of Linux in place of these machines will begin only with a massive availability of applications, mainly in the management sector. Again IA-64, with increased SMP capabilities (16 processors today), higher bandwidth, ... will make things change. The advantages of the hardware manufacturer solutions, explaining why they are so often chosen when applications are critical, are linked to the homogeneity of the solution (hardware and software mastered by the same entity, which can't invoke a third party in case of problem), and to the support and maintenance guarantees furnished. Finally, there is not so much antagonism between these systems, because they are full cousins. Their association allows today to computer teams "pro-Unix" to have solutions from start to finish, without having to lose in functions, as it's so often the case with other operating systems available for personal computers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.3.2. Linux and SCO/Caldera The comparaison between Linux and the SCO systems seems to me quite unbalanced. First, all the previous points are vaild here also. More over, SCO isn't a hardware manufacturer, so the homogeneity advantage disappears. The IA-32 Intel platform is supported by both systems, so cost is identical. On the other hand, the software solution has a disproportionate cost (few software provided in the base install, thus a lot of expenses to extend, as well as to increase the number of users). Having to manage one OpenServer, I can say that performances are far beyond those of a Linux system. More over, its conception is older, abounds of symbolic links which makes management complex. The hardware supported by SCO is less numerous than those Linux supports. Only stay as an advantage the installed base and the set of applications available. But for how long ? Caldera now owns both SCO software (Openserver and Unixware) and its own Linux distribution. But instead of trying to free technologies from SCO, they are proprietarizing their linux (1 license per server). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.3.3. Linux and Windows NT/2000/XP The comparaison is here more difficult, because Windows NT/2000/XP isn't an open system, as the precedings, which is already redhibitory for certain users. An excellent comparaison was made by John Kirch between Unix and Windows NT Server. I recommend to people searching to have an enlightened opinion on this subject to read it; it's updated regularly and was written by a specialist of both Microsoft and Unix operating systems. Financially, obvious advantage for the free software. And it's more obvious, as for SCO, if you consider the set of complementary software you need to use a server. The author evaluates the difference from 1 to 100 all the same ! Technically, either on the functions provided or on the reliability, the administration, the performances, the hardware supported, and more over the security, Unix systems and particularly free systems outperform what is proposed by Windows NT/2000/XP. The fact to have a GUI non independant from the kernel contributes greatly to the instability of NT/2000/XP, because it's more difficult to avoid errors in a GUI (there is no mastering possible of the user comportment in front of it) rather than in a kernel. Which are the real advantages of Windows NT ?: the marketing power of Microsoft which persuades the world that computers equal Windows and which leans on the enormous installed base; its office applications (a monopolistic situation on the market) only available in this environment; the confusion maintained between the various flavours of Windows (95/98, NT, 2000), and between the server and client functions; its agreements with the biggest hardware manufacturers which often require them to provide a Microsoft system with their platforms; its technological initiatives to occupy the market in first, based on proprietary code and that often without respect of known or documented standards, or its policy to embrace for killing a movement (described in the "Haloween_documents"). The lack of hegemony in the servers sector is the best reason to hope that a plurality of solutions may exist in the future for computers users, also at the desktop. The new XP licensing schema, the passport tool, the registering mechanism during installation are real brakes for users thinking to migrate from a current platform to a new one, as well as the hardware costs linked. In that perspective, an opensource solution should and will be more and more considered. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 3. Linux and HP products To maintain such a chapter is an endless task :-). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.1. Informations on HP products and Linux 3.1.1. General information HP became recently concious of the importance taken by Linux and free software in general, and on its machines particularly. Thus a web site dedicated to Linux in HP environment is now available at http://www.hp.com/go/linux. In France, there is for a longer time a site on these themes, under the responsability of Jacques Misselis , hosted by l'École Centrale_de_Lyon at the address http://hpwww.ec-lyon.fr/hpeduc/education. On the other side, the firm Medasys for which I worked between 1996 and 2000, put at disposition of the community a certain number of information since 1997, available at http://www.medasys.fr/linux. This HOWTO is the result of this work. HP also realised a synthesis document (PDF format) concerning his position in front of Linux, the White_Paper_HP_Linux_Strategy (1999-04). HP is a member or sponsor of Linux_International,Open_Source_Development_Lab, and Linux_Standard_Base. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.1.2. Particular announces HP also communicates through its web site around Linux and free software. You'll find some links here. * FireHunter announce (10/06/1998) http://www.hp.com/communications/solutions/isp/tools/pressroom/releases/ pr032999a.html * Covision program announce (01/27/1999) http://www.hp.com/pressrel/jan99/27jan99b.htm * Linux support on NetServers and IA-64 announce (01/27/1999) http://www.hp.com/pressrel/jan99/27jan99.htm * PA-Risc port announce (03/01/1999) http://www.hp.com/pressrel/mar99/01mar99e.htm * Informix HP association announce (03/02/1999) http://www.hp.com/pressrel/mar99/02mar99i.htm * Kayak Linux support (03/17/1999) http://www.hp.com/pressrel/mar99/17mar99e.htm * World Linux support announce (04/20/1999) http://www.hp.com/pressrel/apr99/20apr99a.htm * HP OpenView announces (05/17/1999) http://www.openview.hp.com/solutions/itsm/press/press.asp?docid=314 * Availability of Apache on HP 3000 (Summer/1999) http://www.businessservers.hp.com/falladvisor/sum99/Summer99/apache.html * Visualize Linux support announce (06/21/1999) http://www.hp.com/pressrel/jun99/21jun99g.htm * Open Source Software commitment by HP (08/09/1999) http://internetsolutions.enterprise.hp.com/linux/news/PRelease4.html * Aberdeen group analysis on HP position on free software (08/09/1999) http://internetsolutions.enterprise.hp.com/linux/news/ aberdeen_white_paper.html * HP Linux vision (01/01/2000) http://www.hp.com/visualize/programs/news/archive/linuxvision.html * HP announces the certification of its DAT and DLT products under Linux (02/ 02/2000) http://www.hp.com/pressrel/feb00/02feb00c.htm * HP Brings Award-winning 3-D VISUALIZE Graphics to Linux Desktop (02/02/2000) http://www.hp.com/pressrel/feb00/02feb00b.htm and http:// internetsolutions.enterprise.hp.com/linux/feb02page.html * HP and Intel Release IA-64 Developer's Kit for Linux (06/13/2000) http://www.hp.com/pressrel/jun00/13jun00a.htm * HP Announces Linux Support for State-of-the-art 3-D Graphics Accelerators (07/25/2000) http://www.hp.com/pressrel/jul00/25jul00b.htm * HP Expands Commitment to Linux (08/14/2000) http://www.hp.com/pressrel/aug00/14aug00.htm * HP adds Linux support for its Chai appliance platform Software (09/26/2000) http://www.linux.hp.com/news_events/press_releases/linux_chai.html * HP NetServers make Linux Hum for Solid State Design http://netserver.hp.com/netserver/docs/download.asp?file=cs_solid.pdf * Medasys chosen by Hewlett-Packard France Education/Research as Linux competence center http://hpwww.ec-lyon.fr/hpeduc/education/offre/linux/educ_linux.html * Hewlett-Packard France Education/Research announces commitment to Linux promotion http://hpwww.ec-lyon.fr/hpeduc/education/offre/linux/hp_linux.html * HP's open letter to the Open source Community (10/18/2000) http://www.linux.hp.com/news_events/open_letter.html * HP Ultrium Tape Drives Certified to be Linux Compatible (11/21/2000) http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/21nov00b.htm * Bruce Perens, Open Source advocate, joins HP (12/04/2000) http://www.itworld.com/Comp/2362/LWD010404hpdrivers/:w! * OSDL opens today with 19 sponsors including HP (01/24/2001) http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/24jan01b.htm * HP Extends Linux Support for Enterprise Solutions (01/31/2001) http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/31jan01a.htm * HP's commitment for Linux during Linux-Expo Paris 2001 (02/02/2001) http://www.france.hp.com/main/une/temoignages/linux/expo.php3 * HP opens print driver source code (04/04/2001) http://www.linux.hp.com/news_events/perens.html * EMEA announces around Linux (Trusted Linux, Mandrake Certification, ...) (08/ 2/2001) http://www.HyPer-Linux.org/HP-HOWTO/mirror/Press/PREMEA20010822.pdf * B. Maillard Interview (HP France) (08/24/2001) http://solutions.journaldunet.com/itws/010824_it_hp_maillard.shtml * HP Expands Open Source Offerings with Linux Security Software and Embedded Software Platform for Intelligent Devices (08/27/2001) http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/27aug01b.htm * HP Builds Supercomputer from Off-the-Shelf Parts (Oct. 2001) http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2001/oct-dec/supercomputer.html * HP's Linux stratégy http://www.hpbriefingroom.com/north_america/linux/index.html * HP, Red Hat Provide Selected Universities Worldwide with Grants of Red Hat Linux Software http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/06nov01a.htm * I've participated to a conference organised by Cyperus during the Linux-Expo Paris 2001. You could see it at this address rtsp://discovery.oleane.net:554/ 2001/janvier/linuxexpo/linux207.rm HP France has also published an article on Linux and free software in its May 1999 issue of HP Computer News, an article on HP Linux support in the September 1999 issue, and an article on Linux RedHat solutions on HP Visualize workstation in the November 1999 issue. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.2. HP hardware supported by Linux This section presents HP hardware supported today by Linux. Informations are based on the latest stable version of the Linux kernel, which is currently version 2.4.16. A development kernel (version 2.5) is also available but doesn't offer any guarantee of stability. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.2.1. Intel based computer range Page last updated the 2001-12-21. That computer range is today the main set of HP machines supported by Linux, and that till many years. In case you didn't already do it before, some preliminaty readings are recommended before to try to install Linux on these platforms. The Linux_Installation_HOWTO contains a great number of information to install Linux. If you bought linux on a CD-ROM, chances are that installation instructions are provided with it (the little booklet inside the disk case, and/or files on the CD). The Linux_Kernel_HOWTO should be read to have details on kernel construction. I will just mention here points which are specific to HP hardware. Outside particular indication, Linux support means during the installation of a RedHat/Mandrake type distribution. In special cases, a kernel rebuild will be necessary to support completely some hardware elements. You should note that what is true for one distribution is generally true for another, as these functions are linked to the kernel or the XFree86 server, and not to the distribution itself. In case of problem, the first reflex should be to update the BIOS of the HP machine, and to verify whether the problem is always there. If yes, you may then contact HP support, if your configuration is supported by HP (This document focus on what is working, superset of what is supported, and has no value in that area). On the other hand, if your machine is working correctly, don't update the BIOS without reason, this is always a risked operation. BIOS updates are available from http://www.hp.com/cposupport/software.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.2.1.1. The desktop range (Brio, Vectra, Kayak) HP has a new program called "Freedom of Choice" on the whole desktop range. Linux is thus one of the operating systems pushed by HP. Cf: http://www.hp.com/ desktops/linux/ and http://www.hp.com/pressrel/aug00/14aug00.htm. A FAQ is also available. HP insures the support of certified Linux hardware by the following method : all the machines have the Diagtool utility. If this utility indicates a problem, it's taken in account by HP maintenance. If it doesn't, it's considered as a software problem and should be reported to the distribution provider. The following tables indicate the state of Linux support by these platforms : Table 3-1. Brio and Linux _______________________________________________________________________________________ |Machine |Graphic |Linux |Network|Linux |SCSI|Linux |Sound |Linux |Tested| |____________|Card______|support____|Card___|support|Card|support|Card__|support_|______| |Brio | | | | | | | | | | |(D5522A, | | | | | | | | | | |D5526A, | | | | | | | | | | |D5857A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6665A, | | | | | | | | | | |D5838A, | | | | | | | | | | |D5848A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6514A, | | | | | | | | | | |D5527A, | | | | | | | | | | |D5528A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6666A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6675A, |S3 Trio |Yes XFree | | | | | | | | |D5849A, |64V2 PCI |3.3.6Rem. |None |N/A |None|N/A |??? |??? |Yes | |D5839A, | |(S3) | | | | | | | | |D5859A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6666A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6510A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6515A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6667A, | | | | | | | | | | |D5840A, | | | | | | | | | | |D5861A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6668A, | | | | | | | | | | |D5840C, | | | | | | | | | | |D5841A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6516B)_____|__________|___________|_______|_______|____|_______|______|________|______| |Brio |ATI Rage |Yes XFree | | | | | | | | |(D6810A, |Pro ZX AGP|4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None|N/A |??? |??? |No | |D6812A)_____|__________|(ati)______|_______|_______|____|_______|______|________|______| |Brio | | | | | | | | | | |(D6638A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6639A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6640A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6644A, |ATI Rage |Yes XFree | | | | | | | | |D7901A, |Pro ZX AGP|4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None|N/A |??? |??? |No | |D7902A, | |(ati) | | | | | | | | |D6645A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6646A) | | | | | | | | | | |Chipset | | | | | | | | | | |BXRem.______|__________|___________|_______|_______|____|_______|______|________|______| |Brio |Matrox |Yes XFree | | | | | | | | |(D5841A, |Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None|N/A |??? |??? |No | |D6516B)_____|II_PCI____|(mga)______|_______|_______|____|_______|______|________|______| |Brio | | | | | | | | | | |(D6760A, | | | | | | | | | | |D7671A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6908A, | | | | | | | | | | |D7930A, | | | | | | | | | | |D7672A, |Matrox |Yes XFree | | | | | | | | |D7925T, |Productiva|4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None|N/A |??? |??? |No | |D6776A, |G100 |(mga) | | | | | | | | |D6769A, |AGPRem. | | | | | | | | | |D6755A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6895A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6896A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6897A, | | | | | | | | | | |D7931A)_____|__________|___________|_______|_______|____|_______|______|________|______| |Brio BA | | | | | | | | | | |(D7581A, | | | | | | | | | | |D7584A, | |Yes XFree | | | | |Cirrus| | | |D7585A, |Sis 5595 |4.1.0Rem. | | | | |Logic |Yes | | |D7587A, |AGP |in Frame |None |N/A |None|N/A |CS |driver |No | |D7586A, | |Buffer mode| | | | |4614 |AlsaRem.| | |D7591A, | |(FBDEV)Rem.| | | | | | | | |D7594A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8411A)_____|__________|___________|_______|_______|____|_______|______|________|______| |Brio BAx | | | | | | | | | | |(D7600A, | | | | | | |Cirrus| | | |D7603A, |Matrox |Yes XFree | | | | |Logic |Yes | | |D7624A, |Productiva|4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None|N/A |CS |driver |Yes | |D7625A, |G200 AGP |(mga) | | | | |4614 |AlsaRem.| | |D7630A, | | | | | | | | | | |D7610A)Rem._|__________|___________|_______|_______|____|_______|______|________|______| | |Matrox |Yes XFree | | | | |Cirrus|Yes | | |Brio BAx |Productiva|4.1.0Rem. |??? |??? |None|N/A |Logic |driver |No | |(D7605A)Rem.|G200 AGP |(mga) | | | | |CS |AlsaRem.| | |____________|__________|___________|_______|_______|____|_______|4614__|________|______| |Brio BA400 | | | | | | | | | | |(D8760A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8761A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8763A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8764A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8767A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8768A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8769A, | |Yes XFree | | | | | | | | |D8934A, |Intel i810|4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None|N/A |??? |??? |Yes | |D8935A, |AGPRem. |(i810) | | | | | | | | |D8936A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8943A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8947A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8952A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8953A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9720A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9721A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9724A)_____|__________|___________|_______|_______|____|_______|______|________|______| |Brio BA410 | | | | | | | | | | |(P1682A, | | | | | | | | | | |P1683A, | | | | | | | | | | |P1686A, | | | | | | | | | | |P1687A, | | | | | | | | | | |P1689A, | | | | | | | | | | |P1692A, | | | | | | | | | | |P1694A, | | | | | | | | | | |P1710A, | | | | | | | | | | |P1711A, | | | | | | | | | | |P1718A, | | | | | | | | | | |P1719A, | | | | | | | | | | |P1720A, | | | | | | | | | | |P1722A, | | | | | | | | | | |03237A, | | | | | | | | | | |P2738A, | | | | | | | | | | |P2739A, | | | | | | | | | | |P2741A, | | | | | | | | | | |P2743A, | | | | | | | | | | |P2745A, | | | | | | | | | | |P2746A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3235A, | |Yes XFree | | | | | |Yes | | |P3263A, |S3 Savage |4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None|N/A |VIA |driver |Yes | |P3264A, |AGPRem. |(savage) | | | | |82C686|AlsaRem.| | |P3265A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3266A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3267A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3268A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3269A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3271A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3272A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3662A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3663A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3664A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3665A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3666A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4848B, | | | | | | | | | | |P4849B, | | | | | | | | | | |P4855B, | | | | | | | | | | |P4869A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4870A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4872A, | | | | | | | | | | |P5816B, | | | | | | | | | | |P5817B, | | | | | | | | | | |P5821B, | | | | | | | | | | |P5822A)_____|__________|___________|_______|_______|____|_______|______|________|______| |Brio BA410 | | | | | | | | | | |(P1716A, | | |SMC | | | | | | | |P1721A, |S3 Savage |Yes XFree |1211 TX|Yes | | |VIA |Yes | | |P1723A, |AGPRem. |4.1.0Rem. |EZ Card|driver |None|N/A |82C686|driver |Yes | |P3270A, | |(savage) |10/100 |rtl8139| | | |AlsaRem.| | |P3273A, | | |BT | | | | | | | |P4873A)_____|__________|___________|_______|_______|____|_______|______|________|______| |Brio BA410 |nVidia |Yes XFree | | | | | |Yes | | |(P2744A, |GeForce 2 |4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None|N/A |VIA |driver |No | |P3274A, |GTS AGP |(nv) | | | | |82C686|AlsaRem.| | |P3667A)_____|__________|___________|_______|_______|____|_______|______|________|______| |Brio BA600 | | | | | | | | | | |(D8770A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8771A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8772A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8773A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8778A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8780A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8783A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8784A, | | | | | | |Cirrus| | | |D8785A, |Matrox |Yes XFree | | | | |Logic |Yes | | |D8788A, |Productiva|4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None|N/A |CS |driver |Yes | |D8789A, |G200 AGP |(mga) | | | | |4614 |AlsaRem.| | |D8963A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9070A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9072A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9080A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9082A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9085A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9091A) | | | | | | | | | | |Chipset | | | | | | | | | | |BXRem.______|__________|___________|_______|_______|____|_______|______|________|______| |Brio BA600 | | | | | | | | | | |(D8406A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8774A, | | | | | | |Cirrus| | | |D8781A, |Matrox |Yes XFree | | | | |Logic |Yes | | |D8787A, |Productiva|4.1.0Rem. |??? |??? |None|N/A |CS |driver |No | |D8967A, |G200 AGP |(mga) | | | | |4614 |AlsaRem.| | |D9075A) | | | | | | | | | | |Chipset | | | | | | | | | | |BXRem.______|__________|___________|_______|_______|____|_______|______|________|______| Table 3-2. Vectra and Linux _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ |Machine |Graphic |Linux |Network|Linux |SCSI |Linux |Sound |Linux |Tested | |______________|Card______|support____|Card___|support__|Card___|support____|Card____|support____|________| |Vectra xe310 | | | | | | | | | | |(P5829A, | | | | | | | | | | |P5833A, | | | | | | | | | | |P5881A, | |Yes XFree | | | | |Intel | | | |P5902A, |Intel i810|4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None |N/A |82810 |Yes driver |Mandrake| |P5904A, |AGPRem. |(i810) | | | | |Audio |AlsaRem. |8.1 | |P6014B, | | | | | | | | | | |P6015B, | | | | | | | | | | |P6016A, | | | | | | | | | | |P6138A)_______|__________|___________|_______|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| | | | |SMC | | | | | | | |Vectra xe310 |Intel i810|Yes XFree |1211 TX|Yes | | |Intel |Yes driver |Mandrake| |(P5865B, |AGPRem. |4.1.0Rem. |EZ Card|driver |None |N/A |82810 |AlsaRem. |8.1 | |P5891A) | |(i810) |10/100 |rtl8139 | | |Audio | | | |______________|__________|___________|BT_____|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| | | | |SMC | | | | | | | |Vectra xe310 |Intel i810|Yes XFree |1211 TX|Yes | | |Intel |Yes driver |Preload | |(P6137A) |AGPRem. |4.1.0Rem. |EZ Card|driver |None |N/A |82810 |AlsaRem. |Mandrake| | | |(i810) |10/100 |rtl8139 | | |Audio | |8.1 | |______________|__________|___________|BT_____|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VE5 | | | | | | | | | | |(D5592A, | | | | | | | | | | |D5602A, | | | | | | | | | | |D5603A, | | | | | | | | | | |D5604A, | |Yes XFree | | | | | | | | |D5606N, |S3 Trio |3.3.6Rem. |None |N/A |None |N/A |??? |??? |Yes | |D5608A, |64V2 PCI |(S3) | | | | | | | | |D5612A, | | | | | | | | | | |D5615A, | | | | | | | | | | |D5618A, | | | | | | | | | | |D5607A, | | | | | | | | | | |D5617A)_______|__________|___________|_______|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VE7 | | | | | | | | | | |(D6530A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6531A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6533A, |ATI Rage |Yes XFree | | | | | | | | |D6610A, |II C AGP |4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None |N/A |??? |??? |Yes | |D6611A, | |(ati) | | | | | | | | |D6615A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6616A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6613A)_______|__________|___________|_______|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VE7 | | |3Com | | | | | | | |(D6532A, |ATI Rage |Yes XFree |905B-TX|Yes | | | | | | |D6612A, |II C AGP |4.1.0Rem. |10/100 |driver |None |N/A |??? |??? |Yes | |D6617A, | |(ati) |BTRem. |3c59xRem.| | | | | | |D6618A)_______|__________|___________|_______|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VE8 | | | | | | | | | | |(D6550A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6560A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6570A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6554A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6584A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6540A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6541A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6544A, |Matrox |Yes XFree | | | | | | | | |D6543A, |Productiva|4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None |N/A |AZTEC |Yes driver |Yes | |D6578A, |G100 |(mga) | | | | |2320Rem.