Re: Supported hardware
- From: Dances With Crows <danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 11:56:52 -0500
On Wed, 31 May 2006 16:43:27 GMT, Howard Bryce staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
Anybody know where to get an up to date list of hardware supported
under Linux? I have come across a few in google, but they are all so
far woefully out of date.
There isn't a static list on a webpage somewhere, because the list of
supported hardware changes and grows so quickly. If you want to know
whether a Foo-9000 is supported, you should Google://"Foo-9000 linux" .
As a general rule, all SCSI cards, wired Ethernet NICs, IDE DVD+-RWs,
IDE CD-RWs, IDE fixed disks, SCSI fixed disks, SCSI tape drives, USB
HID-compliant devices, and USB Mass Storage devices are supported. For
printers, scanners, 802.11n NICs, and "weird" hardware, you'd better
Google first to make sure you don't buy something that isn't supported.
Sound cards may be semi-problematic, though everything that's popular is
supported. Graphics cards are all supported in some way, though getting
accelerated 3D from ATi or nVidia cards requires evil binary-only kernel
modules that are Free Beer. HTH,
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