|AlsaRem. | | |D6573A, |AGPRem. | | | | | | | | | |D6574A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6580A,D6581A,| | | | | | | | | | |D6584A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6583A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6593A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6597A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6598A) | | | | | | | | | | |Chipset_BXRem.|__________|___________|_______|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VE8 | | | | | | | | | | |(D6552N, | | | | | | | | | | |D6562N, | | | | | | | | | | |D6565N, | | | | | | | | | | |D6542A, |Matrox | |3Com | | | | | | | |D6572A, |Productiva|Yes XFree |905B-TX|Yes | | |AZTEC |Yes driver | | |D6575A, |G100 |4.1.0Rem. |10/100 |driver |None |N/A |2320Rem.|AlsaRem. |Yes | |D6582A, |AGPRem. |(mga) |BTRem. |3c59xRem.| | | | | | |D6595A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6582A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6585N, | | | | | | | | | | |D6599A) | | | | | | | | | | |Chipset_BXRem.|__________|___________|_______|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VEi7 | | | | | | | | | | |(D8112A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8117A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8121A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8123A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8124A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8126A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8128A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8129A, | |Yes XFree | | | | | | | | |D8131A, | |4.1.0Rem. | | | | | | | | |D8133A, |Sis 5595 |in Frame |None |N/A |None |N/A |??? |??? |Yes | |D8134A, |AGP |Buffer mode| | | | | | | | |D8136A, | |(FBDEV)Rem.| | | | | | | | |D8138A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8139A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8141A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8143A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8144A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8145A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8148A, | | | | | | | | | | |P1618A, | | | | | | | | | | |P1619A)_______|__________|___________|_______|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VEi7 | | | | | | | | | | |(D8118N, | |Yes XFree |3Com | | | | | | | |D8122A, |Sis 5595 |4.1.0Rem. |905B-TX|Yes | | | | | | |D8127N, |AGP |in Frame |10/100 |driver |None |N/A |??? |??? |No | |D8132A, | |Buffer mode|BTRem. |3c59xRem.| | | | | | |D8137A, | |(FBDEV)Rem.| | | | | | | | |P1620A)_______|__________|___________|_______|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VEi8 | | | | | | | | | | |(D8166A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8168A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8151A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8153A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8155A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8169A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8171A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8173A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8174A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8181A, |Matrox |Yes XFree | | | | | | | | |D8183A, |Productiva|4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None |N/A |??? |??? |No | |D8184A, |G200 AGP |(mga) | | | | | | | | |D8186A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8188A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9784A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9785A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9786A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9788A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9791A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9793A, | | | | | | | | | | |P1626A, | | | | | | | | | | |P1628A, | | | | | | | | | | |P1633A)_______|__________|___________|_______|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VEi8 | | | | | | | | | | |(D8167N, | | | | | | | | | | |D8152N, | | | | | | | | | | |D8172N, |Matrox |Yes XFree |3Com |Yes | | | | | | |D8182N, |Productiva|4.1.0Rem. |905B-TX|driver |None |N/A |??? |??? |No | |D8187N, |G200 AGP |(mga) |10/100 |3c59xRem.| | | | | | |D9787N, | | |BTRem. | | | | | | | |D9789A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9792N, | | | | | | | | | | |P1627A)_______|__________|___________|_______|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VL5 | | | | | | | | | | |(D4552A, | | | | | | | | | | |D4543A, | | | | | | | | | | |D4554A, | | | | | | | | | | |D4555A, | | | | | | | | | | |D4556A, | | | | | | | | | | |D4557A, | | | | | | | | | | |D4558A, | |Yes XFree | | | | | | | | |D4559A, |S3 Trio |3.3.6Rem. |None |N/A |None |N/A |??? |??? |Yes | |D4560A, |64V2 PCI |(S3) | | | | | | | | |D4567A, | | | | | | | | | | |D4562A, | | | | | | | | | | |D4563A, | | | | | | | | | | |D4572A, | | | | | | | | | | |D4574A, | | | | | | | | | | |D4576A, | | | | | | | | | | |D4579A, | | | | | | | | | | |D4577A)_______|__________|___________|_______|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| | |Cirrus |Yes XFree | | | | | | | | |Vectra VL6 |Logic GD |4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None |N/A |??? |??? |Yes | |______________|5446_PCI__|(cirrus)___|_______|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| | |Matrox |Yes XFree | | | | | | | | |Vectra VL6 |Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None |N/A |??? |??? |No | |______________|II_PCI____|(mga)______|_______|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VL7 | | | | | | | | | | |(D5710A, | | | | | | | | | | |D5711N, | | | | | | | | | | |D5725A, |Cirrus |Yes XFree | | | | | | | | |D5720A, |Logic GD |4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None |N/A |??? |??? |Yes | |D5721N, |5465 |(cirrus) | | | | | | | | |D5731N, |AGPRem. | | | | | | | | | |D5797N, | | | | | | | | | | |D5737A, | | | | | | | | | | |D5799N)_______|__________|___________|_______|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VL7 | | | | | | | | | | |(D5734N, |Matrox |Yes XFree | | | | | | | | |D5729N, |Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None |N/A |??? |??? |No | |D5739N, |II PCI |(mga) | | | | | | | | |D5728N, | | | | | | | | | | |D5798N)_______|__________|___________|_______|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VL7 |Cirrus |Yes XFree |AMD |Yes | | | | | | |(D5724N, |Logic GD |4.1.0Rem. |79C971 |driver |None |N/A |??? |??? |No | |D5796N) |5465 |(cirrus) |KC 10/ |pcnet32 | | | | | | |______________|AGPRem.___|___________|100_BT_|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VL8 | | | | | | | | | | |(D5880A, | | | | | | | | | | |D5882A, | | | | | | | | | | |D5890A, | | | | | | | | | | |D5891A, |Matrox |Yes XFree | | | | | | | | |D5893A, |Productiva|4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None |N/A |??? |??? |No | |D5896A, |G100 |(mga) | | | | | | | | |D5898A, |AGPRem. | | | | | | | | | |D5900A, | | | | | | | | | | |D5902A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6945A) | | | | | | | | | | |Chipset_BXRem.|__________|___________|_______|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VL8 | | | | | | | | | | |(D5881A, |Matrox | |3Com | | | | | | | |D5883A, |Productiva|Yes XFree |905B-TX|Yes | | | | | | |D5894A, |G100 |4.1.0Rem. |10/100 |driver |None |N/A |??? |??? |No | |D5888A, |AGPRem. |(mga) |BTRem. |3c59xRem.| | | | | | |D5892A) | | | | | | | | | | |Chipset_BXRem.|__________|___________|_______|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VL8 |Matrox |Yes XFree |3Com |Yes | | | | | | |(D5887A) |Productiva|4.1.0Rem. |905B-TX|driver |??? |??? |??? |??? |No | |Chipset BXRem.|G100 |(mga) |10/100 |3c59xRem.| | | | | | |______________|AGPRem.___|___________|BTRem._|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VL8 |Matrox |Yes XFree | | | | | | | | |(D6944A) |Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None |N/A |??? |??? |No | |Chipset_BXRem.|G200_AGP__|(mga)______|_______|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VL8 | | |3Com | | | | | | | |(D6940A, |Matrox |Yes XFree |905B-TX|Yes | | | | | | |D6941A, |Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |10/100 |driver |None |N/A |??? |??? |No | |D6942A) |G200 AGP |(mga) |BTRem. |3c59xRem.| | | | | | |Chipset_BXRem.|__________|___________|_______|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VL8 |Matrox |Yes XFree |3Com |Yes |Adaptec| | | | | |(D6943A) |Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |905B-TX|driver |AIC |Yes driver |??? |??? |Yes | |Chipset BXRem.|G200 AGP |(mga) |10/100 |3c59xRem.|7880 UW|aic7xxxRem.| | | | |______________|__________|___________|BTRem._|_________|PCI____|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VLi8 | | | | | | | | | | |(D7941A, | | | | | | | | | | |D7943A, | | | | | | | | | | |D7945A, | | | | | | | | | | |D7948A, | | | | | | | | | | |D7951A, | | | | | | | | | | |D7953A, | | | | | | | | | | |D7955A, | | | | | | | | | | |D7961A, | | | | | | | | | | |D7963A, | | | | | | | | | | |D7965A, |Matrox |Yes XFree | | | | |Cirrus | | | |D7958A, |Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None |N/A |Logic CS|Yes driver |Yes | |D7968A, |G200 AGP |(mga) | | | | |4614 |AlsaRem. | | |D7969A, | | | | | | | | | | |D7973A, | | | | | | | | | | |D7976A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9459A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9460A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9463A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9467A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9774A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9810A, | | | | | | | | | | |P1894A, | | | | | | | | | | |P1898A)_______|__________|___________|_______|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VLi8 | | | | | | | | | | |(D7826A, | | | | | | | | | | |D7836A, | | | | | | | | | | |D7837A, | | | | | | | | | | |D7846A, | | | | | | | | | | |D7847A, | | | | | | | | | | |D7848A, | | | | | | | | | | |D7856A, | | | | | | | | | | |D7857A, | | | | | | | | | | |D7866A, | | | | | | | | | | |D7867N, | | | | | | | | | | |D7876A, | | | | | | | | | | |D7877N, | | | | | | | | | | |D7942A, | | | | | | | | | | |D7949A, | | | | | | | | | | |D7952A, | | |3Com | | | | | | | |D7959A, |Matrox |Yes XFree |905C-TX|Yes | | |Cirrus |Yes driver | | |D7962A, |Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |10/100 |driver |None |N/A |Logic CS|AlsaRem. |Yes | |D7969A, |G200 AGP |(mga) |BT |3c59xRem.| | |4614 | | | |D7972A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8696A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8697A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8950A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9456A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9457N, | | | | | | | | | | |D9461A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9462A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9770N, | | | | | | | | | | |D9771N, | | | | | | | | | | |D9775A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9778A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9779N, | | | | | | | | | | |D9809A, | | | | | | | | | | |P1896A, | | | | | | | | | | |P1899A)_______|__________|___________|_______|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VL400 | | | | | | | | | | |(D9815A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9816A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9817A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9818A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9819A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9820A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9821A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9822A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9824A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9826A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9828A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9829A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9830A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9831A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9833A, | | | | | | | | | | |P1555A, | | | | | | | | | | |P1556A, | | | | | | | | | | |P1557A, | | | | | | | | | | |P1558A, | | | | | | | | | | |P1560A, | | | | | | | | | | |P2260A, | | | | | | | | | | |P2261A, | | | | | | | | | | |P2266A, | | | | | | | | | | |P2265A, | | | | | | | | | | |P2778A, | | | | | | | | | | |P2779A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3351A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3353A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3389A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3390A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3391A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3394A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3614A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3615A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3616A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3618A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3687A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3691A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3694A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3697A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3698A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3699A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3700A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3702A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3704A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3728A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3730A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3732A, | | |3Com | | | | | | | |P3733A, |Intel i815|Yes XFree |905C-TX|Yes | | |Intel |Yes driver | | |P3734A, |AGPRem. |4.1.0Rem. |10/100 |driver |None |N/A |82810 |AlsaRem. |Yes | |P3735A, | |(i810) |BT |3c59xRem.| | |Audio | | | |P3736A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3737A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3738A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3739A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3740A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3743A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3744A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3745A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3746A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3747A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4110A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4116A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4119A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4120A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4121A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4128A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4129A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4130A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4134A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4136A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4137A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4138A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4140A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4352A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4354A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4355A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4368A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4369A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4370A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4371A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4745A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4746A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4747A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4748A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4752A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4753A, | | | | | | | | | | |P5060A, | | | | | | | | | | |P5069A, | | | | | | | | | | |P5075A, | | | | | | | | | | |P5120A, | | | | | | | | | | |P5121A, | | | | | | | | | | |P5123A, | | | | | | | | | | |P5125A, | | | | | | | | | | |P5126A, | | | | | | | | | | |P5133A, | | | | | | | | | | |P5144A, | | | | | | | | | | |P5598A) | | | | | | | | | | |Chipset | | | | | | | | | | |i820Rem.______|__________|___________|_______|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VL400 | | | | | | | | | | |(D9825A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9827A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9832A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9834A, | | | | | | | | | | |P1554A, | | | | | | | | | | |P1559A, | | | | | | | | | | |P1561A, | | | | | | | | | | |P1562A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3352A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3384A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3686A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3701A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3703A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3617A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3619A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3688A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3689A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3690A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3692A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3693A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3695A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3696A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4112N, |Matrox |Yes XFree |3Com |Yes | | |Intel | | | |P4113N, |Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |905C-TX|driver |None |N/A |82810 |Yes driver |RedHat | |P4114N, |G450D |(mga) |10/100 |3c59xRem.| | |Audio |AlsaRem. |7.0 | |P4115A, |AGPRem. | |BT | | | | | | | |P4117A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4118A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4122A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4123N, | | | | | | | | | | |P4124N, | | | | | | | | | | |P4125N, | | | | | | | | | | |P4126N, | | | | | | | | | | |P4127N, | | | | | | | | | | |P4133A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4356A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4357A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4358A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4359A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4360A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4361A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4362A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4363A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4364A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4365A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4366A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4167A) | | | | | | | | | | |Chipset | | | | | | | | | | |i820Rem.______|__________|___________|_______|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VL400 |Matrox |Yes XFree |3Com |Yes | | |Intel | | | |(P2257A) |Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |905C-TX|driver |None |N/A |82810 |Yes driver |No | |Chipset |G400D AGP |(mga) |10/100 |3c59xRem.| | |Audio |AlsaRem. | | |i820Rem.______|__________|___________|BT_____|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VL400 |nVidia |Yes XFree |3Com |Yes | | |Intel | | | |(P5083A) |GeForce 2 |4.1.0Rem. |905C-TX|driver |None |N/A |82810 |Yes driver |No | |Chipset |GTS AGP |(nv) |10/100 |3c59xRem.| | |Audio |AlsaRem. | | |i820Rem.______|__________|___________|BT_____|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VL410 | | | | | | | | | | |(D4768A, | | | | | | | | | | |P5622A, | | | | | | | | | | |P5957A, | | | | | | | | | | |P5958A, | |Yes XFree |Intel |Yes | | |Analog | | | |P5959A, |Intel i810|4.1.0Rem. |PRO 10/|driver |None |N/A |Device |Yes driver |No | |P5960A, |AGPRem. |(i810) |100 BT |eepro100 | | |1885 |AD1885 | | |P5962A, | | | |or e100 | | | | | | |P5963A, | | | | | | | | | | |P6096A, | | | | | | | | | | |P6097A, | | | | | | | | | | |P6098A)_______|__________|___________|_______|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| | |nVidia |Yes XFree |Intel |Yes | | |Analog | | | |Vectra VL410 |GeForce 2 |4.1.0Rem. |PRO 10/|driver |None |N/A |Device |Yes driver |No | |(P5964A) |GTS AGP |(nv) |100 BT |eepro100 | | |1885 |AD1885 | | |______________|__________|___________|_______|or_e100__|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VL420 | | | | | | | | | | |(P5754A, | | | | | | | | | | |P5755A, | | | | | | | | | | |P5756A, | | | | | | | | | | |P5757A, | | | | | | | | | | |P5761A, | | | | | | | | | | |P5762A, | | | | | | | | | | |P5764A, | | | |Yes | | | | | | |P5765A, |ATI Rage |Yes XFree |Intel |driver | | |Analog |Yes driver | | |P5767A, |128 AGP |4.1.0Rem. |PRO 10/|eepro100 |None |N/A |Device |AD1885 |No | |P5769A, |8MB |(ati) |100 BT |or e100 | | |1885 | | | |P5770A, | | | | | | | | | | |P5956A, | | | | | | | | | | |P5962A, | | | | | | | | | | |P5967A, | | | | | | | | | | |P5978A, | | | | | | | | | | |P5985A, | | | | | | | | | | |P5988A, | | | | | | | | | | |P5991A)_______|__________|___________|_______|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VL420 | | | | | | | | | | |(P5760A, | | | |Yes | | | | | | |P5763A, |nVidia |Yes XFree |Intel |driver | | |Analog |Yes driver | | |P5766A, |GeForce 2 |4.1.0Rem. |PRO 10/|eepro100 |None |N/A |Device |AD1885 |No | |P5768A, |GTS AGP |(nv) |100 BT |or e100 | | |1885 | | | |P5986A, | | | | | | | | | | |P5990A)_______|__________|___________|_______|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VL600 | | | | | | | | | | |(D9733A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8643A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8653A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8657A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8663A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8667A, |Matrox |Yes XFree | | | | |Cirrus |Yes driver | | |D9737A, |Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None |N/A |Logic CS|AlsaRem. |No | |D8647A, |G250 AGP |(mga) | | | | |4614 | | | |D8677A, | | | | | | | | | | |P2780A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3285A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3288A) | | | | | | | | | | |Chipset | | | | | | | | | | |i820Rem.______|__________|___________|_______|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VL600 | | | | | | | | | | |(D7543N, | | | | | | | | | | |D8644N, | | | | | | | | | | |D8648N, | | | | | | | | | | |D8654N, | | | | | | | | | | |D8658N, | | | | | | | | | | |D8664N, | | | | | | | | | | |D8668N, |Matrox |Yes XFree |3Com |Yes | | |Cirrus | | | |D8678A, |Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |905C-TX|driver |None |N/A |Logic CS|Yes driver |No | |D9734N, |G250 AGP |(mga) |10/100 |3c59xRem.| | |4614 |AlsaRem. | | |D9738N, | | |BT | | | | | | | |P2786A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3286N, | | | | | | | | | | |P3289N, | | | | | | | | | | |P3604N, | | | | | | | | | | |P3705N) | | | | | | | | | | |Chipset | | | | | | | | | | |i820Rem.______|__________|___________|_______|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VL600 | | | | | | | | | | |(D8635A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8645A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8649N, | | | | | | | | | | |D8655A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8659N, | | | | | | | | | | |D8665A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8669N, | | | | | | | | | | |D8679N, | | | | | | | | | | |D9735A, | | |3Com | | | | | | | |D9739N, |Matrox |Yes XFree |905C-TX|Yes | | |Cirrus |Yes driver | | |P2787A, |Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |10/100 |driver |None |N/A |Logic CS|AlsaRem. |Yes | |P3287A, |G400D AGP |(mga) |BT |3c59xRem.| | |4614 | | | |P3290N, | | | | | | | | | | |P3344N, | | | | | | | | | | |P3345N, | | | | | | | | | | |P3605N, | | | | | | | | | | |P3606N, | | | | | | | | | | |P3607N, | | | | | | | | | | |P3608N, | | | | | | | | | | |P3610N) | | | | | | | | | | |Chipset | | | | | | | | | | |i820Rem.______|__________|___________|_______|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VL600 |Matrox |Yes XFree |3Com |Yes | | |Cirrus | | | |(P3609N) |Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |905C-TX|driver |None |N/A |Logic CS|Yes driver |No | |Chipset |G450D |(mga) |10/100 |3c59xRem.| | |4614 |AlsaRem. | | |i820Rem.______|AGPRem.___|___________|BT_____|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VL600 |Matrox |Yes XFree | | | | |Cirrus | | | |(D8656N) |Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |??? |??? |Logic CS|Yes driver |No | |Chipset |G250 AGP |(mga) | | | | |4614 |AlsaRem. | | |i820Rem.______|__________|___________|_______|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VL800 | | | | | | | | | | |(P2059A, | | | | | | | | | | |P2074A, | | | | | | | | | | |P2076A, | | | | | | | | | | |P2077A, | | | | | | | | | | |P2078A, | | | | | | | | | | |P2080A, |Matrox | |3Com | | | | | | | |P2693A, |Millenium |Yes XFree |905C-TX|Yes | | |Cirrus |Yes driver | | |P3631A, |G450D |4.1.0Rem. |10/100 |driver |None |N/A |Logic CS|cs4299 |No | |P3633A, |AGPRem. |(mga) |BT |3c59xRem.| | |4299 | | | |P3635A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3637A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3638A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3643A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3644A) P4 | | | | | | | | | | |Chipset | | | | | | | | | | |i850Rem.______|__________|___________|_______|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VL800 | | | | | | | | | | |(P2057A, | | | | | | | | | | |P2060A, | | | | | | | | | | |P2075A, | | | | | | | | | | |P2079A, | | | | | | | | | | |P2081A, |nVidia |Yes XFree |3Com |Yes | | |Cirrus | | | |P2694A, |GeForce 2 |4.1.0Rem. |905C-TX|driver |None |N/A |Logic CS|Yes driver |RedHat | |P2695A, |GTS AGP |(nv) |10/100 |3c59xRem.| | |4299 |cs4299 |7.1 | |P3632A, | | |BT | | | | | | | |P3634A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3636A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3642A) P4 | | | | | | | | | | |Chipset | | | | | | | | | | |i850Rem.______|__________|___________|_______|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VL800 | | | | | | | | | | |(P2696A, |nVidia |Yes XFree |3Com |Yes | | |Sound | | | |P2697A, |GeForce 2 |4.1.0Rem. |905C-TX|driver |None |N/A |Blaster |Yes driver |No | |P3642A) P4 |GTS AGP |(nv) |10/100 |3c59xRem.| | |Live! |emu10k1Rem.| | |Chipset | | |BT | | | | | | | |i850Rem.______|__________|___________|_______|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VL800 | | | | | | | | | | |(P2058A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3223A, | | |3Com | | | | | | | |P3224A, |ATI Rage |Yes XFree |905C-TX|Yes | | |Cirrus |Yes driver | | |P3225A, |128 AGP |4.1.0Rem. |10/100 |driver |None |N/A |Logic CS|cs4299 |No | |P3226A, |8MB |(ati) |BT |3c59xRem.| | |4299 | | | |P3640A) P4 | | | | | | | | | | |Chipset | | | | | | | | | | |i850Rem.______|__________|___________|_______|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra VL800 |ATI Rage |Yes XFree |3Com |Yes | | |Cirrus | |Preload | |(P3639A) P4 |128 AGP |4.1.0Rem. |905C-TX|driver |None |N/A |Logic CS|Yes driver |Mandrake| |Chipset |8MB |(ati) |10/100 |3c59xRem.| | |4299 |cs4299 |8.0 | |i850Rem.______|__________|___________|BT_____|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| |Vectra XA | | | | | | | | | | |(D3986A, | | | | | | | | | | |D3989A, | | | | | | | | | | |D3990A, | | | | | | | | | | |D3991A, | | |AMD | | | | | | | |D3993A, |Matrox |Yes XFree |79C971 |Yes | | | | | | |D4770N, |Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |KC 10/ |driver |None |N/A |??? |??? |No | |D4771N, |II PCI |(mga) |100 BT |pcnet32 | | | | | | |D4773N, | | | | | | | | | | |D4774N, | | | | | | | | | | |D3994N, | | | | | | | | | | |D3995N, | | | | | | | | | | |D4776N)_______|__________|___________|_______|_________|_______|___________|________|___________|________| | |Matrox |Yes XFree |AMD |Yes |Adaptec| | | | | |Vectra XA |Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |79C971 |driver |AIC |Yes driver |??? |??? |Yes | |(D4777A) |II PCI |(mga) |KC 10/ |pcnet32 |7880 UW|aic7xxxRem.| | | | |______________|__________|___________|100_BT_|_________|PCI____|___________|________|___________|________| Table 3-3. e-PC and Linux _________________________________________________________________________________ |Machine |Graphic|Linux |Network|Linux |SCSI|Linux |Sound|Linux |Tested | |________|Card___|support__|Card___|support__|Card|support|Card_|support_|________| |e-Vectra| | | | | | | | | | |(D9896T,| | | | | | | | | | |D9897T, | | | | | | | | | | |D9898T, |Intel |Yes XFree|3Com |Yes | | |Intel|Yes | | |D9899T, |i810 |4.1.0Rem.|905C-TX|driver |None|N/A |82810|driver |Yes | |P2024T, |AGPRem.|(i810) |10/100 |3c59xRem.| | |Audio|AlsaRem.| | |P2025T, | | |BT | | | | | | | |P2027T, | | | | | | | | | | |P2706T, | | | | | | | | | | |P2707T)_|_______|_________|_______|_________|____|_______|_____|________|________| |e-PC | | | | | | | | | | |(P2321A,| | | | | | | | | | |P2760A, | | | | | | | | | | |P2761A, | | | | | | | | | | |P2763A, | | | | | | | | | | |P2765A, | | | | | | | | | | |P2791A, | | | | | | | | | | |P2792A, | | | | | | | | | | |P2793A, | | | | | | | | | | |P2794A, | | | | | | | | | | |P2795A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3355A, | | |3Com | | | | | | | |P3362A, |Intel |Yes XFree|905C-TX|Yes | | |Intel|Yes |RedHat | |P4229A, |i810 |4.1.0Rem.|10/100 |driver |None|N/A |82810|driver |7.0 | |P4230A, |AGPRem.|(i810) |BT |3c59xRem.| | |Audio|AlsaRem.| | |P4256A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4265A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4266A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4269A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4271A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4272A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4273A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4274A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4278A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4941A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4946A, | | | | | | | | | | |P4949A)_|_______|_________|_______|_________|____|_______|_____|________|________| |e-PC | | | | | | | | | | |(P4315A,|Intel |Yes XFree|Intel |Yes | | |Intel|Yes |RedHat | |P4327A, |i815 |4.1.0Rem.|PRO 10/|driver |None|N/A |82810|driver |7.1, | |P4328A, |AGPRem.|(i810) |100 BT |eepro100 | | |Audio|AlsaRem.|Mandrake| |P4329A, | | | |or e100 | | | | |8.0, 8.1| |P5802A)_|_______|_________|_______|_________|____|_______|_____|________|________| Table 3-4. Kayak and Linux _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ |Machine |Graphic |Linux |Network Card|Linux |SCSI |Linux support|Sound |Linux |Tested| |________|Card_______|support____|____________|support|Card____|_____________|Card____|support___|______| |Kayak XA|Cirrus |Yes XFree | | | | | | | | |(D4792A,|Logic GD |4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None |N/A |??? |??? |No | |D4795N) |5465 |(cirrus) | | | | | | | | |________|AGPRem.____|___________|____________|_______|________|_____________|________|__________|______| |Kayak XA| | | | | | | | | | |(D4807N,| | | | | | | | | | |D4796N, |Cirrus |Yes XFree | |Yes | | | | | | |D6491N, |Logic GD |4.1.0Rem. |AMD 79C971 |driver |None |N/A |??? |??? |Yes | |D6492N, |5465 |(cirrus) |KC 10/100 BT|pcnet32| | | | | | |D4806N, |AGPRem. | | | | | | | | | |D4808N, | | | | | | | | | | |D6493N)_|___________|___________|____________|_______|________|_____________|________|__________|______| |Kayak XA| | | | |Symbios | | | | | |(D4798N,|Cirrus |Yes XFree |AMD 79C974 |Yes |Logic | |Analog | | | |D6490N, |Logic GD |4.1.0Rem. |KC 10/100 BT|driver |8751SP |Yes driver |Device |Yes driver|Yes | |D4799N, |5465 |(cirrus) |+ SCSI |pcnet32|with |ncr53c8xxRem.|1816 |AD1816Rem.| | |D4803N, |AGPRem. | | | |network | | | | | |D6494N)_|___________|___________|____________|_______|card____|_____________|________|__________|______| |Kayak XA|Matrox |Yes XFree | | | | | | | | |(D4796S,|Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None |N/A |??? |??? |No | |D6493S)_|II_AGP_____|(mga)______|____________|_______|________|_____________|________|__________|______| | | | | | |Symbios | | | | | | |Matrox |Yes XFree |AMD 79C974 |Yes |Logic | | | | | |Kayak XA|Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |KC 10/100 BT|driver |8751SP |Yes driver |??? |??? |No | |(D4803S)|II AGP |(mga) |+ SCSI |pcnet32|with |ncr53c8xxRem.| | | | | | | | | |network | | | | | |________|___________|___________|____________|_______|card____|_____________|________|__________|______| |Kayak XA| | | | | | | | | | |(D6720N,| | | | | | | | | | |D6721N, | | | | | | | | | | |D6723N, | | | | | | | | | | |D6726N, | | | | | | | | | | |D6724N, |Matrox |Yes XFree | | | | |AZTEC |Yes driver| | |D6730N, |Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None |N/A |2320Rem.|AlsaRem. |No | |D6731N, |G200 AGP |(mga) | | | | | | | | |D6735N, | | | | | | | | | | |D6736N, | | | | | | | | | | |D6738N, | | | | | | | | | | |D6739N, | | | | | | | | | | |D7994N)_|___________|___________|____________|_______|________|_____________|________|__________|______| |Kayak XA|Elsa Gloria|Yes XFree | | | | | | | | |(D6722N,|Synergy + |4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None |N/A |??? |??? |Yes | |D6729N, |AGPRem. |(glint) | | | | | | | | |D6734N)_|___________|___________|____________|_______|________|_____________|________|__________|______| | | | | | |Symbios | | | | | |Kayak XA| | |AMD 79C971 | |Logic | | | | | |(D6725N,|Matrox |Yes XFree |KC 10/100 BT|Yes |53c875 |Yes driver | | | | |D6732N, |Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |+ SCSI |driver |with |ncr53c8xxRem.|??? |??? |Yes | |D6737N, |G200 AGP |(mga) |(D6692A)Rem.|pcnet32|network | | | | | |D7993N) | | | | |card | | | | | |________|___________|___________|____________|_______|(D6692A)|_____________|________|__________|______| | | | | | |Symbios | | | | | | | | |AMD 79C971 | |Logic | | | | | |Kayak XA|Elsa Gloria|Yes XFree |KC 10/100 BT|Yes |53c875 |Yes driver | | | | |(D6727N)|Synergy + |4.1.0Rem. |+ SCSI |driver |with |ncr53c8xxRem.|??? |??? |No | | |AGPRem. |(glint) |(D6692A)Rem.|pcnet32|network | | | | | | | | | | |card | | | | | |________|___________|___________|____________|_______|(D6692A)|_____________|________|__________|______| | | |Yes XFree | | | | | | | | | | |4.1.0Rem. | | | | | | | | |Kayak XA|Accel |in Frame | | | | | | | | |(D6728N,|Galaxy AGP |Buffer mode|None |N/A |None |N/A |??? |??? |No | |D6733N) | |(FBDEV)Rem.| | | | | | | | | | |Not | | | | | | | | |________|___________|interesting|____________|_______|________|_____________|________|__________|______| |Kayak | | | | | | | | | | |XA-s | | | | | | | | | | |(D5751N,| | | | | | | | | | |D5752N, |Matrox | | | | | | | | | |D5753N, |Productiva |Yes XFree | | | | | | | | |D5755N, |G100 |4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None |N/A |??? |??? |No | |D5754N, |AGPRem. |(mga) | | | | | | | | |D5756N, | | | | | | | | | | |D5759N) | | | | | | | | | | |Chipset | | | | | | | | | | |BXRem.__|___________|___________|____________|_______|________|_____________|________|__________|______| |Kayak | | | | |Symbios | | | | | |XA-s |Matrox | |AMD 79C971 | |Logic | | | | | |(D5757N,|Productiva |Yes XFree |KC 10/100 BT|Yes |53c875 |Yes driver | | | | |D5758N) |G100 |4.1.0Rem. |+ SCSI |driver |with |ncr53c8xxRem.|??? |??? |Yes | |Chipset |AGPRem. |(mga) |(D6692A)Rem.|pcnet32|network | | | | | |BXRem. | | | | |card | | | | | |________|___________|___________|____________|_______|(D6692A)|_____________|________|__________|______| |Kayak | | | | | | | | | | |XA-s | | | | | | | | | | |(D5765N,| | | | | | | | | | |D5763N, | | | | | | | | | | |D5766N, |Matrox |Yes XFree | | | | | | | | |D5769N, |Productiva |4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None |N/A |??? |??? |Yes | |D7982N, |G200 AGP |(mga) | | | | | | | | |D7986N, | | | | | | | | | | |D7991N, | | | | | | | | | | |D7987N) | | | | | | | | | | |Chipset | | | | | | | | | | |BXRem.__|___________|___________|____________|_______|________|_____________|________|__________|______| |Kayak | | | | |Symbios | | | | | |XA-s | | |AMD 79C971 | |Logic | | | | | |(D5768N,|Matrox |Yes XFree |KC 10/100 BT|Yes |53c875 |Yes driver | | | | |D5767N) |Productiva |4.1.0Rem. |+ SCSI |driver |with |ncr53c8xxRem.|??? |??? |No | |Chipset |G200 AGP |(mga) |(D6692A)Rem.|pcnet32|network | | | | | |BXRem. | | | | |card | | | | | |________|___________|___________|____________|_______|(D6692A)|_____________|________|__________|______| |Kayak | | | | |Symbios | | | | | |XA-s | | |AMD 79C971 | |Logic | | | | | |(D5762N,|Elsa Gloria|Yes XFree |KC 10/100 BT|Yes |53c875 |Yes driver | | | | |D7984N, |Synergy + |4.1.0Rem. |+ SCSI |driver |with |ncr53c8xxRem.|??? |??? |Yes | |D7988N) |AGPRem. |(glint) |(D6692A)Rem.|pcnet32|network | | | | | |Chipset | | | | |card | | | | | |BXRem.__|___________|___________|____________|_______|(D6692A)|_____________|________|__________|______| |Kayak | |Yes XFree | | |Symbios | | | | | |XA-s | |4.1.0Rem. |AMD 79C971 | |Logic | | | | | |(D5764N,|Accel |in Frame |KC 10/100 BT|Yes |53c875 |Yes driver | | | | |D7983N, |Galaxy AGP |Buffer mode|+ SCSI |driver |with |ncr53c8xxRem.|??? |??? |No | |D7989N) | |(FBDEV)Rem.|(D6692A)Rem.|pcnet32|network | | | | | |Chipset | |Not | | |card | | | | | |BXRem.__|___________|interesting|____________|_______|(D6692A)|_____________|________|__________|______| | | | | | |Symbios | | | | | |Kayak |Matrox | |AMD 79C971 | |Logic | | | | | |XA-s |Productiva |Yes XFree |KC 10/100 BT|Yes |53c875 |Yes driver | | | | |(D7990N)|G100 |4.1.0Rem. |+ SCSI |driver |with |ncr53c8xxRem.|??? |??? |No | |Chipset |AGPRem. |(mga) |(D6692A)Rem.|pcnet32|network | | | | | |BXRem. | | | | |card | | | | | |________|___________|___________|____________|_______|(D6692A)|_____________|________|__________|______| | | | | | |Symbios | | | | | |Kayak | | |AMD 79C971 | |Logic | | | | | |XA-s |Elsa Gloria|Yes XFree |KC 10/100 BT|Yes |53c875 |Yes driver |Analog |Yes driver| | |(D7992N)|Synergy II |4.1.0Rem. |+ SCSI |driver |with |ncr53c8xxRem.|Device |AD1816Rem.|Yes | |Chipset |AGP |(glint) |(D6692A)Rem.|pcnet32|network | |1816 | | | |BXRem. | | | | |card | | | | | |________|___________|___________|____________|_______|(D6692A)|_____________|________|__________|______| |Kayak | | | | | | | | | | |XM600 | | | | | | | | | | |(D9531N,| | | | | | | | | | |D9533N, | | | | | | | | | | |D9535N, | | | | | | | | | | |D9541N, | | | | | | | | | | |D9549N, | | | | | | | | | | |D9552N, | | | | | | | | | | |D9553N, | | | | | | | | | | |D9555N, |Matrox |Yes XFree |SMC 1211 TX |Yes | | |Cirrus |Yes driver| | |D9556N, |Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |EZ Card 10/ |driver |None |N/A |Logic CS|AlsaRem. |No | |D9557N, |G250 AGP |(mga) |100 BT |rtl8139| | |4614 | | | |D9559N, | | | | | | | | | | |P1642N, | | | | | | | | | | |P1645N, | | | | | | | | | | |P1653N, | | | | | | | | | | |P1655N, | | | | | | | | | | |P1658N, | | | | | | | | | | |P2055N, | | | | | | | | | | |P2191N, | | | | | | | | | | |P2202N)_|___________|___________|____________|_______|________|_____________|________|__________|______| |Kayak | | | | |Symbios | | | | | |XM600 |Matrox |Yes XFree |SMC 1211 TX |Yes |Logic |Yes driver |Cirrus |Yes driver| | |(P1650N,|Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |EZ Card 10/ |driver |53C895 |ncr53c8xxRem.|Logic CS|AlsaRem. |No | |P1652N, |G250 AGP |(mga) |100 BT |rtl8139|PCI | |4614 | | | |P1656N)_|___________|___________|____________|_______|________|_____________|________|__________|______| |Kayak | | | | | | | | | | |XM600 |Matrox |Yes XFree |SMC 1211 TX |Yes | | |Cirrus | | | |(D8350N,|Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |EZ Card 10/ |driver |None |N/A |Logic CS|Yes driver|No | |D9554N, |G250 AGP |(mga) |100 BT |rtl8139| | |4614 |AlsaRem. | | |D9558N) | | | | | | | | | | |Rem.____|___________|___________|____________|_______|________|_____________|________|__________|______| |Kayak |Matrox |Yes XFree | | | | |Cirrus | | | |XM600 |Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None |N/A |Logic CS|Yes driver|No | |(P2054N)|G400D AGP |(mga) | | | | |4614 |AlsaRem. | | |Rem.____|___________|___________|____________|_______|________|_____________|________|__________|______| |Kayak |Matrox |Yes XFree | | | | |Cirrus |Yes driver| | |XM600 |Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None |N/A |Logic CS|AlsaRem. |No | |(D9563N)|G400D_AGP__|(mga)______|____________|_______|________|_____________|4614____|__________|______| |Kayak | | | | | | | | | | |XM600 | | | | | | | | | | |(D9536N,| | | | | | | | | | |D9537N, | | | | | | | | | | |D9538N, | | | | | | | | | | |D9544N, | | | | | | | | | | |D9548N, |Matrox |Yes XFree |SMC 1211 TX |Yes | | |Cirrus | | | |P1646N, |Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |EZ Card 10/ |driver |None |N/A |Logic CS|Yes driver|No | |P1648N, |G400D AGP |(mga) |100 BT |rtl8139| | |4614 |AlsaRem. | | |P2192N, | | | | | | | | | | |P2193N, | | | | | | | | | | |P2203N, | | | | | | | | | | |P2204N, | | | | | | | | | | |P2204N, | | | | | | | | | | |P2192N, | | | | | | | | | | |P2193N)_|___________|___________|____________|_______|________|_____________|________|__________|______| |Kayak | | | | | | | | | | |XM600 | | | | | | | | | | |(D9539N,|Matrox |Yes XFree |SMC 1211 TX |Yes |Symbios | |Cirrus | | | |D9565N, |Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |EZ Card 10/ |driver |Logic |Yes driver |Logic CS|Yes driver|No | |P1651N, |G400D AGP |(mga) |100 BT |rtl8139|53C895 |ncr53c8xxRem.|4614 |AlsaRem. | | |P1657N, | | | | |PCI | | | | | |P2190N, | | | | | | | | | | |P2194N)_|___________|___________|____________|_______|________|_____________|________|__________|______| |Kayak |Elsa Gloria|Yes XFree |SMC 1211 TX |Yes | | |Cirrus | | | |XM600 |Synergy II |4.1.0Rem. |EZ Card 10/ |driver |None |N/A |Logic CS|Yes driver|Yes | |(D9550N,|AGP |(glint) |100 BT |rtl8139| | |4614 |AlsaRem. | | |D9567N)_|___________|___________|____________|_______|________|_____________|________|__________|______| |Kayak | | | | | | | | | | |XM600 | | | | | | | | | | |(D9534N,| | | | | | | | | | |D9540N, | | | | | | | | | | |D9543N, | | | | | | | | | | |D9546N, | | | | |Symbios | | | | | |D9564N, |Elsa Gloria|Yes XFree |SMC 1211 TX |Yes |Logic |Yes driver |Cirrus |Yes driver| | |P1644N, |Synergy II |4.1.0Rem. |EZ Card 10/ |driver |53C895 |ncr53c8xxRem.|Logic CS|AlsaRem. |Yes | |P1647N, |AGP |(glint) |100 BT |rtl8139|PCI | |4614 | | | |P1649N, | | | | | | | | | | |P2053N, | | | | | | | | | | |P2056N, | | | | | | | | | | |P2195N, | | | | | | | | | | |P2210N, | | | | | | | | | | |P2211N)_|___________|___________|____________|_______|________|_____________|________|__________|______| |Kayak | |Yes XFree | | |Symbios | | | | | |XM600 |3DLabs |4.1.0Rem. |SMC 1211 TX |Yes |Logic |Yes driver |Cirrus |Yes driver| | |(D9545N,|Oxygen GVX1|in Frame |EZ Card 10/ |driver |53C895 |ncr53c8xxRem.|Logic CS|AlsaRem. |Yes | |D8366N) |AGP |Buffer mode|100 BT |rtl8139|PCI | |4614 | | | |________|___________|(FBDEV)Rem.|____________|_______|________|_____________|________|__________|______| |Kayak XU| | | | | | | | | | |(D4691N,| | | | |Adaptec | | | | | |D4692N, | | | | |AIC 7860| | | | | |D4695N, |Matrox |Yes XFree |AMD 79C971 |Yes |PCI + |Yes driver | | | | |D4701N, |Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |KC 10/100 BT|driver |Adaptec |aic7xxxRem. |??? |??? |Yes | |D4693N, |II PCI |(mga) | |pcnet32|AIC 7880| | | | | |D4694N, | | | | |UW PCI | | | | | |D4702N, | | | | | | | | | | |D4705N)_|___________|___________|____________|_______|________|_____________|________|__________|______| |Kayak XU| | | | |Adaptec | | | | | |(D5680N,| | | | |AIC 7860| | | | | |D5682N, |Matrox |Yes XFree |AMD 79C971 |Yes |PCI + |Yes driver |Analog |Yes driver| | |D5683N, |Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |KC 10/100 BT|driver |Adaptec |aic7xxxRem. |Device |AD1816Rem.|Yes | |D5684N) |II PCI |(mga) | |pcnet32|AIC 7880| |1816 | | | |Chipset | | | | |UW PCI | | | | | |BXRem.__|___________|___________|____________|_______|________|_____________|________|__________|______| | | | | | |Symbios | | | | | |Kayak XU| | | | |Logic | | | | | |(D5702, | | | | |53c875 | | | | | |D5704, | | |AMD 79C972 | |with |Yes driver | | | | |D5686N, |Matrox |Yes XFree |10/100 BT + |Yes |network |ncr53c8xx and| | | | |D6336N, |Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |SCSI |driver |card |driver |??? |??? |Yes | |D6348N, |G200 AGP |(mga) |(D6692A)Rem.|pcnet32|(D6692A)|aic7xxx | | | | |D8431N, | | | | |+ | | | | | |D8920N) | | | | |Adaptec | | | | | | | | | | |AIC 7880| | | | | |________|___________|___________|____________|_______|PCI_____|_____________|________|__________|______| | | | | | |Symbios | | | | | | | | | | |Logic | | | | | |Kayak XU| | | | |53c875 | | | | | |(D5687N,| | |AMD 79C972 | |with |Yes driver | | | | |D6333N, |Elsa Gloria|Yes XFree |10/100 BT + |Yes |network |ncr53c8xx and| | | | |D6334N, |Synergy + |4.1.0Rem. |SCSI |driver |card |driver |??? |??? |No | |D8432N, |AGPRem. |(glint) |(D6692A)Rem.|pcnet32|(D6692A)|aic7xxx | | | | |D6345N, | | | | |+ | | | | | |D8923N) | | | | |Adaptec | | | | | | | | | | |AIC 7880| | | | | |________|___________|___________|____________|_______|PCI_____|_____________|________|__________|______| | | | | | |Symbios | | | | | | | | | | |Logic | | | | | | | |Yes XFree | | |53c875 | | | | | | | |4.1.0Rem. |AMD 79C972 | |with |Yes driver | | | | |Kayak XU|Accel |in Frame |10/100 BT + |Yes |network |ncr53c8xx and| | | | |(D6337N,|Galaxy AGP |Buffer mode|SCSI |driver |card |driver |??? |??? |No | |D6346N) | |(FBDEV)Rem.|(D6692A)Rem.|pcnet32|(D6692A)|aic7xxx | | | | | | |Not | | |+ | | | | | | | |interesting| | |Adaptec | | | | | | | | | | |AIC 7880| | | | | |________|___________|___________|____________|_______|PCI_____|_____________|________|__________|______| | | | | | |Symbios | | | | | | | | | | |Logic | | | | | | | | | | |53c875 | | | | | | |Matrox | |AMD 79C972 | |with |Yes driver | | | | |Kayak XU|Productiva |Yes XFree |10/100 BT + |Yes |network |ncr53c8xx and| | | | |(D6347N)|G100 |4.1.0Rem. |SCSI |driver |card |driver |??? |??? |No | | |AGPRem. |(mga) |(D6692A)Rem.|pcnet32|(D6692A)|aic7xxx | | | | | | | | | |+ | | | | | | | | | | |Adaptec | | | | | | | | | | |AIC 7880| | | | | |________|___________|___________|____________|_______|PCI_____|_____________|________|__________|______| | | | | | |Symbios | | | | | | | | | | |Logic | | | | | | | | | | |53c875 | | | | | | | | |AMD 79C972 | |with |Yes driver | | | | |Kayak XU|Matrox |Yes XFree |10/100 BT + |Yes |network |ncr53c8xx and| | | | |(D8924N)|Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |SCSI |driver |card |driver |??? |??? |No | | |G400D AGP |(mga) |(D6692A)Rem.|pcnet32|(D6692A)|aic7xxx | | | | | | | | | |+ | | | | | | | | | | |Adaptec | | | | | | | | | | |AIC 7880| | | | | |________|___________|___________|____________|_______|PCI_____|_____________|________|__________|______| |Kayak |Matrox |Yes XFree | | | | | | | | |XU700 |Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |??? |??? |None |N/A |??? |??? |No | |(A7185C)|G450D |(mga) | | | | | | | | |________|AGPRem.____|___________|____________|_______|________|_____________|________|__________|______| |Kayak |Matrox |Yes XFree | | | | | | | | |XU700 |Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |??? |??? |??? |??? |??? |??? |No | |(A7186C)|G450D |(mga) | | | | | | | | |________|AGPRem.____|___________|____________|_______|________|_____________|________|__________|______| |Kayak |Matrox |Yes XFree |SMC 1211 TX |Yes | | |Cirrus | | | |XU800 |Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |EZ Card 10/ |driver |None |N/A |Logic CS|Yes driver|No | |(D8019N)|G250 AGP |(mga) |100 BT |rtl8139| | |4614 |AlsaRem. | | |Rem.____|___________|___________|____________|_______|________|_____________|________|__________|______| |Kayak | | | | | | | | | | |XU800 |Matrox |Yes XFree |SMC 1211 TX |Yes | | |Cirrus | | | |(D8021N,|Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |EZ Card 10/ |driver |None |N/A |Logic CS|Yes driver|No | |P1586N, |G400D AGP |(mga) |100 BT |rtl8139| | |4614 |AlsaRem. | | |P1661N) | | | | | | | | | | |Rem.____|___________|___________|____________|_______|________|_____________|________|__________|______| |Kayak | | | | | | | | | | |XU800 |Matrox |Yes XFree |SMC 1211 TX |Yes |Symbios | |Cirrus | | | |(D8000N,|Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |EZ Card 10/ |driver |Logic |Yes driver |Logic CS|Yes driver|No | |D8001N) |G250 AGP |(mga) |100 BT |rtl8139|53C895 |ncr53c8xxRem.|4614 |AlsaRem. | | |Rem. | | | | |PCI | | | | | |Rem.____|___________|___________|____________|_______|________|_____________|________|__________|______| |Kayak | | | | | | | | | | |XU800 | | | | | | | | | | |(D8002N,| | | | | | | | | | |D8010N, | | | | |Symbios | | | | | |D8016N, |Matrox |Yes XFree |SMC 1211 TX |Yes |Logic |Yes driver |Cirrus |Yes driver| | |P1585N, |Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |EZ Card 10/ |driver |53C895 |ncr53c8xxRem.|Logic CS|AlsaRem. |No | |P1589N, |G250 AGP |(mga) |100 BT |rtl8139|PCI | |4614 | | | |P1663N, | | | | | | | | | | |P1664N, | | | | | | | | | | |P1668N) | | | | | | | | | | |Rem.____|___________|___________|____________|_______|________|_____________|________|__________|______| |Kayak | | | | | | | | | | |XU800 | | | | | | | | | | |(D8003N,| | | | |Symbios | | | | | |D8006N, |Matrox |Yes XFree |SMC 1211 TX |Yes |Logic |Yes driver |Cirrus |Yes driver| | |D8012N, |Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |EZ Card 10/ |driver |53C895 |ncr53c8xxRem.|Logic CS|AlsaRem. |Yes | |P1587N, |G400D AGP |(mga) |100 BT |rtl8139|PCI | |4614 | | | |P1665N, | | | | | | | | | | |P1669N) | | | | | | | | | | |Rem.____|___________|___________|____________|_______|________|_____________|________|__________|______| |Kayak | | | | |Symbios | | | | | |XU800 |Matrox |Yes XFree |SMC 1211 TX |Yes |Logic |Yes driver |Cirrus |Yes driver| | |(P1667N)|Millenium |4.1.0Rem. |EZ Card 10/ |driver |53C895 |ncr53c8xxRem.|Logic CS|AlsaRem. |No | |Rem. |G400D AGP |(mga) |100 BT |rtl8139|PCI | |4614 | | | |Rem.____|___________|___________|____________|_______|________|_____________|________|__________|______| |Kayak | | | | | | | | | | |XU800 | | | | | | | | | | |(D8007N,| | | | | | | | | | |D8013N, | | | | | | | | | | |D8020N, |Elsa Gloria|Yes XFree |SMC 1211 TX |Yes |Symbios | |Cirrus | | | |D8022N, |Synergy II |4.1.0Rem. |EZ Card 10/ |driver |Logic |Yes driver |Logic CS|Yes driver|No | |P1588N, |AGP |(glint) |100 BT |rtl8139|53C895 |ncr53c8xxRem.|4614 |AlsaRem. | | |P1590N, | | | | |PCI | | | | | |P1662N, | | | | | | | | | | |P3220N, | | | | | | | | | | |P3221N) | | | | | | | | | | |Rem.____|___________|___________|____________|_______|________|_____________|________|__________|______| |Kayak | |Yes XFree | | |Symbios | | | | | |XU800 |3DLabs |4.1.0Rem. |SMC 1211 TX |Yes |Logic |Yes driver |Cirrus |Yes driver| | |(D8009N,|Oxygen GVX1|in Frame |EZ Card 10/ |driver |53C895 |ncr53c8xxRem.|Logic CS|AlsaRem. |Yes | |D8015N) |AGP |Buffer mode|100 BT |rtl8139|PCI | |4614 | | | |Rem.____|___________|(FBDEV)Rem.|____________|_______|________|_____________|________|__________|______| | | | | | |Adaptec | | | | | | | |Yes XFree | |Yes |AIC 7860| | | | | |Kayak XW|Elsa Gloria|4.1.0Rem. |AMD 79C971 |driver |PCI + |Yes driver |??? |??? |No | |(D6475N)|SynergyRem.|(glint) |KC 10/100 BT|pcnet32|Adaptec |aic7xxxRem. | | | | | | | | | |AIC 7880| | | | | |________|___________|___________|____________|_______|UW_PCI__|_____________|________|__________|______| | | |Yes XFree | | |Adaptec | | | | | |Kayak XW| |4.1.0Rem. | | |AIC 7860| | | | | |(D5505N,|Accel |in Frame |AMD 79C971 |Yes |PCI + |Yes driver | | | | |D5507N, |Eclipse PCI|Buffer mode|KC 10/100 BT|driver |Adaptec |aic7xxxRem. |??? |??? |No | |D5509N) | |(FBDEV)Rem.| |pcnet32|AIC 7880| | | | | | | |Not | | |UW PCI | | | | | |________|___________|interesting|____________|_______|________|_____________|________|__________|______| | | | | | |Adaptec | | | | | |Kayak XW| | | |Yes |AIC 7860| | | | | |(D5510N,|HP Fx-4 AGP|Yes HP X |AMD 79C971 |driver |PCI + |Yes driver |??? |??? |No | |D5514N, | |ServerRem. |KC 10/100 BT|pcnet32|Adaptec |aic7xxxRem. | | | | |D6485N) | | | | |AIC 7880| | | | | |________|___________|___________|____________|_______|UW_PCI__|_____________|________|__________|______| |Kayak XW| |Yes XFree | | | | | | | | |(D6480N,| |4.1.0Rem. | | | | | | | | |D6481N, |Accel |in Frame | | | | | | | | |D6482N) |Eclipse PCI|Buffer mode|??? |??? |??? |??? |??? |??? |No | |Chipset | |(FBDEV)Rem.| | | | | | | | |BXRem. | |Not | | | | | | | | |________|___________|interesting|____________|_______|________|_____________|________|__________|______| |Kayak XW|HP Fx-6 AGP|Yes HP X |??? |??? |??? |??? |??? |??? |No | |(D6797N)|___________|ServerRem._|____________|_______|________|_____________|________|__________|______| |Kayak XW| | | | | | | | | | |(D6486N,| | | | | | | | | | |D6487N, |HP Fx-4 AGP|Yes HP X |??? |??? |??? |??? |??? |??? |No | |D6488N) | |ServerRem. | | | | | | | | |Chipset | | | | | | | | | | |BXRem.__|___________|___________|____________|_______|________|_____________|________|__________|______| The health monitoring system HP Kayak Maxilife, available on the whole Kayak range, is supported by Linux with the tool Lm_sensors ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.2.1.2. Desktop computer accessories The following table provides all information on the support for this hardware by Linux. Table 3-5. Desktop computer accessories ____________________________________________________________________________ |Reference______|Card_type____|Chipset____________|Linux_support______|Tested| |D1553A |Extension |ISA Slots Extension|Yes |Yes | |_______________|_____________|kit________________|___________________|______| |D5480A |FastRaid Card|Adaptec ARO |No |No | |_______________|_____________|Raidport___________|___________________|______| |D6690A |FastRaid Card|Adaptec ARO |No |No | |_______________|_____________|Raidport___________|___________________|______| |D6951A |SCSI Card |Adaptec AIC 7880 UW|Yes driver |Yes | |_______________|_____________|PCI________________|aic7xxxRem.________|______| |D9528A |SCSI Card |Symbios Logic 8952U|??? |No | |_______________|_____________|Ultra2_Wide_PCI____|___________________|______| |D9529A |SCSI Card |Symbios Logic |Yes driver |Yes | |_______________|_____________|53C895_PCI_________|ncr53c8xxRem.______|______| |D9663A |SCSI Card |Symbios Logic |Yes driver |Yes | |_______________|_____________|53C895_PCI_________|ncr53c8xxRem.______|______| |D9561A_________|SCSI_Card____|???________________|???________________|No____| |P2280A |SCSI Card |Adaptec AIC 29160 |Yes driver |No | |_______________|_____________|PCI________________|aic7xxxRem.________|______| |D6936A |Network Card |AMD 79C972 AKC 10/ |Yes driver pcnet32 |Yes | |_______________|_____________|100_BT_____________|___________________|______| |D7504A |Network Card |3Com 905B-TX 10/100|Yes driver |Yes | |_______________|_____________|BTRem._____________|3c59xRem.__________|______| |D7506A |Network Card |Intel PRO 10/100 BT|Yes driver eepro100|No | |_______________|_____________|___________________|or_e100____________|______| |D7508A_________|Network_Card_|???________________|???________________|No____| |D7522A |Network Card |3Com 905C-TX 10/100|Yes driver |Yes | |_______________|_____________|BT_________________|3c59xRem.__________|______| |D7531A |Network Card |Carte HP chipset |Yes driver RealTek |Yes | |_______________|_____________|RealTek____________|___________________|______| |D6657A_________|Sound_Card___|???________________|???________________|No____| |D5183A_________|Sound_Card___|???________________|???________________|No____| |P1552A |Video Card |Matrox Millenium |Yes XFree 4.1.0Rem.|Yes | |_______________|_____________|G250_AGP___________|(mga)______________|______| |D9521A |Video Card |Matrox Millenium |Yes XFree 4.1.0Rem.|Yes | |_______________|_____________|G400D_AGP__________|(mga)______________|______| |D9509A, D9522A,|Video Card |Elsa Gloria Synergy|Yes XFree 4.1.0Rem.|Yes | |D9522B_________|_____________|II_AGP_____________|(glint)____________|______| | | |3DLabs Oxygen GVX1 |Yes XFree 4.1.0Rem.| | |D9523A |Video Card |AGP |in Frame Buffer |Yes | |_______________|_____________|___________________|mode_(FBDEV)Rem.___|______| |P1971A, P2289A |Video Card |nVidia GeForce 2 |Yes XFree 4.1.0Rem.|No | |(MX)___________|_____________|GTS_AGP____________|(nv)_______________|______| CD-ROM, DVD and ZIP drives are supported by Linux kernel. Read the various HOWTO for their use, following the interface type. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.2.1.3. The workstation range (Visualize, HP workstation) Visualize systems come in two flavors: the p and x class systems are preinstalled, supported, and configured with Windows; the pl and xl class systems are preinstalled, supported, and configured with Linux. There is no hardware difference between the base systems, but the Linux image that is preinstalled on the pl and xl is customized so that all drivers for the systems are preconfigured -- there's no need to specify or tune the box and drivers. Table 3-6. Visualize and Linux __________________________________________________________________________________________________ |Machine |Graphic|Linux |Network Card|Linux |SCSI |Linux support|Sound |Linux |Tested| |_________|Card___|support___|____________|support_|Card____|_____________|Card__|support___|______| |Visualize| | | | |Symbios | | | | | |P |Elsa | |AMD 79C971 | |Logic | | | | | |(A1296A, |Gloria |Yes XFree |KC 10/100 BT|Yes |53c875 |Yes driver |Analog|Yes driver|RedHat| |A5015A) |Synergy|4.1.0Rem. |+ SCSI |driver |with |ncr53c8xxRem.|Device|AD1816Rem.|6.0, | |Chipset |+ |(glint) |(D6692A)Rem.|pcnet32 |network | |1816 | |6.1 | |BXRem. |AGPRem.| | | |card | | | | | |_________|_______|__________|____________|________|(D6692A)|_____________|______|__________|______| |Visualize| | | | |Symbios | | | | | |P |Elsa | |AMD 79C971 | |Logic | | | | | |(A1296A, |Gloria |Yes XFree |KC 10/100 BT|Yes |53c875 |Yes driver |Analog|Yes driver|RedHat| |A5015A) |Synergy|4.1.0Rem. |+ SCSI |driver |with |ncr53c8xxRem.|Device|AD1816Rem.|6.0, | |Chipset |II AGP |(glint) |(D6692A)Rem.|pcnet32 |network | |1816 | |6.1 | |BXRem. | | | | |card | | | | | |_________|_______|__________|____________|________|(D6692A)|_____________|______|__________|______| |Visualize|Elsa |Yes XFree |Intel i82557|Yes |Adaptec | |Cirrus| | | |P |Gloria |4.1.0Rem. |/ i82558 10/|driver |AIC 7892|Yes driver |Logic |Yes driver|RedHat| |(A6034A, |Synergy|(glint) |100 BT |eepro100|PCI |aic7xxxRem. |CS |AlsaRem. |6.2 | |A6038A)__|II_AGP_|__________|(D5013A/B)__|or_e100_|________|_____________|4280__|__________|______| |Visualize| | |Intel i82557|Yes |Adaptec | |Cirrus| | | |P |HP Fx- |Yes HP X |/ i82558 10/|driver |AIC 7892|Yes driver |Logic |Yes driver|RedHat| |(A6034A, |5 AGP |ServerRem.|100 BT |eepro100|PCI |aic7xxxRem. |CS |AlsaRem. |6.2 | |A6038A)__|_______|__________|(D5013A/B)__|or_e100_|________|_____________|4280__|__________|______| |Visualize| | |Intel i82557|Yes |Adaptec | |Cirrus| | | |P |HP Fx- |Yes HP X |/ i82558 10/|driver |AIC 7892|Yes driver |Logic |Yes driver|RedHat| |(A6034A, |10 AGP |ServerRem.|100 BT |eepro100|PCI |aic7xxxRem. |CS |AlsaRem. |6.2 | |A6038A)__|_______|__________|(D5013A/B)__|or_e100_|________|_____________|4280__|__________|______| |Visualize| | | | |Symbios | | | | | |X |Elsa | |AMD 79C971 | |Logic | | | | | |(A1297A, |Gloria |Yes XFree |KC 10/100 BT|Yes |53c875 |Yes driver |Analog|Yes driver|RedHat| |A5014A) |Synergy|4.1.0Rem. |+ SCSI |driver |with |ncr53c8xxRem.|Device|AD1816Rem.|6.0 | |Chipset |+ |(glint) |(D6692A)Rem.|pcnet32 |network | |1816 | | | |BXRem. |AGPRem.| | | |card | | | | | |_________|_______|__________|____________|________|(D6692A)|_____________|______|__________|______| |Visualize|Elsa |Yes XFree |Intel i82557|Yes |Adaptec | |Cirrus| | | |X |Gloria |4.1.0Rem. |/ i82558 10/|driver |AIC 7892|Yes driver |Logic |Yes driver|RedHat| |(A1280A, |Synergy|(glint) |100 BT |eepro100|PCI |aic7xxxRem. |CS |AlsaRem. |6.2 | |A6020A)__|II_AGP_|__________|(D5013A/B)__|or_e100_|________|_____________|4280__|__________|______| |Visualize| | |Intel i82557|Yes |Adaptec | |Cirrus| | | |X |HP Fx- |Yes HP X |/ i82558 10/|driver |AIC 7892|Yes driver |Logic |Yes driver|RedHat| |(A1280A, |5 AGP |ServerRem.|100 BT |eepro100|PCI |aic7xxxRem. |CS |AlsaRem. |6.2 | |A6020A)__|_______|__________|(D5013A/B)__|or_e100_|________|_____________|4280__|__________|______| |Visualize| | |Intel i82557|Yes |Adaptec | |Cirrus| | | |X |HP Fx- |Yes HP X |/ i82558 10/|driver |AIC 7892|Yes driver |Logic |Yes driver|RedHat| |(A1280A, |10 AGP |ServerRem.|100 BT |eepro100|PCI |aic7xxxRem. |CS |AlsaRem. |6.2 | |A6020A)__|_______|__________|(D5013A/B)__|or_e100_|________|_____________|4280__|__________|______| A page dedicated to these machines and their support under Linux is available at the following address : http://www.hp.com/workstations/products/linux/ index.html A page of questions and answers on these machines is also available at the following address : http://www.hp.com/visualize/programs/news/archive/qa1.html In particular, it's recommended to use a kernel 2.2.16 at least to support correctly the SCSI controller of these machines. A beta X server for the FX2+, FX4+ and FX6+ cards is available at the following address : http://www.hp.com/workstations/support/software/drivers/linux/video/ fxvideo/fx6/driver.html? An X server for the FX5 and FX10 cards is available at the following address : http://www.hp.com/workstations/support/software/drivers/linux/video/fxvideo/ fx10/index.html Table 3-7. HP workstation and Linux ____________________________________________________________________________________________ |Machine |Graphic |Linux |Network|Linux |SCSI |Linux support|Sound |Linux |Tested| |________|Card_____|support_____|Card___|support_|Card___|_____________|Card__|support|______| | |Matrox |Yes XFree |Intel |Yes | | |Cirrus|Yes | | |X1000 |Millenium|4.1.0Rem. |PRO 10/|driver |None |N/A |Logic |driver |No | |(A7778A)|G450D |(mga) |100 BT |eepro100| | |CS |cs4299 | | |________|AGPRem.__|____________|_______|or_e100_|_______|_____________|4299__|_______|______| |X1000 |nVidia |Yes XFree |Intel |Yes |Adaptec| |Cirrus|Yes | | |(A7779A,|Quadro2 |4.1.0Rem. |PRO 10/|driver |AIC |Yes driver |Logic |driver |No | |A7780A) |Pro AGP |(nv) |100 BT |eepro100|7892 |aic7xxxRem. |CS |cs4299 | | |________|_________|____________|_______|or_e100_|PCI____|_____________|4299__|_______|______| | |Matrox | |SMC | | | |Cirrus| | | |X2000 |Millenium|Yes XFree |1211 TX|Yes | | |Logic |Yes |RedHat| |(A7236A,|G450D |4.1.0Rem. |EZ Card|driver |None |N/A |CS |driver |7.1 | |A7236B) |AGPRem. |(mga) |10/100 |rtl8139 | | |4299 |cs4299 | | |________|_________|____________|BT_____|________|_______|_____________|______|_______|______| | | | |SMC | |Adaptec| |Cirrus| | | |X2000 |nVidia |Yes XFree |1211 TX|Yes |AIC |Yes driver |Logic |Yes |RedHat| |(A7237A)|Quadro2 |4.1.0Rem. |EZ Card|driver |7892 |aic7xxxRem. |CS |driver |7.1 | | |Pro AGP |(nv) |10/100 |rtl8139 |PCI | |4299 |cs4299 | | |________|_________|____________|BT_____|________|_______|_____________|______|_______|______| | | | |SMC | |Adaptec| |Cirrus| | | |X2000 |ATI |Yes XFree |1211 TX|Yes |AIC |Yes driver |Logic |Yes |RedHat| |(A7238A,|fireGL2 |4.1.0Rem. |EZ Card|driver |7892 |aic7xxxRem. |CS |driver |7.1 | |A7862A) |AGPRem. |(fireglRem.)|10/100 |rtl8139 |PCI | |4299 |cs4299 | | |________|_________|____________|BT_____|________|_______|_____________|______|_______|______| | | | |SMC | |Adaptec| |Cirrus| | | |X2000 | | |1211 TX|Yes |AIC |Yes driver |Logic |Yes |RedHat| |(A7805A)|None |N/A |EZ Card|driver |7892 |aic7xxxRem. |CS |driver |7.1 | | | | |10/100 |rtl8139 |PCI | |4299 |cs4299 | | |________|_________|____________|BT_____|________|_______|_____________|______|_______|______| |X4000 |Matrox |Yes XFree |Intel |Yes |Symbios| | | | | |(A7264A,|Millenium|4.1.0Rem. |PRO 10/|driver |Logic |Yes driver |??? |??? |RedHat| |A8034A) |G450D |(mga) |100 BT |eepro100|53C810 |ncr53c8xxRem.| | |7.1 | |________|AGPRem.__|____________|_______|or_e100_|PCI____|_____________|______|_______|______| |X4000 | | |Intel |Yes |Symbios| | | | | |(A7265A,|None |N/A |PRO 10/|driver |Logic |Yes driver |??? |??? |RedHat| |A8037A) | | |100 BT |eepro100|53C810 |ncr53c8xxRem.| | |7.1 | |________|_________|____________|_______|or_e100_|PCI____|_____________|______|_______|______| |X4000 |nVidia |Yes XFree |Intel |Yes |Symbios| | | | | |(A7266A,|Quadro2 |4.1.0Rem. |PRO 10/|driver |Logic |Yes driver |??? |??? |RedHat| |A8035A) |Pro AGP |(nv) |100 BT |eepro100|53C810 |ncr53c8xxRem.| | |7.1 | |________|_________|____________|_______|or_e100_|PCI____|_____________|______|_______|______| |X4000 |ATI |Yes XFree |Intel |Yes |Symbios| | | | | |(A7267A,|fireGL2 |4.1.0Rem. |PRO 10/|driver |Logic |Yes driver |??? |??? |RedHat| |A8036A) |AGPRem. |(fireglRem.)|100 BT |eepro100|53C810 |ncr53c8xxRem.| | |7.1 | |________|_________|____________|_______|or_e100_|PCI____|_____________|______|_______|______| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.2.1.4. Workstations accessories The following table provides all information on the support for this hardware by Linux. Table 3-8. Workstations accessories __________________________________________________________________________ |Reference______|Card_type_|Chipset____________|Linux_support_______|Tested| |A6076A |Video Card|ATI fireGL2 AGPRem.|Yes XFree 4.1.0Rem. |No | |_______________|__________|___________________|(fireglRem.)________|______| |A7192A |Video Card|Matrox Millenium |Yes XFree 4.1.0Rem. |Yes | |_______________|__________|G450D_AGPRem.______|(mga)_______________|______| |A6064A, A6065A |Video Card|nVidia Quadro2 Pro |Yes XFree 4.1.0Rem. |No | |(MXR)__________|__________|AGP________________|(nv)________________|______| CD-ROM, DVD and ZIP drives are supported by Linux kernel. Read the various HOWTO for their use, following the interface type. There are 4 supported graphics cards with XFree86 on HP x2000 and x40000 systems with Linux: SynergyPlus, Synergy2, Matrox G450, and FireGL2/4. There are also 4 rpms that are associated with these cards and they must be present on your system in order to have a supported graphics environment: synergyplus, synergy2, firegl2 and mgag450. For example, to check for the existence of the firegl2 rpm, run _________________ | | | #rpm -q firegl2| |_________________| Once you have installed the new card and rebooted, run /usr/X11R6/bin/ graphicsconfig to configure the card. If it is a recognized card supported by your Linux system, the function will return the name of the card and it will be configured to run. At this point you may start up your X window environment. If it returns "UNKNOWN", then your graphics card either is not one of the 4 currently supported cards, or it is a newer/older version of the card than is supported. In either case you will need to run Xconfigurator to set it up. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.2.1.5. The mobile computer range (OmniBook) To suspend to disk the current session, you need to not have deleted the hibernation partition (type a0), which size should be the size of the RAM, to have support for APM in the kernel, and to use the key combination Fn+F12. To send the video signal, either to an external screen, or through the docking station, it is be necessary to add the following parameter to your XFree86 configuration file /etc/X11/XF86Config: ______________________ | | | [...] | | Section "Device" | | [...] | | Options "crt_screen"| | [...] | |______________________| This concerns mobile computers using ATI chipsets. The switch is done by pressing simultaneously on Fn-F5. Most of the OmniBook have in option a "Port Replicator" system allowing, according to the model, to support PCI cards, complementary ports, ... A Web page dedicated to Omnibook under Linux is available at: http:// www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/projects/omnibook/ The following table provides all information on the support for this hardware by Linux. Table 3-9. OmniBook and Linux ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ |Machine |Graphic Card|Linux support |Network|Linux |SCSI|Linux support|Sound Card |Linux |Tested | |____________|____________|_______________|Card___|support_|Card|_____________|____________|support____|_________| |OmniBook |Neomagic |Yes XFree | | | | | | | | |Sojourn |MagicGraph |4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None|N/A |??? |??? |No | |(F1430A)____|128XD_NM2160|(neomagic)_____|_______|________|____|_____________|____________|___________|_________| |OmniBook XE | | | | | | | | | | |(F1719W, |Silicon |Yes XFree | | | | |ESS Maestro |Yes driver | | |F1720W, |Motion LynxE|4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None|N/A |2 |maestroRem.|Yes | |F1721W, |SM810Rem. |(siliconmotion)| | | | | | | | |F1722W)_Rem.|____________|_______________|_______|________|____|_____________|____________|___________|_________| |OmniBook XE2| | | | | | | | | | |(F1664W, | | | | | | | | | | |F1666W|N | | | | | | | | | | |F1667W|N, | | | | | | | | | | |F1674W, | | | | | | | | | | |F1675W, | | | | | | | | | | |F1753W, | | | | | | | | | | |F1756W, | | | | | | | | | | |F1755W|N, | | | | | | | | | | |F1772W, |Silicon |Yes XFree | | | | |ESS Maestro | | | |F1774W|N, |Motion LynxE|4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None|N/A |3 |YesRem. |Yes | |F1775W|N, |SM810Rem. |(siliconmotion)| | | | | | | | |F1962W, | | | | | | | | | | |F2051W, | | | | | | | | | | |F2052W|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F2053W|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F2055W|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F2065W|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F2068W, | | | | | | | | | | |F2069W|K) | | | | | | | | | | |Rem.________|____________|_______________|_______|________|____|_____________|____________|___________|_________| |OmniBook XE3| | | | | | | | | | |(F2113W|K, |S3 Savage |Yes XFree | | | | |ESS Maestro | | | |F2114W|K, |AGPRem. |4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None|N/A |3 |YesRem. |Yes | |F3877W) Rem.| |(savage) | | | | | | | | |Rem.________|____________|_______________|_______|________|____|_____________|____________|___________|_________| |OmniBook XE3| | | | | | | | | | |(F2115W|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F2116W|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F2117W|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F2302W|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F2303W|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F2305W|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F2306W|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F2308W|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F2321W|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F2331W|K, |S3 Savage |Yes XFree |Accton |Yes | | |ESS Maestro | | | |F2334W|K, |AGPRem. |4.1.0Rem. |EN2242 |driver |None|N/A |3 |YesRem. |Yes | |F2335W|K, | |(savage) |minipci|tulip | | | | | | |F2336W|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F2396W|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F2400W|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F2402W|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F3708W|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F3863W|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F3937H, | | | | | | | | | | |F3939H, | | | | | | | | | | |F4139W) Rem.| | | | | | | | | | |Rem.________|____________|_______________|_______|________|____|_____________|____________|___________|_________| |OmniBook 500| |Yes XFree | | | | | | |RedHat | |(F2158W|K, | |4.1.0Rem. in | | | | | | |7.1, | |F2159W|K, |ATI Rage |Frame Buffer |None |N/A |None|N/A |ESS Maestro |YesRem. |Debian | |F2161W|K, |Mobility |mode | | | | |3 | |2.2, SuSE| |F2162W|K) | |(FBDEV)Rem. | | | | | | |7.1, 7.3 | |____________|____________|Rem.___________|_______|________|____|_____________|____________|___________|_________| |OmniBook 500| | | | | | | | | | |(F2164W|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F2165W|K, | |Yes XFree | | | | | | | | |F2167W|K, | |4.1.0Rem. in |3Com | | | | | |RedHat | |F2168W|K, |ATI Rage |Frame Buffer |3C556 |Yes | | |ESS Maestro | |7.1, | |F2974W|K, |Mobility |mode |10/100 |driver |None|N/A |3 |YesRem. |Debian | |F2975W|K, | |(FBDEV)Rem. |BT |Rem. | | | | |2.2 | |F3477W|K, | |Rem. | | | | | | | | |F3478W|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F3483W|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F3488W|K)___|____________|_______________|_______|________|____|_____________|____________|___________|_________| | |Chips & |Yes XFree | | | | | | |RedHat | |OmniBook 600|Technologies|4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None|N/A |??? |??? |6.x, | |() Rem. |CT65545 |(chips) | | | | | | |Debian | |____________|____________|_______________|_______|________|____|_____________|____________|___________|2.2______| |OmniBook 800| | | | | | | | | | |(F1360A, | | | | | | | | |Mandrake | |F1175A, |Neomagic |Yes XFree | | |SCSI|Yes driver |SoundBlaster|Yes driver |8.0, | |F1174A, |MagicGraph |4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |Card|ncr53c8xxRem.|compatible |sb |Debian | |F1173A, |128XD NM2160|(neomagic) | | | | | | |2.2 | |F1172A, | | | | | | | | | | |F1171A)_____|____________|_______________|_______|________|____|_____________|____________|___________|_________| |OmniBook 900|Neomagic |Yes XFree | | | | | | | | |(F1711W|N, |MagicGraph |4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None|N/A |Analog |Yes driver |Mandrake | |F1712W|N, |256AV NM2200|(neomagic) | | | | |Device 1848 |AD1848 |8.1 | |F1760W|N)___|____________|_______________|_______|________|____|_____________|____________|___________|_________| |OmniBook 900| |Yes XFree | | | | | | | | |(F1769W|N|K,| |4.1.0Rem. in | | | | | | | | |F1770W|N|K, |ATI Rage |Frame Buffer |None |N/A |None|N/A |ESS Maestro |Yes driver |Mandrake | |F1979W|N|K, |Mobility |mode | | | | |2 |maestroRem.|8.1 | |F1980W|N|K, | |(FBDEV)Rem. | | | | | | | | |F2007W|N|K)_|____________|Rem.___________|_______|________|____|_____________|____________|___________|_________| |OmniBook |Chips & |Yes XFree | | | | | | | | |2000 |Technologies|4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None|N/A |??? |??? |No | |(F1356A, |CT65554 |(chips) | | | | | | | | |F1397A)_____|____________|_______________|_______|________|____|_____________|____________|___________|_________| |OmniBook | | | | | | | | | | |2100 | | | | | | | | | | |(F1584W, | | | | | | | | | | |F1580W, |Neomagic |Yes XFree | | | | | | | | |F1581W, |MagicGraph |4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None|N/A |Crystal CS |Yes |Yes | |F1597W, |128XD NM2160|(neomagic) | | | | |4232 | | | |F1598W, | | | | | | | | | | |F1599W, | | | | | | | | | | |F1600W, | | | | | | | | | | |F1729W)_____|____________|_______________|_______|________|____|_____________|____________|___________|_________| |OmniBook | | | | | | | | | | |3000 |Neomagic |Yes XFree | | | | |Crystal CS | | | |(F1391A, |MagicGraph |4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None|N/A |4232 |Yes |No | |F1392A, |128XD NM2160|(neomagic) | | | | | | | | |F1393A)_____|____________|_______________|_______|________|____|_____________|____________|___________|_________| |OmniBook |Neomagic |Yes XFree | | | | |SoundBlaster|Yes driver | | |3100 |MagicGraph |4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None|N/A |compatible |sb |No | |(F1582W)____|128XD_NM2160|(neomagic)_____|_______|________|____|_____________|____________|___________|_________| |OmniBook | |Yes XFree | | | | | | | | |4000 () |WD90C24 PCI |3.3.6Rem. |None |N/A |None|N/A |??? |??? |No | |____________|____________|(SVGA)_________|_______|________|____|_____________|____________|___________|_________| |OmniBook | | | | | | | | | | |4100 | | | | | | | | | | |(F1462W, |Neomagic |Yes XFree | | | | | | | | |F1463W, |MagicGraph |4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None|N/A |??? |??? |Yes | |F1479W, |128XD NM2160|(neomagic) | | | | | | | | |F1464W, | | | | | | | | | | |F1703W)_____|____________|_______________|_______|________|____|_____________|____________|___________|_________| |OmniBook | | | | | | | | | | |4150 Rem. | | | | | | | | | | |(F1629W|N, | | | | | | | | | | |F1640W|N, |Neomagic |Yes XFree | | | | | | |Mandrake,| |F1641W|N, |MagicGraph |4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None|N/A |??? |??? |Debian | |F1642W|N, |256AV NM2200|(neomagic) | | | | | | | | |F1647W|N, | | | | | | | | | | |F1648W|N, | | | | | | | | | | |F1663W|N)___|____________|_______________|_______|________|____|_____________|____________|___________|_________| |OmniBook | | | | | | | | | | |4150 | | | | | | | | | | |(F1649W|N|K,| |Yes XFree | | | | | | | | |F1650W|N|K, | |4.1.0Rem. in | | | | | | | | |F1658W|N, |ATI Rage |Frame Buffer |None |N/A |None|N/A |ESS Maestro |Yes driver |Yes | |F1660W|N, |Mobility |mode | | | | |2 |maestroRem.| | |F1662W|N|K, | |(FBDEV)Rem. | | | | | | | | |F1976W|N|K, | |Rem. | | | | | | | | |F1983W|N|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F2000W|N|K)_|____________|_______________|_______|________|____|_____________|____________|___________|_________| |OmniBook |Chips & |Yes XFree | | | | |Crystal CS | | | |5000 () |Technologies|4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None|N/A |4232 |Yes |Yes | |____________|CT65545_____|(chips)________|_______|________|____|_____________|____________|___________|_________| |OmniBook |Chips & |Yes XFree | | | | |Crystal CS | | | |5500 () |Technologies|4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None|N/A |4232 |Yes |Yes | |____________|CT65548_____|(chips)________|_______|________|____|_____________|____________|___________|_________| |OmniBook | | | | | | | | | | |5700 | | | | | | | | |RedHat | |(F1352A, |Chips & |Yes XFree | | | | | | |7.0, 7.1,| |F1353A, |Technologies|4.1.0Rem. |None |N/A |None|N/A |??? |??? |7.2, | |F1396A, |CT65554 |(chips) | | | | | | |Mandrake | |F1354A, | | | | | | | | |7.1 | |F1355A)_____|____________|_______________|_______|________|____|_____________|____________|___________|_________| |OmniBook | | | | | | | | | | |6000 Rem. | | | | | | | | | | |(F2072W|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F2079W|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F2081W|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F2083W|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F2087W|K, | | | | | | | | |RedHat | |F2090W|K, | |Yes XFree | | | | | | |6.2, 7.0,| |F2140W|K, | |4.1.0Rem. in |3Com |Yes | | | | |7.1, | |F2144W|K, |ATI Rage |Frame Buffer |3C556 |driver |None|N/A |ESS Maestro |YesRem. |Debian | |F2148W|K, |Mobility |mode |10/100 |Rem. | | |3 | |2.2, | |F2150W|K, | |(FBDEV)Rem. |BT | | | | | |Mandrake | |F2186W|K, | |Rem. | | | | | | |7.1, 8.0 | |F2182W|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F2184W|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F2188W|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F2197W|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F2200W|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F2202W|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F2205W|K)___|____________|_______________|_______|________|____|_____________|____________|___________|_________| |OmniBook | | | | | | | | | | |6100 Rem. | | | | | | | | | | |(F3251W|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F3253W|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F3257W|K, | | |Intel |Yes | | | | |RedHat | |F3259W|K, |ATI Radeon |Yes XFree |PRO 10/|driver |None|N/A |ESS Maestro |YesRem. |7.2, | |F3260W|K, |Mobility AGP|4.1.0Rem. (ati)|100 BT |eepro100| | |3 | |Mandrake | |F3262W|K, | | | |or e100 | | | | |8.1 | |F3263W|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F3265W|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F3266W|K, | | | | | | | | | | |F3268W|K)___|____________|_______________|_______|________|____|_____________|____________|___________|_________| |OmniBook | | | | | | | | | | |7100 |ATI Rage LT |Yes XFree |None |N/A |None|N/A |SoundBlaster|Yes driver |RedHat | |(F1441W, |Pro |4.1.0Rem. (ati)| | | | |compatible |sb |7.0 | |F1442W)_____|____________|_______________|_______|________|____|_____________|____________|___________|_________| |OmniBook |ATI Rage LT |Yes XFree | | | | |ESS Maestro |Yes driver | | |7150 |Pro |4.1.0Rem. (ati)|None |N/A |None|N/A |2 |maestroRem.|No | |(F1443W)____|____________|_______________|_______|________|____|_____________|____________|___________|_________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.2.1.6. Mobile computer accessories The cards mentionned below are PCMCIA or PC-Card cards. The following table provides all information on the support for this hardware by Linux. Table 3-10. Mobile computer accessories _____________________________________________________________________________ |Reference|Card_type_____|Chipset________________|Linux_support________|Tested| |F1623A |Modem/Net Card|Xircom CEM56-100 56Kb |Yes driver xirc2ps_cs|Yes | |_________|______________|10/100_BT______________|_____________________|______| |F1625A___|Modem_Card____|???____________________|???__________________|No____| |F1626A |Network Card |3Com 3CXFE575BT 10/100 |??? |No | |_________|______________|BT_____________________|_____________________|______| |F1626B___|Network_Card__|???____________________|???__________________|No____| |F2136B___|Network_Card__|Lucent_802.11b_wireless|???__________________|No____| |F1643A___|Modem/Net_Card|???____________________|???__________________|No____| |F1782A___|Modem/Net_Card|???____________________|???__________________|No____| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.2.1.7. The handheld range (Jornada) The following table provides all information on the support for this hardware by Linux. Table 3-11. Jornada and Linux __________________________________________________________________________ |Machine |Graphic|Linux |Network|Linux |SCSI|Linux |Sound|Linux |Tested| |________|Card___|support|Card___|support|Card|support|Card_|support|______| |Jornada | | | | | | | | | | |710 |??? |??? |None |N/A |None|N/A |None |N/A |No | |(F1889A)|_______|_______|_______|_______|____|_______|_____|_______|______| |Jornada | | | | | | | | | | |720 |??? |??? |None |N/A |None|N/A |None |N/A |No | |(F1816A,| | | | | | | | | | |F1430A)_|_______|_______|_______|_______|____|_______|_____|_______|______| For this machine look at : http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/machines/ ?action=list&id=49 Models 620, 680 and 690, equiped with a superH processor are also supported by the Linux Kernel. The other models of Jornada can not run Linux. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.2.1.8. The server range (NetServer) A page on how Linux works on HP NetServers is available at http:// www.netserver.hp.com/netserver/products/highlights_linux.asp An official compatibility matrix of HP NetServers with Linux and other operating systems is available at : http://netserver.hp.com/products/ highlights_nos.asp Documents (in japanese) written by Junichi Shimoda concerning management of AMI Megaraid cards and HP Instant TopTools under Linux are respectively available at http://www.jpn.hp.com/biz/products/pcserver/linux/document/pdf/ rh70_lp1000r_megamgr.pdf and http://www.jpn.hp.com/biz/products/pcserver/linux/ document/pdf/instanttt-rh62.pdf Official documents to help configuring NetServers under Linux RedHat 5.2 and 6.0 are also available. The following table provides all information on the support for this hardware by Linux. Table 3-12. NetServers and Linux ____________________________________________________________________________________________ |Machine |Graphic|Linux |Network |Linux |SCSI |Linux support|Sound|Linux |Tested | |___________|Card___|support__|Card____|support_|Card___|_____________|Card_|support|________| |NetServer | | |Intel | | | | | | | |E45 |Cirrus | |i82557 /|Yes |Adaptec| | | | | |(D4973A, |Logic |Yes XFree|i82558 |driver |AIC |Yes driver | | | | |D4974A, |GD 5446|4.1.0Rem.|10/100 |eepro100|2910bui|aic7xxxRem. |None |N/A |No | |D4975A, |PCI |(cirrus) |BT |or e100 |(7860) | | | | | |D4976A, | | |(D5013A/| |PCI | | | | | |D5971A)____|_______|_________|B)______|________|_______|_____________|_____|_______|________| |NetServer | | |Intel | | | | | | | |E50 | | |i82557 /| | | | | | | |(D6034A, |Cirrus |Yes XFree|i82558 |Yes |Adaptec| | | | | |D6033A, |Logic |4.1.0Rem.|10/100 |driver |AIC |Yes driver |None |N/A |Yes | |D6035A, |GD 5446|(cirrus) |BT |eepro100|7880 UW|aic7xxxRem. | | | | |D6031A, |PCI | |(D5013A/|or e100 |PCI | | | | | |D6030A, | | |B) | | | | | | | |D6032A)____|_______|_________|________|________|_______|_____________|_____|_______|________| | | | |Intel |Yes |Adaptec| | | | | |NetServer |ATI |Yes XFree|S82093A |driver |AIC |Yes driver | | | | |E55 |Rage II|4.1.0Rem.|/ i82559|eepro100|7895H |aic7xxxRem. |None |N/A |No | |(D9337A) |C AGP |(ati) |10/100 |or e100 |PCI | | | | | |___________|_______|_________|BT______|________|_______|_____________|_____|_______|________| |NetServer | | | | | | | | | | |E60 | | | | | | | | | | |(D7140A, | | | | | | | | | | |D7142A, | | |Intel |Yes |Adaptec| | | | | |D7144A, |ATI |Yes XFree|S82093A |driver |AIC |Yes driver | | | | |D7146A, |Rage II|4.1.0Rem.|/ i82559|eepro100|7895H |aic7xxxRem. |None |N/A |Yes | |D7148A, |C AGP |(ati) |10/100 |or e100 |PCI | | | | | |D9123A, | | |BT | | | | | | | |D9127A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9128A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9129A)____|_______|_________|________|________|_______|_____________|_____|_______|________| | | | |Intel | | | | | | | |NetServer | | |i82557 /|Yes | | | | | | |E200 |ATI |Yes XFree|i82558 |driver | | | | | | |(P4595A, |Rage II|4.1.0Rem.|10/100 |eepro100|None |N/A |None |N/A |No | |P5404A, |C AGP |(ati) |BT |or e100 | | | | | | |P5447A) | | |(D5013A/| | | | | | | |___________|_______|_________|B)______|________|_______|_____________|_____|_______|________| |NetServer | | |Intel | | | | | | | |E200 | | |i82557 /|Yes |Adaptec| | | | | |(P1205A, |ATI |Yes XFree|i82558 |driver |AIC |Yes driver | | | | |P2448A, |Rage II|4.1.0Rem.|10/100 |eepro100|7880 UW|aic7xxxRem. |None |N/A |No | |P4594A, |C AGP |(ati) |BT |or e100 |PCI | | | | | |P5403A) | | |(D5013A/| | | | | | | |___________|_______|_________|B)______|________|_______|_____________|_____|_______|________| |NetServer | | | | | | | | | | |E800 | | | | | | | | | | |(D9400A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9402A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9404A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9408A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9409, | | | | | | | | | | |D9411A, | | | | | | | | | | |P1195A, | | | | | | | | | | |P1200A, | | | | | | | | | | |P2457A, | | | | | | | | | | |P2458A, | | |Intel |Yes |2 | | | |RedHat | |P2460A, |ATI |Yes XFree|S82093A |driver |Symbios|Yes driver | | |7.0, | |P2477A, |Rage II|4.1.0Rem.|/ i82559|eepro100|Logic |sym53c8xxRem.|None |N/A |Mandrake| |P2502A, |C AGP |(ati) |10/100 |or e100 |53C896 | | | |7.2 | |P2503A, | | |BT | |PCI | | | | | |P2504A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3428A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3432A, | | | | | | | | | | |P5368A, | | | | | | | | | | |P5370A, | | | | | | | | | | |P5372A, | | | | | | | | | | |P5374A, | | | | | | | | | | |P5551A, | | | | | | | | | | |P5553A, | | | | | | | | | | |P7655A ) | | | | | | | | | | |Rem._______|_______|_________|________|________|_______|_____________|_____|_______|________| | |Trident|Yes XFree| | |Adaptec| | | | | |NetServer |TVGA |3.3.6Rem.|None |N/A |AIC |Yes driver |None |N/A |Yes | |LC (D3343A)|9000i |(SVGA) | | |7770 |aic7xxxRem. | | | | |___________|_______|_________|________|________|EISA___|_____________|_____|_______|________| |NetServer | | | | | | | | | | |LCII | | | | | | | | | | |(D4907A, | | |Intel | | | | | | | |D4909A, |Cirrus | |i82557 /|Yes |Adaptec| | | | | |D5014A, |Logic |Yes XFree|i82558 |driver |AIC |Yes driver | | | | |D5015A, |GD 5446|4.1.0Rem.|10/100 |eepro100|7880 UW|aic7xxxRem. |None |N/A |Yes | |D5016A, |PCI |(cirrus) |BT |or e100 |PCI | | | | | |D5969A, | | |(D5013A/| | | | | | | |D5970A, | | |B) | | | | | | | |D5959A, | | | | | | | | | | |D5961A)____|_______|_________|________|________|_______|_____________|_____|_______|________| |NetServer | | | | | | | | | | |LC3 | | | | | | | | | | |(D6123A, | | |Intel | | | | | | | |D7018A, | | |i82557 /| | | | | | | |D6125A, |Cirrus |Yes XFree|i82558 |Yes |Adaptec| | | | | |D7020A, |Logic |4.1.0Rem.|10/100 |driver |AIC |Yes driver |None |N/A |Yes | |D7028A, |GD 5446|(cirrus) |BT |eepro100|7880 UW|aic7xxxRem. | | | | |D7025A, |PCI | |(D5013A/|or e100 |PCI | | | | | |D7126A, | | |B) | | | | | | | |D8594A) | | | | | | | | | | |Chipset | | | | | | | | | | |BXRem._____|_______|_________|________|________|_______|_____________|_____|_______|________| |NetServer | | | | | | | | | | |LC2000 | | | | | | | | | | |(D8514A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8515A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8519A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8520A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8524A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8525A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9162A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9163A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9164A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9165A, | | |Intel |Yes |2 | | | |RedHat | |P1802A, |ATI |Yes XFree|S82093A |driver |Symbios|Yes driver | | |6.2, | |P1802B, |Rage II|4.1.0Rem.|/ i82559|eepro100|Logic |ncr53c8xxRem.|None |N/A |7.0, | |P1804A, |C AGP |(ati) |10/100 |or e100 |53C897 | | | |Mandrake| |P1804B, | | |BT | |PCI | | | |7.2, 8.1| |P2478A, | | | | | | | | | | |P2478B, | | | | | | | | | | |P2479A, | | | | | | | | | | |P2479B, | | | | | | | | | | |P3493A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3493B, | | | | | | | | | | |P5364B, | | | | | | | | | | |P5550B) | | | | | | | | | | |Chipset | | | | | | | | | | |i820Rem. | | | | | | | | | | |Rem._Rem.__|_______|_________|________|________|_______|_____________|_____|_______|________| |NetServer | | |Intel | | | | | | | |LDPro | | |i82557 /|Yes |Adaptec| | | | | |(D4944A, |Trident|Yes XFree|i82558 |driver |AIC |Yes driver | | | | |D4946A, |TVGA |3.3.6Rem.|10/100 |eepro100|7880 UW|aic7xxxRem. |None |N/A |No | |D4961A, |9000i |(SVGA) |BT |or e100 |PCI | | | | | |D4962A) | | |(D5013A/| | | | | | | |___________|_______|_________|B)______|________|_______|_____________|_____|_______|________| |NetServer | | | | |2 | | | | | |LHPro |Trident|Yes XFree| | |Adaptec| | | | | |(D4979A, |TVGA |3.3.6Rem.|None |N/A |AIC |Yes driver |None |N/A |Yes | |D4980A, |9000i |(SVGA) | | |7880 UW|aic7xxxRem. | | | | |D4981A, | | | | |PCI | | | | | |D4982A)____|_______|_________|________|________|_______|_____________|_____|_______|________| |NetServer | | | | | | | | | | |LHII | | | | |2 | | | | | |(D5017A, |Trident|Yes XFree| | |Adaptec| | | | | |D5953A, |TVGA |3.3.6Rem.|None |N/A |AIC |Yes driver |None |N/A |Yes | |D5021A, |9000i |(SVGA) | | |7880 UW|aic7xxxRem. | | | | |D5023A, | | | | |PCI | | | | | |D6047A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6048A)____|_______|_________|________|________|_______|_____________|_____|_______|________| |NetServer | | | | | | | | | | |LH3 | | | | | | | | | | |(D4998A, | | | | | | | | | | |D5002A, | | | | | | | | | | |D5000A, | | |Intel | | | | | | | |D5004A, | | |i82557 /| |2 | | | | | |D7033A, |Cirrus |Yes XFree|i82558 |Yes |Symbios| | | | | |D7034A, |Logic |4.1.0Rem.|10/100 |driver |Logic |Yes driver |None |N/A |Yes | |D8503A, |GD 5446|(cirrus) |BT |eepro100|53C895 |ncr53c8xxRem.| | | | |D8504A, |PCI | |(D5013A/|or e100 |PCI | | | | | |D8567A, | | |B) | | | | | | | |D8568A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9343A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9344A) | | | | | | | | | | |Chipset | | | | | | | | | | |BXRem._Rem.|_______|_________|________|________|_______|_____________|_____|_______|________| |NetServer | | | | | | | | | | |LH3000 | | | | | | | | | | |(D8228A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8230A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8236A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8238A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8244A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8246A, | | | | |Adaptec| | | | | |D9176A, | | | | |AIC | | | | | |D9178A, | | |Intel |Yes |7880 |Yes driver | | |RedHat | |D9180A, |ATI |Yes XFree|S82093A |driver |PCI + 2|aic7xxx and | | |6.2, | |D9182A, |Rage II|4.1.0Rem.|/ i82559|eepro100|Symbios|driver |None |N/A |7.0, | |P1794A, |C AGP |(ati) |10/100 |or e100 |Logic |sym53c8xx | | |Mandrake| |P1794B, | | |BT | |53C896 | | | |7.2, 8.1| |P1796A, | | | | |PCI | | | | | |P1796B, | | | | | | | | | | |P2482A, | | | | | | | | | | |P2482B, | | | | | | | | | | |P2483A, | | | | | | | | | | |P2483B) | | | | | | | | | | |Chipset | | | | | | | | | | |BXRem. Rem.| | | | | | | | | | |Rem._______|_______|_________|________|________|_______|_____________|_____|_______|________| |NetServer | | | | | | | | | | |LH4 | | | | | | | | | | |(D7092A, | | | | | | | | | | |D7093A, | | | | | | | | | | |D7094A, | | | | | | | | | | |D7095A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6971A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6972A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6973A, | | |Intel | | | | | | | |D6974A, | | |i82557 /| |2 | | | |RedHat | |D7103A, |Cirrus |Yes XFree|i82558 |Yes |Symbios| | | |6.0, | |D7104A, |Logic |4.1.0Rem.|10/100 |driver |Logic |Yes driver |None |N/A |6.1, | |D8552A, |GD 5446|(cirrus) |BT |eepro100|53C895 |ncr53c8xxRem.| | |6.2, | |D8553A, |PCI | |(D5013A/|or e100 |PCI | | | |7.0, NOT| |D8556A, | | |B) | | | | | |7.1, 7.2| |D8557A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8560A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8561A, | | | | | | | | | | |P1225A, | | | | | | | | | | |P1227A) | | | | | | | | | | |Chipset | | | | | | | | | | |BXRem. | | | | | | | | | | |Rem.Rem. | | | | | | | | | | |Rem._______|_______|_________|________|________|_______|_____________|_____|_______|________| |NetServer | | | | | | | | | | |LH6000 | | | | | | | | | | |(D9103A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9104A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9107A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9108A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9190A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9190B, | | | | |Adaptec| | | | | |D9192A, | | |Intel | |AIC | | | |RedHat | |D9192B, |ATI |Yes XFree|S82093A |Yes |7880 |Yes driver | | |6.2, | |D9194A, |Rage II|4.1.0Rem.|/ i82559|driver |PCI + 2|aic7xxx and |None |N/A |7.0, | |D9194B, |C AGP |(ati) |10/100 |eepro100|Symbios|driver | | |Mandrake| |D9196A, | | |BT |or e100 |Logic |sym53c8xx | | |7.2, 8.1| |D9196B, | | | | |53C896 | | | | | |P1816B, | | | | |PCI | | | | | |P1817B, | | | | | | | | | | |P2622A, | | | | | | | | | | |P2623A) | | | | | | | | | | |Chipset | | | | | | | | | | |BXRem. Rem.| | | | | | | | | | |Rem. Rem. | | | | | | | | | | |Rem._______|_______|_________|________|________|_______|_____________|_____|_______|________| |NetServer | | | | | | | | | | |LPr | | | | | | | | | | |(D6130A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6131A, | | | | | | | | | | |D7171A, | | |Intel | | | | | | | |D9133A, |Cirrus | |i82557 /|Yes |Symbios| | | | | |D9348A, |Logic |Yes XFree|i82558 |driver |Logic |Yes driver | | |RedHat | |D9431A, |GD 5446|4.1.0Rem.|10/100 |eepro100|53C895 |ncr53c8xxRem.|None |N/A |6.2 | |D9434A, |PCI |(cirrus) |BT |or e100 |PCI | | | | | |P1736A, | | |(D5013A/| | | | | | | |P1738A, | | |B) | | | | | | | |P1820A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3417A) | | | | | | | | | | |Chipset | | | | | | | | | | |BXRem._____|_______|_________|________|________|_______|_____________|_____|_______|________| |NetServer | | | | | | | | |RedHat | |LP1000r | | | | | | | | |6.1, | |(P1810A, | | |2 x |Yes |2 | | | |6.2, | |P1812A, |ATI |Yes XFree|Intel |driver |Symbios|Yes driver | | |7.0, | |P2465A, |Rage II|4.1.0Rem.|i82559 |eepro100|Logic |sym53c8xxRem.|None |N/A |7.1, | |P4632A, |C AGP |(ati) |10/100 |or e100 |53C1010| | | |Mandrake| |P4634A) | | |BT | |PCI | | | |7.2, | |Rem. Rem. | | | | | | | | |8.1, | |___________|_______|_________|________|________|_______|_____________|_____|_______|SuSE_7.0| |NetServer | | |2 x |Yes |2 | | | |Preload | |LP1000r |ATI |Yes XFree|Intel |driver |Symbios|Yes driver | | |RedHat | |(P3573A) |Rage II|4.1.0Rem.|i82559 |eepro100|Logic |sym53c8xxRem.|None |N/A |7.0 | |Rem. Rem. |C AGP |(ati) |10/100 |or e100 |53C1010| | | |based | |Rem._______|_______|_________|BT______|________|PCI____|_____________|_____|_______|________| |NetServer | | |2 x |Yes |2 | | | | | |LP1000r |ATI |Yes XFree|Intel |driver |Symbios|Yes driver | | |Preload | |(P3574A) |Rage II|4.1.0Rem.|i82559 |eepro100|Logic |sym53c8xxRem.|None |N/A |SuSE 7.0| |Rem. Rem. |C AGP |(ati) |10/100 |or e100 |53C1010| | | |based | |Rem._______|_______|_________|BT______|________|PCI____|_____________|_____|_______|________| |NetServer | | | | | | | | |RedHat | |LP2000r | | | | | | | | |6.1, | |(P1824A, | | |2 x |Yes |2 | | | |6.2, | |P1827A, |ATI |Yes XFree|Intel |driver |Symbios|Yes driver | | |7.0, | |P1830A, |Rage II|4.1.0Rem.|i82559 |eepro100|Logic |sym53c8xxRem.|None |N/A |7.1, | |P3576A, |C AGP |(ati) |10/100 |or e100 |53C1010| | | |Mandrake| |P4636A, | | |BT | |PCI | | | |7.2, | |P4638A) | | | | | | | | |8.1, | |Rem._Rem.__|_______|_________|________|________|_______|_____________|_____|_______|SuSE_7.0| | | | |Intel | | | | | | | |Cluster |Cirrus | |i82557 /|Yes |Symbios| | | | | |NetServer |Logic |Yes XFree|i82558 |driver |Logic |Yes driver | | | | |LPr |GD 5446|4.1.0Rem.|10/100 |eepro100|53C895 |ncr53c8xxRem.|None |N/A |Yes | |(D6131A, |PCI |(cirrus) |BT |or e100 |PCI | | | | | |P1133A)Rem.| | |(D5013A/| | | | | | | |___________|_______|_________|B)______|________|_______|_____________|_____|_______|________| |NetServer | | | | | | | | | | |LT6000r | | | | | | | | | | |(D9143A, | | | | | | | | | | |D9145A, | | | | |Adaptec| | | | | |P1756A, | | | | |AIC | | | | | |P1756B, | | |Intel |Yes |7880 |Yes driver | | |RedHat | |P1758A, |ATI |Yes XFree|S82093A |driver |PCI + 2|aic7xxx and | | |6.2, | |P1758B, |Rage II|4.1.0Rem.|/ i82559|eepro100|Symbios|driver |None |N/A |7.0, | |P1821B, |C AGP |(ati) |10/100 |or e100 |Logic |sym53c8xx | | |Mandrake| |P2621A, | | |BT | |53C896 | | | |7.2, 8.1| |P3460) | | | | |PCI | | | | | |Chipset | | | | | | | | | | |BXRem. Rem.| | | | | | | | | | |Rem. Rem. | | | | | | | | | | |Rem._______|_______|_________|________|________|_______|_____________|_____|_______|________| |NetServer | | | | | | | | | | |LXePro/ | | | | | | | | | | |LXPro | | | | | | | | | | |(D4920B, | | | | | | | | | | |D4925B, | | | | | | | | | | |D6036A, | | | | | | | | | | |D4311B, | | | | | | | | | | |D4312B, | | | | |2 | | | | | |D6037A, |Cirrus |Yes XFree| | |Adaptec| | | | | |D4315B, |Logic |3.3.6Rem.|None |N/A |AIC |Yes driver |None |N/A |RedHat | |D4958B, |GD 5424|(SVGA) | | |7880 UW|aic7xxxRem. | | |7.0 | |D6014A, |PCI | | | |PCI | | | | | |D6015A, | | | | | | | | | | |D4964B, | | | | | | | | | | |D4898A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6016A, | | | | | | | | | | |D4899A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6017A, | | | | | | | | | | |D4900A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6018A)____|_______|_________|________|________|_______|_____________|_____|_______|________| |NetServer | | | | |Symbios| | | | | |LXrPro8 |? |? |None |N/A |logic |? |None |N/A |No | |(D5028A)___|_______|_________|________|________|UW_____|_____________|_____|_______|________| |NetServer | | | | | | | | | | |LXr8000 | | | | | | | | | | |(D6021A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6022A, | | | | | | | | | | |D6136A, |Cirrus | | | |2 | | | | | |D6137A, |Logic |Yes XFree| | |Symbios|Yes driver | | | | |D7000A, |GD 5446|4.1.0Rem.|None |N/A |Logic |sym53c8xxRem.|None |N/A |Yes | |D8256A, |PCI |(cirrus) | | |53C896 | | | | | |D8257A, | | | | |PCI | | | | | |D8258A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8546A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8548A) | | | | | | | | | | |Rem._______|_______|_________|________|________|_______|_____________|_____|_______|________| |NetServer | | | | | | | | | | |LXr8500 | | | | | | | | | | |(D8540A, | | | | | | | | | | |D8542A, |Cirrus | | | |2 | | | | | |D9317A, |Logic |Yes XFree| | |Symbios|Yes driver | | | | |D9417A, |GD 5446|4.1.0Rem.|None |N/A |Logic |sym53c8xxRem.|None |N/A |No | |D9418A, |PCI |(cirrus) | | |53C896 | | | | | |P1230A, | | | | |PCI | | | | | |P1765A, | | | | | | | | | | |P3461A) | | | | | | | | | | |Rem._______|_______|_________|________|________|_______|_____________|_____|_______|________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.2.1.9. NetServers accessories The following table provides all information on the support for this hardware by Linux. Table 3-13. NetServers accessories ___________________________________________________________________________ |Reference_____|Card_type_____|Chipset_______|Linux_support|Tested__________| | | | | |RedHat 6.0, 6.1,| |NetRaid 1 | |AMI Megaraid |Yes driver |6.2, 7.0, 7.1, | |D4992A |NetRaid Card |(Raid 0, 1, 3,|megaraidRem. |7.2, Mandrake | | | |5, 10, 50) | |7.2, 8.0, 8.1, | |______________|______________|______________|_____________|SuSE_7.0________| | | |AMI Megaraid | |RedHat 6.0, 6.1,| |NetRaid 1Si |NetRaid Card |(Raid 0, 1, 3,|Yes driver |6.2, 7.0, 7.1, | |D2140A | |5, 10, 50) |megaraidRem. |Mandrake 7.2, | |______________|______________|______________|_____________|8.0,_SuSE_7.0___| |NetRaid 1M | |AMI Megaraid |Yes driver |RedHat 6.1, 6.2,| |P3410A Rem. |NetRaid Card |(Raid 0, 1, 3,|megaraidRem. |7.0, 7.1, 7.2, | |______________|______________|5,_10,_50)____|_____________|Mandrake_8.1____| |NetRaid 2M | |AMI Megaraid |Yes driver |RedHat 6.1, 6.2,| |P3411A, P3475A|NetRaid Card |(Raid 0, 1, 3,|megaraidRem. |7.0, 7.1, 7.2, | |Rem.__________|______________|5,_10,_50)____|_____________|Mandrake_8.1____| | | | | |RedHat 6.0, 6.1,| |NetRaid 3 | |AMI Megaraid |Yes driver |6.2, 7.0, 7.1, | |D4943A |NetRaid Card |(Raid 0, 1, 3,|megaraidRem. |7.2, Mandrake | | | |5, 10, 50) | |7.2, 8.0, 8.1, | |______________|______________|______________|_____________|SuSE_7.0________| | | | | |RedHat 6.0, 6.1,| |NetRaid 3Si | |AMI Megaraid |Yes driver |6.2, 7.0, 7.1, | |D5955A |NetRaid Card |(Raid 0, 1, 3,|megaraidRem. |7.2, Mandrake | | | |5, 10, 50) | |7.2, 8.0, 8.1, | |______________|______________|______________|_____________|SuSE_7.0________| |NetRaid 4M | |Strong ARM |Yes driver |RedHat 7.0, 7.1,| |D9161A/D9351A |NetRaid Card |(Raid 0, 1, 3,|aacraidRem. |Mandrake 8.0, | |______________|______________|5,_10,_50)____|_____________|8.1_____________| |C1578B |SCSI Card |Adaptec AIC |Yes driver |No | |______________|______________|7895H_PCI_____|aic7xxxRem.__|________________| |C7430A |SCSI Card |Adaptec AIC |Yes driver |No | |______________|______________|7880_UW_PCI___|aic7xxxRem.__|________________| |D5025A |SCSI Card |Adaptec AIC |Yes driver |Yes | |______________|______________|7880_UW_PCI___|aic7xxxRem.__|________________| |D5252A |SCSI Card |Adaptec AIC |Yes driver |Yes | |______________|______________|7880_UWD_PCI__|aic7xxxRem.__|________________| |P3413A |SCSI Card |Adaptec AIC |Yes driver |RedHat 6.2, 7.0 | |______________|______________|29160_PCI_____|aic7xxxRem.__|________________| | | |Intel i82557 /|Yes driver |RedHat 6.2, 7.0,| |D5013A, D5013B|Network Card |i82558 10/100 |eepro100 or |7.1, Mandrake | |______________|______________|BT_(D5013A/B)_|e100_________|7.2,_8.0,_8.1___| | | |3Com ??? 10/ |Yes driver |RedHat 7.0, 7.1,| |P3482A |Network Card |100/1000 BT |bcm5700Rem. |7.2, Mandrake | |______________|______________|______________|_____________|8.0,_8.1________| |P3492_________|Network_Card__|???___________|???__________|No______________| |J2585B |Network Card |Carte 100VG |Yes driver |Yes | |______________|______________|(J2585B)______|hp100________|________________| |D6977A |Fibre Channel |??? |??? |No | |______________|Card__________|______________|_____________|________________| |D5246A |Fibre Channel |??? |??? |No | |______________|Card__________|______________|_____________|________________| |D8602A |Fibre Channel |??? |??? |No | |______________|Card__________|______________|_____________|________________| |D8602B |Fibre Channel |??? |??? |No | |______________|Card__________|______________|_____________|________________| |D6028A________|Top_Tools_Card|???___________|Yes__________|Yes_____________| |P1979A________|USB_Modem_____|???___________|???__________|No______________| |D8384B________|USB_Modem_____|Aztech_UM9800_|driver_Aztech|Yes_____________| For TopTools Remote Control Cards (TTRCC), the B.02.02 firmware release shows some strange symptoms at boot time, namely you get no data in your browser (Netscape on Linux) until way past selftest and LILO, so it's kind of hard to boot an alternate kernel. The fix is to 'downgrade' your firmware on the TTRCC to B.02.00. You can see what revision you're running on the TopTools 'Identity Screen'. You can flash the eeprom on the TTRCC anytime (unless you really want to make a DOS floppy and reboot) by tftping the right firmware (ttrc0200.bin) in the 'Configuration' tab -> 'Card Info' area, and press 'Update'. It takes a minute or so to download/verify/and reset the TTRCC. (Information from Lee Mayes) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.2.1.10. HP Server Appliances Information concerning these machines are available at http://www.hp.com/ products1/servers/serverappliances/ The "Web hosting" SA1100 (P4533A) and SA1120 (P4534A) machines are equiped with a RedHat based distribution of Linux. The "Web caching" SA2100 (P4535A), SA2150 (P4651A), SA2200 (P4536A) and SA2250 (P4537A) machines are equiped with a RedHat based distribution of Linux and of the Inktomi software. The hardware base is a LP1000r. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.2.1.11. HP Blade Server Information concerning these machines are available at http://www.hp.com/ products1/servers/blades/index.html * Debian: 2.2r3 kernel 2.2.19 * Red Hat: 7.0 kernel 2.2.16 * SuSE: 7.1 kernel 2.4.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.2.1.12. UPS Hp doesn't make UPS anymore, but has a world-wide agreement with APC. APC distributes a free software (no cost, not open-source), to manage its UPS under Linux. It's available at http://www.apcc.com/products/management/pcp_linux.cfm. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.2.1.13. Complementary information Please refer to the Hardware_Howto and Ethernet_Howto for other details concerning the support of some hardware elements by Linux. For video chipsets support, a fundamental page is the one of XFree86 with its supported chipsets list. Commercial servers are also available, as those of X-Inside and MetroLink Netvectra are not supported by Linux. Driver supporting the HP GPIB cards (IEEE 488) HP 27209 (= HP 82990, HP 61062, HP 88500) and HP 82335 is available at the following address : ftp:// ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/IEEE488. Another GPIB driver may be found at this address http://www.inesinc.com/ linux.htm. Multimedia keyboards Some of the PCs provided by HP are equiped with a multimedia keyboard. You may use the additional keys thanks to the HotKeys daemon (Cf: http:// freshmeat.net/projects/hotkeys/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.2.2. The monitors range The following table provides all information on the support for this hardware by XFree86. Table 3-14. HP Monitors and Linux _____________________________________________________________________________ |Reference|Name |Vert. F. |Hor. F. |Bandwidth|Resol. |Freq. (Hz)|Tested| |_________|_________|(Hz)_____|(kHz)___|(MHz)____|__________|__________|______| | |15" HP | | | |640x400, |70, 60-72-| | |D2825A, |Ultra VGA|50-110 |31-54 |65 |640x480, |75-85, 60-|Yes | |D2825S |1024 | | | |800x600, |72-75-85, | | |_________|_________|_________|________|_________|1024x768__|60________|______| | | | | | |640x400, |70, 60-75-| | |D2826A, |15" HP 50|50-120 |31-54 |65 |640x480, |85, 60-75-|Yes | |D2826S | | | | |800x600, |85, 60 | | |_________|_________|_________|________|_________|1024x768__|__________|______| |D2827A___|15"_HP_51|50-120___|31-54___|???______|???_______|???_______|No____| | | | | | |640x400, |70, 60-75-| | |D2828A |15" HP 52|50-120 |30-54 |65 |640x480, |85, 60-75-|No | | | | | | |800x600, |85, 60 | | |_________|_________|_________|________|_________|1024x768__|__________|______| |D8897A___|15"_HP_55|???______|30-54___|???______|???_______|???_______|No____| |P4795A___|15"_HP_56|???______|30-54___|???______|???_______|???_______|No____| | | | | | |640x400, |70, 60-75-| | | |15" HP | | | |640x480, |85, 72-75-| | |D2832A |M500 |50-120 |30-70 |110 |800x600, |85, 70-75-|No | | | | | | |1024x768, |85, 60 | | |_________|_________|_________|________|_________|1280x1024_|__________|______| |D2807A |17" Ultra|50-160 |30-64 |??? |??? |??? |Yes | |_________|1280_____|_________|________|_________|__________|__________|______| | | | | | |640x400, | | | | | | | | |640x480, |70, 75-85,| | |D2837A |17" HP70 |50-120 |30-70 |110 |800x600, |75-85, 75-|Yes | | | | | | |1024x768, |85, 60 | | |_________|_________|_________|________|_________|1280x1024_|__________|______| |D2838A |17" HP |50-160 |30-86 |??? |??? |??? |No | |_________|M700_____|_________|________|_________|__________|__________|______| |D8906A |17" HP |50-160 |30-86 |140 |??? |??? |No | |_________|P700_____|_________|________|_________|__________|__________|______| |D8907A |17" HP |??? |30-85 |??? |??? |??? |No | |_________|P720_____|_________|________|_________|__________|__________|______| | | | | | |512x384, | | | | | | | | |640x480, | | | | | | | | |800x600, |85, 100, | | |D2840A |17" Ergo |50-150 |31-92 |160 |1024x768, |100, 100, |Yes | | |1280 | | | |1152x864, |100, 85, | | | | | | | |1280x1024,|72, 60 | | | | | | | |1440x1080,| | | |_________|_________|_________|________|_________|1600x1200_|__________|______| | | | | | |640x400, | | | |D8901A, | | | | |640x480, |70, 60, | | |D8902A |17" HP71 |50-120 |30-60 |110 |800x600, |75-85, 75-|No | | | | | | |1024x768, |85, 60 | | |_________|_________|_________|________|_________|1280x1024_|__________|______| |D8904A, |17" HP72 |??? |30-70 |??? |??? |??? |No | |D8905A___|_________|_________|________|_________|__________|__________|______| | | | | | |640x400, |70, 60-75-| | | | | |30-86 | |640x480, |85, 75-85,| | |D8900A |17" HP75 |50-160 |(30-64 |150 |800x600, |75-75-85, |Yes | | | | |real) | |1024x768, |75 | | |_________|_________|_________|________|_________|1280x1024_|__________|______| | | | | | |640x400, | | | | | | | | |640x480, |70, 75-85,| | |D2842A, |19" HP90 |50-200 |30-96 |203 |800x600, |75-85, 75-|Yes | |D2842W | | | | |1024x768, |85, 75-85,| | | | | | | |1280x1024,|75 | | |_________|_________|_________|________|_________|1600x1200_|__________|______| | | | | | |640x400, | | | | | | | | |640x480, |70, 60-85,| | |D8910A |19" HP |50-150 |29-107 |230 |800x600, |85, 75-85,|No | | |P910 | | | |1024x768, |75-85, 75-| | | | | | | |1280x1024,|85 | | |_________|_________|_________|________|_________|1600x1200_|__________|______| |D8911A___|19"_HP91_|???______|30-96___|???______|???_______|???_______|No____| |D8912A |19" HP |??? |30-107 |??? |??? |??? |No | |_________|P920_____|_________|________|_________|__________|__________|______| |A4031A___|20"______|48-150___|30-82___|???______|???_______|???_______|Yes___| |D2846A, |21" HP |50-160 |30-107 |??? |??? |??? |No | |A4576A___|P1100____|_________|________|_________|__________|__________|______| |D2847A___|21"_P1110|50-180___|29-121__|300______|???_______|???_______|Yes___| |D8915A___|21"_P1120|???______|30-121__|???______|???_______|???_______|No____| |A4819A___|21"_P1130|???______|???_____|???______|???_______|???_______|No____| |A4033A___|21"______|50-120___|30-80___|???______|???_______|???_______|Yes___| |A1295A |24" Wide |50-160 |30-96 |??? |??? |??? |No | |_________|Aspect___|_________|________|_________|__________|__________|______| |D5061A |15,1" LCD|??? |??? |N/A |??? |??? |No | |_________|HP_______|_________|________|_________|__________|__________|______| |D5062A |15" LCD |??? |??-75 |N/A |??? |??? |No | |_________|HPL1510__|_________|________|_________|__________|__________|______| |D5063A |15" LCD |??? |??? |N/A |??? |??? |No | |_________|HPL1520__|_________|________|_________|__________|__________|______| |D5064A |17" LCD |??? |??? |N/A |??? |??? |No | |_________|HPL1720__|_________|________|_________|__________|__________|______| | | | | | |640x350, | | | | | | | | |640x480, |70, 60-75-| | | | | | | |720x400, |85, 70, | | | |18,1" LCD| | | |800x600, |60-75-85, | | |D5065A |HP L1800 |56-85 |30-80 |N/A |832x624, |75, 60-75-|Yes | | | | | | |1024x768, |85, 75, | | | | | | | |1152x870, |66, 60-75 | | | | | | | |1152x900, | | | |_________|_________|_________|________|_________|1280x1024_|__________|______| |D5069A, | | | | | | | | |D5069C, |18" LCD |??? |??-75 |N/A |??? |??? |No | |D5069J, |HPL1810 | | | | | | | |D5069L___|_________|_________|________|_________|__________|__________|______| |P4829A |18" LCD |??? |??? |N/A |??? |??? |No | |_________|HPL1820__|_________|________|_________|__________|__________|______| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.2.3. PA-Risc based computer range The PA-Risc range is achitectured around a processor designed and realised by HP. First versions were produced in 1987. Currently the versions are named PA- 8000 (8200, 8500, ...). The initiative to port Linux on the PA-RISC architecture was taken during the Atlanta Linux exhibition in October 1998. HP has announced in February 1999 its sponsorship to this port of Linux. This port is a native one, which is different from a preceding project which used MkLinux on machines based on PA- 7200. The work is currently done with The_Puffin_Group bought by Linuxcare, and more precise information on the status may be found on the official_Web_site. In particular, interesting starting points may be found on http://www.parisc- linux.org/faq.html and http://www.parisc-linux.org/hw.html. Consult also ESIEE site (712 on Linux/PA) which participates actively to the port : http:// mkhppa1.esiee.fr/en/ The last version is 0.9.3. It supports the following systems L1000, L2000, A500, A180, B, C, J, D, R, 742, 725, 735, 755, 705, 710, 720, 730, 750, 712, 715. This version supports 32 and 64 bits modes, SMP (1-4 way), RAM up to 16 GB, HP- UX compatibility, X-Window, KDE, Gnome, 80% of Debian packages. Debian has accepted PA-RISC as a supported architecture for the upcoming Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody) stable release. http://www.debian.org/ports/hppa/. Thomas Marteau has written a HOWTO on the way to boot concretely a Pa-Risc suystem. It's available at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/PA-RISC-Linux-Boot- HOWTO/index.html. FAQ is also available at http://dsportal.eservices.hp.com/dspp/tech/ tech_TechDocumentDetailPage_IDX/1,1701,276,00.html. There is on the other side for these machines a Linux project based on the MkLinux micro-kernel. This project as developped within OSF. The web site mentionning information is at http://www.gr.opengroup.org/mklinux/hppa/mkpa- rel.html. Links to more parisc ports are at http://parisc.workstations.org/. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.2.4. The IA-64 range HP has developed in collaboration with Intel a new generation of 64 bits processors called Itanium (IA-64). The first processor of this new generation, called Itanium, was born in September 2001. The initial port of Linux on IA-64 was published the 2nd of february, 2000 and the sources of the project are available through ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ports/ia64. This is the place of the latest sources for this project. More information on this topic may be found on these pages: http://www.hp.com/products1/linux/itanium/ index.html (LSO), http://devresource.hp.com/devresource/Topics/IA64/IA64.html and http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/index.html (HP Labs) or on the reference site http://www.linuxia64.org HP, as a founding member of the IA-64 Linux project, works on the port of the kernel, the initial version of gcc, gas, ld and emacs. Another major contribution of HP to this project is the availability of the software development kit available at http://www.software.hp.com/ia64linux. It allows to develop applications as well as kernel code on Linux/IA32 for IA64 platforms and moreover to test them through a simulator. You may find some useful tools for IA-64 architecture on the ftp site of the HP labs. Debian has accepted IA-64 as a supported architecture for the upcoming Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody) stable release. Cf: http://www.debian.org/ports/ia64/. The IA-64 installer CD image is now available by either HTTP or FTP from these locations: http://gluck.debian.org/ia64/cd-20010810.iso.gz and ftp:// gluck.debian.org/ia64/cd-20010810.iso.gz. MandrakeSoft has announced that its Mandrake 8.1 for IA-64 version supports perfectly HP Itanium configurations as related on http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ company/press/pr?n=/pr/products/1444en=en The following key features which are all unique to IA-64 are described by Stéphane Eranian: * IA-64/EPIC goes beyond pure VLIW. Code is portable from one implementation to another. The timing dependencies are protected by stop bits. This allow unmodified code to run with no recompilation. Of course better performance is achieved by recompilation. * Very large register set: 128 floating point, 128 general registers. * Predication: a very elegant way of removing the cost of branch in if-then- else statments. * Speculation: a elegant mechanism to hide memory access latency by allowing load instructions to be hoisted from the location where they are needed without risking unwanted faults (like NULL pointer). * Register Stack Engine: a mechanism similar to the register window found a SPARC but much more powerful and dynamic. The window size varies on demand. Take advantage of the large register set and is used on function calls. * Hardware support for software pipelined-loop: this is the most powerful construct which takes advantages of : predication, large registers. This is a renaming scheme for general, floating point or predication registers which allows one to unroll loops without incuring the code expansion seen on other architectures. * All the multmedia-type instructions are support in IA-64 mode. * IA-32 hardware emulation: possibility to run unmodified Linux/ia32 applications on Linux/ia64 (requires some OS support). * On the system level: full 64 bit address space. Hardware walker to TLB misses. * Banked registers (16 of them) to help speed up interrupt processing. Stéphane Eranian and David Mosberger will publish begining of 2002 a book called 'Design and implementation of the Linux/ia64 kernel' (Prentice Hall) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.2.4.1. The IA64 server range The following tables indicate the state of Linux support by these platforms : Table 3-15. HP IA-64 Servers and Linux _________________________________________________________________________________ |Machine |Graphic|Linux |Network|Linux |SCSI |Linux |Sound|Linux |Tested | |________|Card___|support__|Card___|support_|Card__|support|Card_|support|________| | | | |Intel | | | | | |RedHat | |rx4610 |ATI |Yes XFree|S82093A|Yes |Qlogic|Yes | | |7.0, | |(A6153A,|Rage |4.1.0Rem.|/ |driver |Ultra3|driver |None |N/A |7.1, | |A6447A) |128 AGP|(ati) |i82559 |eepro100|Wide |qla1280| | |Mandrake| | |8MB | |10/100 |or e100 |PCI | | | |8.0, 8.1| |________|_______|_________|BT_____|________|______|_______|_____|_______|________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.2.4.2. The IA64 workstation range The following tables indicate the state of Linux support by these platforms : Table 3-16. HP IA-64 Workstations and Linux ___________________________________________________________________________________ |Machine |Graphic|Linux |Network|Linux |SCSI |Linux |Sound |Linux |Tested | |________|Card___|support__|Card___|support_|Card__|support|Card__|support_|________| |i2000 |nVidia |Yes XFree|Intel |Yes |Qlogic|Yes |Cirrus|Yes |RedHat | |(A7202A,|Quadro2|4.1.0Rem.|PRO 10/|driver |Ultra3|driver |Logic |driver |7.1, | |A7203A) |Pro AGP|(nv) |100 BT |eepro100|Wide |qla1280|CS |AlsaRem.|Mandrake| |________|_______|_________|_______|or_e100_|PCI___|_______|4281__|________|8.1_____| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.2.4.3. Complementary information To boot Linux on this kind of machine, you need to type in the initial environment ____________________________________________________________________________ | | | Verify the correspondance between logical drives and peripherals | | Shell>map | | Go to the logical drive corresponding to the CD-ROM | | Shell>fs1: | | Boot the system | | fs1:>eli linux | | Install your distribution as usual | | The only difference is that you need to create a so-called 'EFI' partition| | of type FAT32 (Id:b) of around 128 MB. This partition will be mounted as /| | boot/efi later | | After the installation, reboot and redo the initial sequence, verifying | | again the correspondance (which may have changed because the CD-ROM isn't | | available anymore, the numbers indicating the order of detection of | | bootable devices) | | Shell>map | | Shell>fs0: | | Shell>dir | | Verify the name of the kernel to boot | | fs1:>eli linux-up | | To automize the boot, you need to remove all options from the EFI boot | | except the EFI Shell and create a file in the EFI partition (/boot/efi) | | called startup.nsh containing: | | fs0: | | eli linux-up | | fs0: | |____________________________________________________________________________| (From information provided by S. Eranian. Only mistakes are mine :-) David Mosberger reports that recent versions (7.2) of Red Hat install a GPT partition and that you must enable the following two config options for the kernel to recognize them: _____________________________ | | | CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED=y| | CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION=y | |_____________________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.2.5. X Terminals HP proposes now NCD X terminals to replace the Envizex/Entria range. The HP X terminal range (Entria, Envizex) is usable with a Linux server. More over, a Linux server may be a boot server for X terminals. To do it, a certain number of operations are mandatory. We suppose we have a HP-UX machine named hpux, on which is installed Enware, a Linux server, named linux and an X Terminal with MAC address 08:00:09:db:8d:1c. The gateway on the network is at IP address 192.168.1.254, and the DNS name server at 192.168.1.1. Commands to do are : _________________________________________________________________________ | | | Enware Home Directory | | hpux #cd /opt/hpxt/enware/xthome | | | | | | Creation of a tar archive of this software | | hpux #tar cvf ~ftp/en.tar * .??* | | | | | | Download of the tar archive | | linux #ftp hpux | | Connected to hpux. | | 220 hpux FTP server (Version wu-2.5.0(1) Wed Aug 25 12:50:08 EDT 1999)| | ready. | | Name (ftp:Root):ftp | | 331 Password required for ftp. | | Password:(type your mail address here) | | 230- | | [...] | | 230- | | 230 User ftp logged in. Access restrictions apply. | | ftp>lcd /tmp | | Local directory now /tmp | | ftp>get en.tar | | 200 PORT command successful. | | 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for en.tar (57638340 bytes). | | 226 Transfer complete. | | 57638340 bytes received in [...] | | ftp>quit | | [...] | | | | | | Creation of the target directory on the linux machine | | linux #mkdir -p /tftpboot | | | | | | Go there | | linux #cd /tftpboot | | | | | | untar the archive | | linux #tar xvf /tmp/en.tar | | | | | | Launch the X Font Server working on port 7100 | | linux #/usr/X11R6/bin/xfs -port 7100 | | | | | | Creation of the bootpd configuration file | | linux #cat >> /etc/bootptab << EOF | | global.prof::sm=255.255.255.0::ds=192.168.1.1::gw=192.168.1.254:: | | ht=ethernet::bf=bin/C3253A: # Adjust to your X-terminal | | tx1:hd=/tftpboot:tc=global.prof:ha=080009db8d1c:ip=192.168.1.100: | | EOF | | Install bootpd say from http://rpmfind.net | | linux #rpm -Uvh bootp-2.4.3-7.i386.rpm | | | | | | Verify the existence of such a line in /etc/inetd.conf, and restart if| | needed the server by killall -1 inetd | | linux #grep bootps /etc/inetd.conf | | bootps dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd bootpd | | | | | | Now enkoy your X terminal by booting it | |_________________________________________________________________________| For a more detailed description, as well as the software related to that operation, consult also the page http://www.cb3rob.net/~sven/xterm. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.2.6. The printing product range 3.2.6.1. General points Printers may be connected directly to a machine through either a parallel port (generally), or a serial port, or even (more recently) through a USB port. They may also be directly wired to the network, for a global access; this is done thanks to a card put in a slot of the printer, or through the connexion of the parallel port of the printer to a sharing network box. HP provides such boxes, called JetDirect, which allow thus to share personnal printers on the network, directly, without going through a machine. They exist for various network topologies (10 BT, 10/100 BT, Localtalk, 10B2) and offer the ability to access to the printer directly from machine which like Linux support the LPD protocol, by using a remote printer in the /etc/printcap file. The name of the queue to use is then raw. An example of /etc/printcap file allowing to access to a printer, equiped with such a box or card, named lj4000 on the network is given below : _________________________________________________________________________ | | | # REMOTE POSTSCRIPT 1200x1200 a4 {} PostScript Default {} | | | | lj4000::sd=/var/spool/lpd/lj4000::rm=lj4000::rp=raw::if=/var/spool/lpd/| | lj4000/filter::mx#0::sh: | |_________________________________________________________________________| The configuration access to the box is done either through the WebJetAdminHP WebJetAdmin tool provided also under Linux now, or by the telnet command. The default address of these products is 192.0.0.192. To connect to them initially, you just have to add an IP alias on your network interface, typically by : ____________________________ | | | #ifconfig eth0:0 192.0.0.1| |____________________________| and a route to that network (if not automatically created) typically by : ___________________________ | | | #route add -net 192.0.0.0| |___________________________| The access to the equipment is thus done simply by : _____________________ | | | #telnet 192.0.0.192| |_____________________| Please pay attention to have only one such equipment on the network, at the same time, or you'll have duplicate IP addresses, which always causes problems. Note that HP manageable network equipments also use the same default address. The reading of the IP_Alias_mini_HOWTO may be useful if you don't understand the previous paragraph :-). It is of course possible to access through the network to an HP printer attached and declared directly on a Linux machine, thanks to the lpd service for the other Unix clients, through SaMBa for the clients of Microsoft systems (Win9x ou WinNTx) or through NetAtalk for the MacIntosh clients. At last, SaMBa offers a tool, smbclient, which allows to print from a Unix/ Linux machine to a printer wired directly on a Microsoft based PC, without any need to use a JetDirect system. All the details useful to realize this operation are described in the example file of smbprint provided with the SaMBa package and on the page http://www.medasys-digital-systems.fr/linux/samba- truc.html. Communication between a Linux machine and a printer needs also, outside a network dialog, a discussion with an exchange language between the two elements. There are a lot of languages of that sort, such as PCL, Postscript or HPGL. To be able to print correctly, the tool providing the datas to print has to generate code known by the printer. Filters exist which allow to easily transform an output in one given format to another one. Thus the Ghostscript software authorizes the transformation of Postscript source in a great variety of output formats, as indicated by its invocation in the 'Available devices' part : _____________________________________________________________________________ | | | #gs -h | | GNU Ghostscript 6.51 (2001-03-28) | | Copyright (C) 2001 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved. | | Usage: gs [switches] [file1.ps file2.ps ...] | | Most frequently used switches: (you can use # in place of =) | | -dNOPAUSE no pause after page | -q `quiet', fewer | | messages | | -gx page size in pixels | -r pixels/inch | | resolution | | -sDEVICE= select device | -dBATCH exit after last file | | -sOutputFile= select output file: - for stdout, |command for pipe, | | embed %d or %ld for page # | | Input formats: PostScript PostScriptLevel1 PostScriptLevel2 PDF | | Available devices: | | x11 bbox x11alpha x11cmyk x11gray2 x11gray4 x11mono bmpmono bmpgray | | bmpsep1 bmpsep8 bmp16 bmp256 bmp16m bmp32b deskjet djet500 laserjet | | ljetplus ljet2p ljet3 ljet3d ljet4 ljet4d lj5mono lj5gray cdeskjet | | cdjcolor cdjmono cdj550 pj pjxl pjxl300 uniprint omni bj10e bj200 bjc600| | bjc800 faxg3 faxg32d faxg4 pcxmono pcxgray pcx16 pcx256 pcx24b pcxcmyk | | pbm pbmraw pgm pgmraw pgnm pgnmraw pnm pnmraw ppm ppmraw pkm pkmraw pksm| | pksmraw tiffcrle tiffg3 tiffg32d tiffg4 tifflzw tiffpack tiff12nc | | tiff24nc psmono psgray psrgb bit bitrgb bitcmyk pngmono pnggray png16 | | png256 png16m jpeg jpeggray pdfwrite pswrite epswrite pxlmono pxlcolor | | dmprt cdj880 ap3250 appledmp atx23 atx24 atx38 bmpa16 bmpa16m bmpa256 | | bmpa32b bmpamono bmpasep1 bmpasep8 ccr cdj1600 cdj500 cdj670 cdj850 | | cdj890 cdj970 cfax cgm24 cgm8 cgmmono cljet5pr coslw2p coslwxl cp50 | | declj250 dfaxlow dfaxhigh djet500c dl2100 dnj650c eps9high eps9mid epson| | epsonc escp fs600 hl1250 hl7x0 ibmpro imagen inferno iwhi iwlo iwlq | | jetp3852 la50 la70 la75 la75plus lbp8 lj250 lj3100sw lj4dith ln03 lp2563| | lp8000 lq850 lxm5700m m8510 mgr4 mgr8 mgrgray2 mgrgray4 mgrgray8 mgrmono| | miff24 necp6 oce9050 oki182 okiibm paintjet photoex pjetxl plan9bm | | sgirgb | | r4081 sj48 st800 stcolor sunhmono t4693d2 t4693d4 t4693d8 tek4696 xes | | x11cmyk2 x11cmyk4 x11cmyk8 x11rg16x x11rg32x ljet4pjl lj4dithp dj505j | | picty180 pr201 pr150 pr1000 pr1000_4 jj100 bj10v bj10vh mag16 mag256 | | mj700v2c mj500c mj6000c mj8000c fmpr fmlbp ml600 lbp310 lbp320 lips2p | | bjc880j lips4 lips4v escpage lp2000 npdl md50Mono md50Eco md1xMono hpijs| | DJ630 DJ6xx DJ6xxP DJ8xx DJ9xx DJ9xxVIP AP21xx hpdj md2k md5k stp | | lxm3200 | | lx5000 lex7000 lex5700 lex3200 lex2050 gdi epl5800 epl2050 epl2050p | | alc8500 alc2000 cljet5 cljet5c nullpage | | Search path: | | . : /usr/share/ghostscript/6.51/lib : /usr/share/ghostscript/6.51/vflib | | : | | /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts : /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript : | | /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 : /usr/share/fonts/default/amspsfnt/pfb :| | /usr/share/fonts/default/cmpsfont/pfb | | For more information, see /usr/share/doc/ghostscript-6.51/Use.htm. | | Report bugs to bug-gs@ghostscript.com, using the form in Bug-form.htm. | |_____________________________________________________________________________| This represents only the output formats compiled in the program. Other are also available. You may find a complete list of all the printers known by this software at http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html. A ghostscript driver for supporting pcl3 is also available at http://home.t- online.de/home/Martin.Lottermoser/pcl3.html. A list of HP printers supported may be found on the following pages : http:// www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi?make=HP and http://hp.sourceforge.net/. HP has published in April 2001 improved drivers to support inkjet printers. Cf: http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.2.6.2. Control codes Ink or laser printers may be controled through control codes. The following table gives some of them : Table 3-17. Printer Control codes Code Function ESC&l1H Tray 2 ESC&l2H Manual tray, sheet ESC&l3H Manual tray, envelope ESC&l4H Tray 1 ESC&l5H Tray 3 ESC&l7H Automatic selection ESC&l0O Portrait ESC&l1O Landscape ESC&l5A A4 ESC(8U HP Roman 8 ESC(10U IBM PC-8 (CP437) ESC(12U IBM PC-850 (CP850) Other control codes for PCL3 language are given on HP's Web site for deskjet and laserjet. HP printers are of two kind of technologies : inkjet or laserjet which are detailed below. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.2.6.2.1. Inkjet printers range (DeskJet) Inkjet HP printers use either an own language for page description, or the PPA protocol, or also the Postscript or PCL language. The reference site for InkJet printer is http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net For PPA printers, consult also http://sourceforge.net/projects/pnm2ppa Note that most inkjet printers are limited to a 600x600 resolution when used from Unix/Linux. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.2.6.2.2. The InkJet range LaserJet HP printers use PCL or Postscript page description language. The reference site for LaserJet printer is http://hp.sourceforge.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.2.7. Digital imaging product range 3.2.7.1. The scanners range (ScanJet) The main tool available in Linux environment to manage scanners is SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy). This software provides in particular a driver for HP scanner management: hpbackend. The following table provides all information on the support for this hardware by Linux. Table 3-18. Scanners and Linux ____________________________________________________________________________ |Reference______|Scanner_________|Interface_______|Linux_support______|Tested| |C9195A |ScanJet Plus |HP Parallel |SANE and driver |No | |_______________|________________|Interface_Card__|___________________|______| |C1750A_________|ScanJet_IIc_____|SCSI____________|SANE_______________|No____| |C2500A, C2507A,|ScanJet IICX |SCSI |SANE |No | |C2508A,_C2509A_|________________|________________|___________________|______| |C1790A, C1797A,|ScanJet IIP |SCSI |SANE |No | |C1798A,_C1799A_|________________|________________|___________________|______| |C2520A, C2527A,|ScanJet 3C |SCSI |SANE |No | |C2528A,_C2529A_|________________|________________|___________________|______| |C2570A_________|ScanJet_3P______|SCSI____________|SANE_______________|No____| |C2520B, C2527B,| | | | | |C2527D, C2528B,|ScanJet 4C |SCSI |SANE |No | |C2529B_________|________________|________________|___________________|______| |C1130B_________|ScanJet_4P______|SCSI____________|SANE_______________|No____| |C5110A, C5116A,|ScanJet 5P |SCSI |SANE |No | |C5117A,_C5119A_|________________|________________|___________________|______| |C5160A,_C5167A_|ScanJet_5S______|???_____________|???________________|No____| | _____________|ScanJet_2100C___|driver_USB______|???________________|No____| |C8500A_________|ScanJet_2200C___|Parallel_Port___|???________________|No____| |C7167A_________|ScanJet_3200C___|Parallel_Port___|???________________|No____| |C7680A_________|ScanJet_3300C___|USB_____________|SANE_and_driver_USB|No____| | | |Parallel_Port or|SANE and driver | | |C7727A |ScanJet 3400C |USB |PPSCSI or driver |No | |_______________|________________|________________|USB________________|______| |C6290A, C6292A,|ScanJet 4100C, |USB |SANE and driver_USB|No | |C6293A,_C7297A_|Cse,_Cxi________|________________|___________________|______| |C7177A_________|ScanJet_4200C___|USB_____________|SANE_and_driver_USB|No____| | | |Parallel_Port or|SANE and driver | | |C7737A |ScanJet 4300C |USB |PPSCSI or driver |No | |_______________|________________|________________|USB________________|______| |C9877A,_C9887A_|ScanJet_4400C___|???_____________|???________________|No____| |C5190A, C5192A,|ScanJet 5100C, |Parallel_Port |SANE and driver |No | |C5193A,_C5197A_|Cse,_Cxi________|________________|PPSCSI_____________|______| |C5190A, C7192A,| |Parallel_Port or|SANE and driver | | |C7193A |ScanJet 5200C |USB |PPSCSI or driver |Yes | |_______________|________________|________________|USB________________|______| | |ScanJet 5300C, |Parallel_Port or|SANE and driver | | |C7697A, C8477A |5370C |USB |PPSCSI or driver |No | |_______________|________________|________________|USB_(driver_hp5300)|______| |C8517A, C9857A,|ScanJet 5400C |??? |??? |Yes | |C9867A_________|________________|________________|___________________|______| |C6260A, C6266A,|ScanJet 6100C |SCSI |SANE |No | |C6267A,_C6269A_|________________|________________|___________________|______| |C6270A, C6272A,| | | | | |C6273A, C6274A,|ScanJet 6200C, |SCSI or USB |SANE or driver_USB |Yes | |C6275A, C7277A,|Cse, Cxi, 6250C | | | | |C6278A_________|________________|________________|___________________|______| |C7677A, C7678A,|ScanJet 6300C, | | | | |C7679A |Cse, Cxi, 6350C,|SCSI or USB |SANE or driver_USB |Yes | |_______________|6390C___________|________________|___________________|______| |C7717A, C7718A,|ScanJet 7400C |??? |??? |Yes | |C7719A_________|________________|________________|___________________|______| |C5100A |PhotoSmart |SCSI |SANE |Yes | |_______________|PhotoScanner____|________________|___________________|______| A FAQ dedicated to HP scanners support under Linux with SANE is available at the address : http://www.kirchgessner.net/sanehpfaq.html Some usefull adresses for USB scanners should be consulted : http:// www.buzzard.org.uk/jonathan/scanners-usb.html and http://www.qbik.ch/usb/ devices/search_res.php3?pattern=hp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.2.7.2. Digital photo cameras To use these peripherals, you have to compile SCSI support with your kernel, and turn on mass storage device in USB support. Then mount the /dev/sdxx device as usual. The following table provides all information on the support for this hardware by Linux. Table 3-19. Cameras and Linux ________________________________________________________ |Reference|Camera________|Interface_|Linux_support|Tested| |C8890A___|PhotoSmart_215|driver_USB|???__________|No____| |C8452A___|PhotoSmart_315|driver_USB|gPhoto_______|Yes___| |C8908A___|PhotoSmart_612|driver_USB|???__________|No____| |C6324A___|PhotoSmart_618|driver_USB|gPhoto_______|Yes___| |C8913A___|PhotoSmart_715|driver_USB|???__________|No____| |C6326A___|PhotoSmart_912|driver_USB|gPhoto_______|Yes___| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.2.7.3. The Digital Sender This product is a scanner, able to send the result of the digitalisation through e-mail, by sending the digitalised document as an attachement in PDF format. It may so well be used with a Linux (or other) mail server (sendmail, postfix, ...), as well as with clients reading their messages under Linux, providing they have a tool to display PDF file such as Acrobat_Reader or xpdf. The Digital Sender can also send images as black and white or colour TIFF files. The black and white images work fine, however, there is a problem with the coloured TIFF files. These are sent in an obsolete format which is not supported by libtiff, which is the basis of support for the TIFF format for nearly all Linux software. This means that you cannot directly open colour TIFF images created by the Digital Sender using Linux software (e.g. The GIMP, ImageMagick). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.2.7.4. The CapShare THere is an application for the Window Maker window manager to manage the CapShare. More information at http://www.netjunki.org/projects/index.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.2.8. All-in-one range (OfficeJet) These products gather many functions : printing (all), scanning (all), copying (all), and faxing (some). More information from their dedicated web site : http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/ suplist.shtml ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.2.9. The Storage products range 3.2.9.1. Tape based products Most HP SCSI tape drives (DAT 1, 2, 3, 4, DLT, LTO) work with Linux. the driver file to use is /dev/st0 for the first drive, /dev/st1, for the second... More information may be found on the certification site http:// www.linuxtapecert.org/ HP provides the tapeware software with its drives, including a Linux version. Colorado Trakker 250 and 350 are supported with ftape (>= 4.02) T1000 should also work correctly. Colorado 5GB are supported with the paride driver. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.2.9.1.1. HP libraries Tools to manage such drives may be found on http://mtx.sourceforge.net/ or http://www.arkeia.com/ or http://www.strusel007.de/linux/changer.html. I had the chance to test models 6x24, 418, 718, 818 with arkeia without problem. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.2.9.2. HP SureStore Virtual Array These systems are supported in a mixed environment Windows NT/2K, HP-UX 11.0 and Linux. They are connected through Fibre Channel controlers to the SAN. Among all FC cards supported on Linux, HP supoprts those provided by Emulex and QLogic. HP sells a Linux version of the management software for these arrays. Supported models are VA7100 (A6183A), VA7400. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.2.9.3. HP XP Storage Systems Here are the configurations supported by HP for these Storage Systems: _____________________________________________________________________________ | | | Redhat 6.0/6.1 | | Qlogic QLA2100F or QLA2200F with driver V2.23 | | Private Loop or Direct Fibre Attach | | No boot support | | XP256 has to have firmware >= 44.14.00 Mode 00 | | For direct attach XP512/48 has to have firmware >= 11.22.00 Mode 00 | | For attachment to a switch XP512/48 has to have firmware >= 12.19.00 | | | | Redhat 6.2 | | Emulex LP8000 with driver V4.10g | | Private Loop or Direct Fibre Attach | | No boot support | | For attachment to a switch use Brocade 2400/2800 with firmware >= V2.1.9f) | | XP512/48 has to have firmware >= 12.19.00 Mode 00 | |_____________________________________________________________________________| Khalid Aziz reports that there may be a problem with XP512 support of Linux due to a hole in LUN numbers. If the LUNs were numbered continuously, you would see all LUNs. Some folks in HP have written patches for this. Essentially all that is needed is to add an entry in device_list[] in scsi_scan.c for the XP512 and set the flag BLIST_SPARSELUN. The entry would look something like: ________________________________________ | | | { "HP", "XP512", "*", BLIST_SPARSELUN}| |________________________________________| The first field is the vendor name as reported by XP512 and second field is the model name as reported by XP512. These two need to match what XP512 returns in Inquiry command, exactly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.3. HP software and free software This section presents rapidly some HP applications which can be used under Linux. These are either commercial applications or freeware applications. It proposes also links to free software available for other operating systems (HP-UX, MPE/IX). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.3.1. HP softwares under Linux FireHunter This commercial software targetted to the ISP manages services levels and is available for RedHat version 5.2 distributions. http:// www.firehunter.com. HP Eloquence This commercial software is an IDE for management applications for small business firms and is available under Linux since 1997. A lot of distributions are supported by a third party firm to which HP has given the support. Complementary information exist on the site http://www.hp- eloquence.com. HP WebJetAdmin This freeware allows to manage HP network printers through the installation of a service on a Linux server, and is accessible from any browser running on any client machine. HP has announced the availability of this product the fisrt time in 5.1 version in February 1999. Then were released version 5.6 in December 1999, 6.0 version in June 2000, 6.1 version in August 2000, 6.5 version in October 2001. You may download the latest version at ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/networking/software/ hpwebjet_linux.selfx. All information on this product are available from the addresses : http://www.hp.com/go/webjetadmin and http://www.hp.com/ pond/wja/live/manual/html/wjacomp_linux.html. The 5.6 version in RPM format is also available at http://www.HyPer- Linux.org/HP-HOWTO/mirror/Software/hpwebjet-5.6-1.i386.rpm. HP WebQoS This commercial software allows to manage Internet Quality of Service by stabilizing performances during high loads, by optimizing used resources, and by managing priorities at applications and users levels. HP has announced the availability of this product during summer 1999. Complementary information exist on the site http://www.hp.com/go/webqos. HP OpenView This commercial software is a complete network management platform. An NNM (Network Node Manager) has been announced, as well as ITO. NNM and ITO agents are currently available for Linux. An Omniback client is available for Redhat 5.2 distributions (Cf http://www.hp.com/storage/ event/openview_hl.html). Precision from F. Lorrain: The Omniback II (A.03.50) client run without problem under debian potato (2.2r3) and Mandrake 7.2. But on debian, you need the libnns1-compat. HP OpenMail A version of this commercial mail and work group management tool is available since the first of september, 1999 under Linux. Till_November the_13th,_2001, the software has been taken over by Samsung SDS. Informations concerning it are available on the page : http:// www.openmail.com. HP E-Speak E-Speak, the open software platform for creating, composing, mediating, managing, and accessing Internet-based e-services. E-speak allows a resource (computing device, application, or data content) to be virtualized and re-deployed as an Internet-based e-service. All information concerning it are available on the page : http://www.e- speak.hp.com/. HP MC Service Guard This commercial software allows to manage a high availability cluster of applications. HP has announced the availability of this product for the 15th of November 2001. Complementary information exist on the site http:/ /www.unixsolutions.hp.com/products/ha/prod/ar/mcsg.html. Reference : T1521A. Plug-in Scheduler policies for Linux This patch enables you to write and use loadable kernel modules to change your Linux machine's scheduler policies without rebooting. It's available at http://resourcemanagement.unixsolutions.hp.com/WaRM/schedpolicy.html. PRM for Linux This commercial tool allows you to monitor CPU ressources on your machine by partitioning it. http://resourcemanagement.unixsolutions.hp.com/WaRM/ prm_linux/index.html. HP TopTools Agent for Linux This freeware is a DMI agent increasing the ease of management of HP Machines under Linux. Downlaodable from http://hp-linux.org/toptools and http://www.hp.com/toptools/download/server_agents.html. dummynet This free software is FTP server perf measurement tool. Downloadable at ftp://ftp.cup.hp.com/dist/networking/tools/dummynet/. netperf This free software is a perf measurement tool for benchmarks. Downlaodable from ftp://ftp.cup.hp.com/dist/networking/benchmarks/ netperf. hp-lx (aka Trusted Linux aka Secure Linux) This commercial software is a modified version of a RedHat distribution, containing kernel patches and daemons (GPL), as well as a set of management commands (commercial) allowing you to create jail compartments to execute applications, running so in an absolute secure environment. The software also controls file access, inter-process and network communications, ... More information on http://www.hp.com/security/ products/linux/. Chai Server This free software is an embedded Web-based application server. More information on https://devnet.hp.com/projects/csopen/. Jupiter/Kelvin Kelvin is an application programming interface (API) project dedicated for the interactive visualization of large geometric models. http:// www.gris.uni-tuebingen.de/~bartz/kelvin/. Service Control Manager This commercial software is a secure single-point of adminstration for both Linux and HP-UX multi-system environments. http://www.hp.com/ products1/linux/software/scm.html. HP AS (Bluestone) This commercial software is a service-oriented application server. http:/ /www.bluestone.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.3.2. Third party softwares linked to HP for Linux GNUPro HP and Cygnus_Solutions have announced the 8th of March, 1999 a partnership to provide the GNUPro tools on all the HP machines, including Linux. Arkeia Arkeia is a network backup solution supporting perfectly all HP storage peripherals (autoloader, libraries, ...) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.3.3. Free softwares under HP-UX Numerous free software for HP-UX are available at http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/. HP hosts also a certain number of free software tools for HP-UX at http:// h21007.www2.hp.com/dspp/tech/tech_TechTypeListingPage_IDX/1,1704,10312,00.html Hp proposes also tools to help porting Linux applications to HP-UX. Cf: http:// devresource.hp.com/LPK/ and http://devresource.hp.com/STKL/index.html. An open source version of hpterm may be found on http://sourceforge.net/ projects/hpterm/. KDE_2.1 s also available for HP-UX. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.3.4. Free softwares under MPE/IX Numerous free software for MPE/IX are available at http://jazz.external.hp.com/ src An HP700/92 terminal emulator is available at http://www.aics-research.com/ qcterm/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.4. Support of HP solutions under Linux HP proposes since May 1999 a worldwide_support_offer on Linux. This offer includes up to the possibility to answer 24x7, in a delay of 2 hours after taking the call. The reference of this product is : HP LNXIA32A HP proposes since 2001 a "Mission Critical support" contract for his Linux customers. HP has also online ressources to help people using Linux with its products : Online Linux incidents http://hp3.m0.net/m/s.asp?H1409133998X725229 Linux training courses http://hp3.m0.net/m/s.asp?H1409133998X725230 Linux discussion Forum http://hp3.m0.net/m/s.asp?H1409133998X725231 Third party firms also propose Linux and free software support on HP platforms : Medasys Contact : Sylvain Bergé Atrid Contact : Bruno Deschandelliers Alcove Contact : Lucien Petit Andago Contact : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.5. Training on HP Linux solutions HP proposes since June 1999 a worldwide training offer on Linux. It's detailed on the page http://education.hp.com/curr-linux.htm. The detail of all the training courses for France is available at : http://www.france.hp.com/ formation/f_linux_00.html. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.6. HP as an Open Source Software user and contributor HP doesn't make a lot of noise in the free software world, even if it is an actor and also a user for its own IT infrastructure. For example, all the incoming mail in HP goes through PostFix servers ________________________________________________________________ | | | #dig hp.com -t mx | grep MX | | ;; hp.com, type = MX, class = IN | | hp.com. 21m28s IN MX 50 cossmtp.hp.com. | | hp.com. 21m28s IN MX 50 palsmtp.hp.com. | | hp.com. 21m28s IN MX 20 postal.agilent.com.| | hp.com. 21m28s IN MX 10 envelope.hp.com. | | hp.com. 21m28s IN MX 10 letter.hp.com. | | hp.com. 21m28s IN MX 20 stamp.agilent.com. | | hp.com. 21m28s IN MX 30 cossmtpx.hp.com. | | hp.com. 21m28s IN MX 50 atlsmtp.hp.com. | | #telnet envelope.hp.com 25 | | Trying 192.151.10.4... | | Connected to envelope.hp.com. | | Escape character is '^]'. | | 220 envelope.hp.com ESMTP Postfix | | QUIT | | 221 Bye | | Connection closed by foreign host. | | #telnet letter.hp.com 25 | | Trying 192.151.10.3... | | Connected to letter.hp.com. | | Escape character is '^]'. | | 220 letter.hp.com ESMTP Postfix | | QUIT | | 221 Bye | | Connection closed by foreign host. | | #telnet postal.agilent.com 25 | | Trying 192.6.9.3... | | Connected to postal.agilent.com. | | Escape character is '^]'. | | 220 postal.agilent.com ESMTP Postfix | | QUIT | | 221 Bye | | Connection closed by foreign host. | |________________________________________________________________| Identically, for its institutional Web server, HP uses Apache as more than 15 millions of other sites. _________________________________________________ | | | #wget -S http://www.hp.com/ | | --15:09:45-- http://www.hp.com:80/ | | => `index.html.1' | | Connecting to www.hp.com:80... connected! | | HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK | | 2 Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 13:12:25 GMT | | 3 Server: Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) mod_fastcgi/2.2.2| | [...] | |_________________________________________________| Agilent (old-HP branch) uses also the free software Perl for CAD as related at http://perl.oreilly.com/news/agilent_0300.html HP also worked on the improvement of the proxy-cache Squid , as related at http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-142.html In another domain, HP produces also documents to help convincing to the use of Open Soure Software, as this HP Labs report available on http://lib.hpl.hp.com/ techpubs/2001/HPL-2001-233.html A lot of HP people work on open source projects. They deserve a particular notice because, as in every open source project, their tenacious and constant comportment make these projects alive. Among them: David Mosberger and Stéphane Eranian Port of the Linux kernel on IA-64 http://www.linuxia64.org/. Grant Grundler, John S. Marvin and Paul Bame Major contributor of the Linux kernel port on Pa-Risc http://www.parisc- linux.org/. Jean Tourrilhes Wireless Tools for Linux http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/ Linux/Tools.html. John H. Oleinik and David Suffield Projet HP imprimante jet d'encre http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/. Dann Frazier System Imager http://www.systemimager.org. Peter Mellquist SNMP++ http://rosegarden.external.hp.com/snmp++. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 4. Solutions and Sizing This chapter proposes an help for sizing NetServers under Linux, depending on the different kind of use. You have to consider that exercise as a bit perilous. Indeed, only the reality allows to test such previsions. Nevertheless, using the experience acquired by deploying solutions in the past, we can give some useful rules. We may apply a certain number of rules valid for the sizing of classical Unix servers, considering that CISC systems (the majority in Linux environment) need 2.5 less times resources in memory than RISC systems, due to the fact that binaries used are smaller (Intel platforms are for the moment 32 bits architectures). This has also influences on disk and swap space. It's obvious you have to consider, whatever the system, bottlenecks of the solution put in place, because they will determine the weakest link in the chain. You have to look particularly at the following points : * The number and the speed of disks (the I/O rate of 10.000 rpm disks may go up to 20 MB/s, and 25 for 15.000 rpm disks), * The number and the speed of SCSI controlers (the I/O rate of Ultra2 LVD of the LC2000 - LH3/4/3000/6000 may go up to 80 MB/s, and latest B model up to 160 MB/s), * The addition of a supplementary SCSI card supported, when adding slow peripherals (DAT, DLT, CD writer ...) in order to avoid that the controler slow down in compatible mode, and that I/O performances drop significantly. You have also to be suspicious of the extensible functions of machines. Indeed, it's often better for a customer to add a new server, rather than to increase the capacities of the one in place. The first reason is a financial one, on one side, because the costs of add-ons on an already old system may be near those of a new system, whose prices are becoming cheaper and cheaper. And the same for maintenance. On the other hand, technically, it could be more interesting to benefit from the latest technologies to obtain a machine more equilibrate, powerful and to reuse the old one for secondary tasks (secondary DNS, ...) or to split processes from the other one. For example, when Ultra2 LVD was introduced, it was more interesting to buy a new server to benefit from the 80 MB/s SCSI bus speed, rather than to update a server which had 40 MB/s Ultra Wide SCSI. This implies that it's interesting to size correctly the server, from the begining, for the whole forseeable period of life of its use (typically 3 years nowadays). In the same kind of ideas, you have to examine closely the choice between a bi- processors and two mono-processors machines. 2 different systems imply 2 disk controlers, 2 disks set, 2 separate RAM busses thus better performances, but more administration. On the other hand, a unique system renders it easier, allows for a quicker communication between processors, which could be necessary for certain applications, but makes the environment more fragile (more downtime in case of an hardware problem). In fact, there are more losses intrinsically on a multi-processor model, in communications at the system level. This question should mainly be considered for the addition of a processor (necesseraly obsolete) on a machine a posteriori, rather than to add a new server. On memory aspects, Linux can manage today up to 64 GB in stable kernels. Linux takes the maximum from the memory you give to it, mainly by the constitution of a cache disk which improves greatly system performances. You may thus oversize the quantity of RAM installed, because it's preferable to a situation where the server would be forced to swap (which drop performances dramatically). The minimum RAM size provided on the NetServers (128 ou 256 MB) matches perfectly a normal use of a system, and doesn't need any particular addition. You have to take in account that there is no graphical environment used on production servers. Concerning the swap, under Linux, it comes in addition to the RAM to give the complete virtual memory available for the server. As a base rule, it's recommanded to give the same amount of swap space as the amount of RAM, to allow the system to put on disk nearly all the running processes in case of need. But the rule which exists for System V Unix (such as HP-UX) consisting of reserving twice the amount of RAM for swap isn't useful under Linux. You may note that Linux may swap certain inactive processes to free the maximum RAM possible. So having a system whose swap is partially used isn't necesseraly a proof of lack of memory, nor lack of performances. You'll find below recommandations depending of the type of use made by the HP NetServer under Linux. It's possible to cumulate several functions on the same server. You'll take care to add at least in that case the resources needed to give the services. Some generic rules have to be considered : * We consider that the number of simultaneous users is the same as half the whole number of users on the server. * The minimal RAM size needed for a usable Linux server is 32 MB, which is less than the minimum amount of RAM available on the NetServers (128 MB). In case you use X-Window with KDE or Gnome on this machine, you need to have 64 MB in supplement, thus 96 MB as a minimum. * The minimal disk size needed for a usable Linux server is 2 GB, which is less than the minimum amount of disk available on the NetServers (9 GB). * In case of use of Raid 1, you have to double the amount of disk space useful to obtain the disk space needed. In case of use of Raid 5, you need to add 1 disk to obtain the disk space needed (up to 8 disks). * Except in particular cases (computing server), the amount of swap is the same as the amount of RAM. * The minimal processor needed for a usable Linux server is a Pentium 133, which is less than the minimum processor available on the NetServers (Pentium III 933). * Each X-Window user excuting a client on the server uses in average 2 MB. * It may be useful to add network cards in this type of machine to smooth the traffic, depending on the number of clients. Using the bonding option provided by the Linux kernel may also be very useful. You may also consult the linux performance tuning document provided by Adrian Likins ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.1. Linux as file and print server 4.1.1. Linux as file server The sharing service uses 2 MB of RAM, and 2 more MB per share. In case of a unique share (users space for example), it leads to a 2 MB consumption per user. In the proposed case, we estimate that each user has 100 MB of disk space on the server, with an evolution to 200 MB 3 years later. Processor resources used are relativeley small, an entry level model will be sufficient from that point of view. We will priviledge the I/O speed with Ultra 3 LVD SCSI at 160 MB/s, if the budget allows it, and 15.000 RPM disks. Table 4-1. Sizing of a file server _____________________________________________________ |Simultaneous_users|RAM_size|Disk_size|Machine_example| |1_-_100___________|312_MB__|27_GB____|E800___________| |100_-_500_________|1_GB____|117_GB___|LC2000_________| |500_-_1000________|2_GB____|216_GB___|LH3000_________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.1.2. Linux as print server The sharing service uses 2 MB of RAM, and 2 more MB per printer shared. In case of a unique share (One printer per user typically), it leads to a 2 MB consumption per user. In the proposed case, we estimate that each user prints simultaneously files of 5 MB in average, thus we need to have that space available on the server. Processor resources used are relativeley small, an entry level model will be sufficient from that point of view. Table 4-2. Sizing of a print server _____________________________________________________ |Simultaneous_users|RAM_size|Disk_size|Machine_example| |1_-_100___________|312_MB__|9_GB_____|E800___________| |100_-_500_________|1_GB____|9_GB_____|E800___________| |500_-_1000________|2_GB____|9_GB_____|LC2000_________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.2. Internet/Intranet Linux server 4.2.1. Web Server The Web service uses 2.5 MB of RAM, in static mode (simple HTML pages) and 5 MB of RAM in dynamic mode (HTML pages generated from perl, PHP, ...) per user. The disk space needed is function of the nature of the server, knowing that most of the consumption comes from images. Processor resources used are important, thus it could be useful to consider the increase in frequency and the addition of processors, because this type of traffic could be quite well done in parallel. With Apache 2.0 and the support of threads, it will become even more obvious. We will priviledge also the I/O speed with Ultra 2 LVD SCSI at 80 MB/s, if the budget allows it, and 10.000 RPM disks. Table 4-3. Sizing of a static Web server _____________________________________________________________ |Simultaneous_users|RAM_size|Disk_size|Machine_example________| |1_-_100___________|256_MB__|9_GB_____|E800___________________| |100_-_500_________|1_GB____|9_GB_____|LC2000_Bi-processor____| |500_-_1000________|2_GB____|9_GB_____|LH6000_Quadri-processor| Table 4-4. Sizing of a dynamic Web server _____________________________________________________________ |Simultaneous_users|RAM_size|Disk_size|Machine_example________| |1_-_100___________|512_MB__|9_GB_____|E800___________________| |100_-_500_________|2_GB____|9_GB_____|LC2000_Bi-processor____| |500_-_1000________|4_GB____|18_GB____|LH6000_Quadri-processor| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.2.2. Mail Server Generally, this machine is used as both SMTP (sending and reception of messages) and POP/IMAP server (keeper of messages and manager of client accesses). The SMTP Mail service uses 2 MB of RAM per user. The POP/IMAP Mail service uses 2 MB of RAM per user. The disk space needed becomes more and more important as long as attachments (images, various documents) take the greatest place in exchanges via e-mail. We consider in that case that an average mail box size is 50 MB. Processor resources used are important, thus it could be useful to consider the increase in frequency and the addition of processors, because this type of traffic could be quite well done in parallel. Table 4-5. Sizing of an e-mail server _____________________________________________________________ |Simultaneous_users|RAM_size|Disk_size|Machine_example________| |1_-_100___________|400_MB__|9_GB_____|E800___________________| |100_-_500_________|2_GB____|27_GB____|LC2000_Bi-processor____| |500_-_1000________|4_GB____|54_GB____|LH6000_Quadri-processor| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.2.3. Firewall/Proxy/Web-Cache server Generally, this machine is both a Firewall server, a proxy (in both directions) and a cache for the Web because all requests go through it. The Firewall service uses 1 MB of RAM. The Proxy service uses 0.3 MB per incoming relay. The Web cache service uses 0.5 MB per user. The disk space needed is function of the parameters of the cache Web server. In that case, we consider 20 MB per user. Processor resources used are important, due to the analysis of IP packets. Thus it could be useful to consider the increase in frequency. Table 4-6. Sizing of a Firewall/Proxy/Web-Cache server _____________________________________________________ |Simultaneous_users|RAM_size|Disk_size|Machine_example| |1_-_100___________|128_MB__|9_GB_____|E800___________| |100_-_500_________|512_MB__|18_GB____|E800___________| |500_-_1000________|1_GB____|27_GB____|E800___________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.2.4. Directory server Generally, this machine use a software like OpenLDAP to fulfill its goals. The LDAP service uses 1 MB of RAM and 10 kB of RAM per user. The disk space needed is of the same kind, so 10 kB per user. Processor resources used are moderated. Table 4-7. Sizing of a LDAP server _____________________________________________________ |Simultaneous_users|RAM_size|Disk_size|Machine_example| |1_-_100___________|64_MB___|9_GB_____|E800___________| |100_-_500_________|64_MB___|9_GB_____|E800___________| |500_-_1000________|128_MB__|9_GB_____|E800___________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.3. Linux as computing server Generally, this machine is extremely stressed, mainly on the processor and RAM aspects. Sometimes this is combined with intensive I/O needs. We thus equip such a machine with high-end processors (nowadays Pentium III Xeon) with the greatest level 2 cache possible (nowadays 2 MB). In RAM, we would tend to reach the maximum possible, thus 4 GB. For this type of server, we should adapt the swap such as it covers all the needs in memory required by the computing codes to execute. There is often no specific constraint on network performances, except in case of a computing cluster, in which case we may consider to equip the machines with 100 Mb/s cards with a switch between them, even with Myrinet, Dolphin or Gigabit products. Typically, a LP1000 2*PIII 1.4GHz 1 GB/2*9GB is the target of this type of server. The choice is extremely variable depending on the nature of the computation to do. We should underline that there are processors, such as PA-Risc, much more performant in floating point computation than today Intel processors (up to 6 times). The new IA-64 Itanium family seems also to bring a better compromise for price/performances for that environment. This is by the way not the only approach as shown by the i-cluster project. Cf: http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2001/HPL-2001-206.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.4. Linux as an office server This kind of server is for the moment rare in the free software world. It's more frequent in Microsoft world, by association with Metaframe solutions of Citrix. An office server needs 50 MB of RAM per user. Intrinsically, this machine has no requirements in term of disk, if it's not at the same time a file server. Processor resources used are important, thus it could be useful to consider the increase in frequency and the addition of processors, because this type of traffic could be quite well done in parallel. Table 4-8. Sizing of an office server _____________________________________________________________ |Simultaneous_users|RAM_size|Disk_size|Machine_example________| |1_-_10____________|512_MB__|9_GB_____|E800___________________| |10_-_50___________|2_GB____|9_GB_____|LC2000_Bi-processor____| |50_-_100__________|4_GB____|18_GB____|LH6000_Quadri-processor| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 5. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 5.1. "What's_new_in_kernel_2.2_?" 5.2. "What's_new_in_kernel_2.4_?" 5.3. "How_to_have_more_than_1_GB_of_RAM_on_my_NetServer_?" 5.4. "How_to_have_more_than_128_MB_of_swap_on_my_NetServer_?" 5.5. "How_to_use_the_other_procesors_of_my_NetServer_?" 5.6. "Is_Linux_Y2K_compatible_?" 5.7. "How_to_increase_the_number_of_processes_managed_by_the_kernel_?" 5.8. "How_to_increase_the_number_of_loopback_devices_managed_by_the_kernel_?" 5.9. "How_to_have_files_bigger_than_2_GB_on_ext2_?" 5.1."What's new in kernel 2.2 ?" Read Wonderful_World_of_Linux_2.2 or the_same_in_french. 5.2."What's new in kernel 2.4 ?" Read Wonderful_World_of_Linux_2.4. 5.3."How to have more than 1 GB of RAM on my NetServer ?" The following information are adapted from the page of Rik van Riel. They concern 2.0.x as well as 2.2.x kernels, and 2.4.x. First of all, the IA32 Intel architecture is limited by construction in its memory management to 4 GB. Space which should be divided into virtual memory and physical memory. Which means that if you choose to recognize more RAM, the maximum size for a program decreases. But Linux can't manage more than 1 GB by default. To go above that, in fact up to 2 GB today, because Linux can't manage more memory for the moment, you need to modify 2 files provided with kernel sources and recompile it. Those 2 sources are /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386/page.h and /usr/src/linux/arch/ i386/vmlinux.lds. From 2.0.37 and 2.2.12 kernels on, the patch was integrated in the kernel and may be activated when doing a make {menu,x}config. The maximum Ram managed in the i386 version was ported to 64 GB after 2.3.23. 5.4."How to have more than 128 MB of swap on my NetServer ?" Up to the version 2.8x of the util-linux package, the mkswap command could create swap partitions only up to 128 MB maximum. You then had to create as much partitions as necessary. Till the 2.9 version, included in standard in RedHat 6.0 and following distributions, it's possible to create directly swap partitions up to 2 GB and to 8 partitions. 5.5."How to use the other procesors of my NetServer ?" Multi-processing is supported by Linux operationnaly till the 2.0 version of the kernel. For a 2.0.x kernel, you have to recompile it and set up the SMP variable in the Makefile to 1. For a 2.2.x or 2.4.x kernel, you have to set it up during the make {menu,x}config. For more details, please consult the SMP- HOWTO. 5.6."Is Linux Y2K compatible ?" Generally, Linux is Y2K compatible. For more information please consult the FAQ. 5.7."How to increase the number of processes managed by the kernel ?" For 2.2.x kernels, you need to edit the file /usr/src/linux/include/linux/ tasks.h, modify the value of the constant NR_TASKS (512 by default) and set it to a value which doesn't exceed 4092 or 4090 if APM is configured. It could be useful to set MAX_TASKS_PER_USER at the same time to an appropriate value. Then recompile the kernel as usual. 5.8."How to increase the number of loopback devices managed by the kernel ?" You need to edit the file /usr/src/linux/drivers/block/loop.c, For 2.2.x kernels, you need to modify the value of the constant MAXLOOP (8 by default). For 2.4.x kernels, you need to modify the value of the static int max_loop variable. Then recompile the kernel as usual. 5.9."How to have files bigger than 2 GB on ext2 ?" You need to have a kernel 2.4.x, glibc 2.1.3 at least and that all necessary tools have been recompiled. Look at http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 6. Customer References Here is a list of HP/Linux references: * Amazon: Mix of HP-UX and Linux solutions as related on http:// www.zdnetindia.com/techzone/linuxcentre/stories/42345.html. * Checkpoint: HP Secure OS for Linux (aka Trusted linux). * Side_Effects: Port of their software Houdini on Linux. * Nothing_Real: Port of their software Shake on Linux. * Boeing: Linux and HP clusters help Boeing R&D reduce costs as related on http://www.hp.com/products1/linux/infolibrary/boeing.html. * ViaWest: a hp/Linux ISP as related on http://www.hp.com/products1/linux/ infolibrary/viawest.html. * Israel_Aircraft_Industry: a hp/Linux performance cluster user as related on http://www.hp.com/products1/linux/infolibrary/israel.html. * SpeedEra: a hp/Linux ISP as related on http://www.hp.com/products1/linux/ infolibrary/speedera.html. * Dreamworks: The Shreck movie realised on HP netserver/Linux as related on http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2761566,00.html. * Cern: Performance cluster realised with HP netserver/Linux as related on http://hp-linux.cern.ch. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 7. References I already mentioned the documentation files, installed typically under the directory /usr/src/linux/Documentation. They are a real gold mine of useful information. The following FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) are periodically posted in the group news:news.answers and archived on FTP servers like ftp://rtfm.mit.edu : * FAQ of the group news:comp.os.linux.announce * FAQ of the group news:comp.sys.hp.hpux A lot of other Linux HOWTO contain information useful related to our subject : * Linux_SCSI_HOWTO * Linux_CD-Writing_HOWTO * Linux_Hardware_HOWTO * Linux_Distribution_HOWTO * Linux_Kernel_HOWTO * Linux_Sound_HOWTO * Linux_PCMCIA_HOWTO * Linux_SMP_HOWTO * USB_under_Linux * Linux_Laptop_Guide * Linux_on_HP_Laptops The following Usenet groups cover subjects related to HP : * news:comp.sys.hp.hardware * news:comp.sys.hp.misc You may also consult the groups mentioned in Section_2.2.2.5. On Internet, you may consult with a great benefit the following sites : Table 7-1. Web sites of HP Subject URL HP Linux Portal http://www.hp.com/go/linux HP and Linux http://www.hp-linux.org HP France Education Linux http://hpwww.ec-lyon.fr/hpeduc/ education/offre/linux/educ_linux.html HP Support http://www.hp.com/hps/support/ h_linux.htm HP HOWTO http://www.HyPer-Linux.org/HP-HOWTO/ current/index.html Linux Pa-Risc (Puffin Group) http://www.parisc-linux.org Linux Pa-Risc (ESIEE) http://mkhppa1.esiee.fr/en/ PA-RISC/Linux Boot HOWTO http://mkhppa1.esiee.fr/parisc-linux- boot/parisc-linux-boot/index.html Linux and HP Labs http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/ comp_systems.html#Linux_Technology Linux IA64 http://www.linuxia64.org Linux IA64 (HP Labs) http://dtf.external.hp.com/dtf/swdev/ 1999/08/feature1_a.html HP embedded software developer's http://devnet.hp.com network HP printer drivers http://hp.sourceforge.net/ http://bugzilla.redhat.com/ HP RedHat certification certification/cert- report.php3?mod_company=Hewlett+Packard HP Linuxcare certification http://www.linuxcare.com/labs/certs/ C1F5.epl SAP HP Netserver certification http://www.sap.com/solutions/technology/ linux/hp-hw.htm HP Utigroup http://www.hputigroup.com Table 7-2. Other fundamental sites on Linux and Open Source Software Subject URL Linux Documentation http://www.linuxdoc.org Project Linux Weekly News - http://lwn.net/1999/features/1998timeline/ Summary of 1998 Linux Weekly News - http://lwn.net/1999/features/Timeline/ Summary of 1999 Linux Weekly News - http://lwn.net/2000/features/Timeline/ Summary of 2000 IOS Counter http://www.leb.net/hzo/ioscount/index.html Comparaison MS-Windows NT http://www.linux-france.com/article/these/unix-vs-nt/unix-vs-nt.html Server 4.0 - - Unix Netcraft http://www.netcraft.com/survey/ studies L'AFUL http://www.aful.org (Association) APRIL http://www.april.org (Association) Linux Center http://www.linux-center.org Linux France http://www.linux-france.com/ Linux Journal http://www.linuxjournal.com Linux Gazette http://www.linuxgazette.com/ Linux Magazine http://www.linuxmag-france.com/ France Linux Start http://linuxstart.com/index.html Da Linux http://linuxfr.org/news/ French Page RedHat Hardware http://www.redhat.com/cgi-bin/support support Mandrake Hardware http://www.linux-mandrake.com/fr/ support for hardware.php3?F_FAMILY=all&F_MANUFACTURER=HP&F_STATUS=all&F_SEARCH=TRUE HP Mobilix : http://mobilix.org/ Linux Mobile Linmodems http://linmodems.org/ Notebook HQ : http://www.linux-notebook.org/laptops/ Linux Mobile Developers http://www.linuxmama.com/dev-server.html Servers IA-64 project leader Web http://sverre.home.cern.ch/sverre/SJ.html site at Cern IA-64 Intel http://developer.intel.com/design/itanium/index.htm Web site Medasys Linux http://www.medasys-digital-systems.fr/linux ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 8. Contributors I would like to thank especially all the people who contributed in any way to improve this HOWTO : * Pierre-Antoine Angelini * Khalid Aziz * Sarah Barclay * Tim Bell * Jeroen ten Berge * Sylvain Bergé * Nancy Blachman * Stéphane Bortzmeyer * Brendan Burns * Emmanuel Carras * Kevin Carson * Jean-Bernard Chaffardon * Khalil Chawoshi * Béatrice Cornec * Sébastien Cottalorda * Nug Csigas * Philippe Depouilly - his site : http: //www.math.u-bordeaux.fr/~depouill * Ludovic Didierlaurent * Frédéric Dubuy * Michael Dwyer * Stéphane Eranian * Mark Eve * Greg Ferguson * Laurent Frey * Bertrand Gambier * Bdale Garbee * Wilson Gardiner * Stein Roar Gjøen * Grant Grundler * Jérémie Guillaume * Yann Guillemot * Werner Heuser * Marc Hia Balié * Jesse Don Hickson III * Chris Holden * Keith Hopkins * Masanari Iida * Markus Kuhn * Bruce Kives * Fabrice Lorrain * Pascal Lemonnier * Qing Liu * Maciej Macowicz * Olivier Martinet * Mad Matt - his site : http://www.bits.bris.ac.uk/ madmatt/laptop.shtml * Lee Mayes * Craig McCluskey * David Mentré * Jacques Misselis * Oliver Neukum <520047054719-0001@t-online.de> * Andreas Nierula * Robert J. Niland * Gilles Noisette * Harry Page * Luis Pais * Alain Pascal * David Paschal * Luis Peromarta * Daryl Poe * Thomas Pornin * Karthik Prabhakar * Fons Rademakers - his site : http://hp- linux.cern.ch * Gallig Renaud * Valerie Rice * Lane Rollins * Hester van Rooyen * Eric Rueda * Klamer Schutte * Thierry Simonnet * Chuck Slivkoff * Junichi Shimoda * Tech Support * Nicolas Thomas * Dirk De Wachter * Norman Walsh * Hans Witvliet * Tony White * Yuthay Yean ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 9. Future versions This chapter gives indications on elements which should be taken in account in future versions of this document. It should be taken more as a reminder for the author, than as an engagement of what he will really do ! Version 0.95 Images path. Better management of the size of tables (PS). Place of the footer (PS). One line paragraph management. Management of the size of papers, margins and images (PS). Paragraph on TX/e-vectra management Rework the printer paragraph Info script to pass on machines and create a new entry Integrate LinuxCare certif Version 0.96 URLs verification in function of the language. Use of official addresses and paragraph on mirrors. Rework the cluster part Paragraph on APM for mobiles computer Linux as a backup server (Arkeia) Remote Assistant - Remote Control. Management Put the Argumementations in the TOC (HTML). Avoid titles in end of page (PS). Paragraph on network products Version 0.97 Detail limitations of evolution from Unix to Linux Rework the example of the vaccine :-) Rework chapter 1 (put there history and new versions) Glossary/Abbreviations ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Appendix A. 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