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Dyne:bolic Hardware Compatability Page

I have tested dyne:bolic 1.1.1 on the following hardware, and here's how it fared...

Note: the PCI cards that worked after modprobe may not have been auto-detected because pcimodules dumps core on my test computer :(

Computers

  • Dell Dimension L500cx

    Perfect, except for Armagetron which, on five out of 8 "identical" machines, locks the computer solid, leaving a pink pastel random-pixel flashing random image on the screen, and mplayer crashing out.

    Compaq Deskpro 5150 (150 MHz Pentium non-MMX)

    No. The system doesn't seem to boot off CDROMs.

    Compaq Deskpro 2000/5200MMX

    Perfect, except that mplayer crashes out.

    Compaq Deskpro 2000/5233MMX

    Perfect, except that mplayer crashes out.

    Gateway 2000

    1.0 & 1.1.1 are said to be OK!

    Sony Vaio

    1.0 and 1.1.1 are said to be OK!

    Dell Latitude CPx H500GT

    text mode yes, X no (see ATI Rage Mobility below)

    HP pavilion ze5400

    Yes, but limited to 800x600 (not fullscreen), can't see pen drive.

    Dell Inspiron 8600

    (w/ Radeon 9600) Yes, but limited to 800x600 and some windows don't fit on scree due to wide aspect ratio, no audo.

    Dell latitude 700mhz

    (No problem fantastic !) with ati 16...

    IBM Netfinity 3500 m10 Dual 500mhz

    (No problem fantastic !) with S3 Savage 2000 AGP Video...

    HP pavilion ze4500

    Almost Yes, but troubles with ACPI. At the boot prompt, try acpi=no

Processors

  • Intel Pentium MMX 200 & 233 MHz [Compaq Deskpro 2000/5200MMX & 5233MMX]

    Yes, but mplayer and pcimodules crash out with illegal instruction.

    Intel Pentium MMX 233 MHz [Compaq Deskpro 2000/5233MMX]

    Yes, but mplayer and pcimodules crash out with illegal instruction.

    Intel Celeron (Mendocino) 500 MHz [Dell Dimension L500cx]

    Yes, but mplayer crashes out with illegal instruction.

    AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor 400 MHz and 500 MHz

    Yes, but mplayer and pcimodules crash out with illegal instruction.

    Intel Pentium III (Coppermine)

    Yes!

    AMD XP1900+ Palamino 1600MHz

    Yes, no strangeness to report.

    AMD XP2000+ Thoroughbred *MHz

    Yes, no strangeness to report.

    AMD Athlon 64 2800+ 1800MHz

    Yes, no strangeness to report.

IDE controllers

  • Chip

    Works?

    SiS530

    Yes!

    VIA VT82C586B

    Yes!

    Intel 82371 PIIX4

    Yes!

USB controllers

  • Name

    Type

    Works?

    Intel 82801AA (Rev 02) (in Dell L500cx)

    UHCI

    Yes with usb-uhci but Nokia 5510 crashes the machine

    SiS USB 1.0 Controller

    OHCI

    Don't know - pcimodules gets illegal instruction

On-board video chips

  • Name

    Chip

    Bus

    Works?

    S3 Trio 64V2/GX

    86C785

    PCI

    Yes!

    Dell Dimension L500cx

    i810

    PCI

    All except armagetron on 5 out of 8 machines

Video cards

  • Name

    Chip number

    Bus

    Works?

    ATI Radeon 9200 SE

    RV280(?)

    PCI

    No. When X starts, It blinks and then says it cannot find the device in any video mode.

    ATI Radeon 9600 Pro

    ?

    No. As soon as it gets past "Loading initrd..." we just get a black screen

    ATI Radeon 9600 128MB

    AGP

    X Works fine here. (specific model unknown)

    ATI Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x

    ?

    AGP

    No. As soon as it switches to graphic mode, the screen goes black and then fades slowly and plasmagorically to white

    S3 Trio 3D/2X "On Board"

    86C368

    AGP

    Yes!

    S3 Trio 64V+ SPIDER BIOS

    PCI

    Yes but: 1) Image is offset 1cm to the left and has 1cm black border at bottom. 2) Splash screen tab edges have white and black guy ropes & moving the splash screen right leaves a white blob on the screen at tab left bottom.

    S3 Trio 64V+ Diamond Multimedia

    PCI

    As above. Armagetron gives black screen but doesn't crash the computer.

    S3 Trio 32

    86C732-P

    PCI

    As above.

    Tseng Labs ET6000 (BIOS V1.4)

    ET6000

    PCI

    Yes! (FB)

    Cirrus Logic (CL/Quadtel video BIOS)

    CL-GD5343-QC-F

    PCI

    Well, er.. yes, sort of. Looks like my card has dodgy VRAM.

    Matrox MGA Mystique

    MGA-1064SG-H

    PCI

    Yes! 1024x768!

    2 the MAX

    ARK1000PV

    PCI

    No. X doesn't start up.

    Trident

    TVGA9000B

    ISA-16

    No. X doesn't start up.

    NVIDIA Geforce 4 MX440 64MB

    Yes, no strangeness to report.

    NVIDIA FX5200 128MB

    Yes, no strangeness to report.

    Voodoo 3

    Yes, no strangeness to report.

    NVIDIA Geforce 5700 Ultra

    AGP

    No. When desktop loads, Monitor cannot synch. (LGP Flatron L1750S)

Ethernet cards

  • Name

    Chip

    Bus

    Works?

    3Com Etherlink III PCI 3x590 TPO

    PCI

    Yes, after modprobe 3x59x & pump

    3Com Etherlink XL PCI 3C900-COMBO

    PCI

    Yes, after modprobe 3x59x & pump

    3Com 3C905-TX

    PCI

    Yes, after modprobe 3c59x & pump

    3Com Etherlink III 3x509

    ISA-16

    Yes, after modprobe 3c509 & pump

    3Com Etherlink III 3x509-COMBO

    ISA-16

    Yes, after modprobe 3c509 & pump

    3Com Etherlink III 3x509B (PnP)

    ISA-16

    Yes, after modprobe 3c509 & pump

    3Com Etherlink III 3x509B-TX (PnP)

    ISA-16

    Yes, after modprobe 3c509 & pump

    Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX PCI Intel UTP

    Intel SB82558B

    PCI

    Yes, after modprobe eepro100 & pump

    Genius LAN

    K1306023

    ISA-16

    Not tried yet...

    Novell Inc.

    DP8390CN

    ISA-8

    Yes, after "modprobe ne io=0x300" & pump

    Realtek

    RTL8019A

    ISA-16

    They say "It is NE2000-compatible"... but I can't see it!

    SMC

    83C795QF P

    ISA-16

    Yes, after "modprobe smc-ultra" & pump

    Kingston EtheRx KNE20

    ISA-16

    Yes, after "modprobe ne" & pump

Sound cards

Note: Creative Labs Soundblasters:

The non-PnP boards need to have the jumpers set to io=0x220, irq=5, dma=1, dma16=5 and you need to say "modprobe sb" explicitly to enable them.

  • Name

    Board no.

    Bus

    Works?

    Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16

    CT2290

    ISA-16

    Yes, after modprobe sb

    Creative Labs SB 16 Value

    CT2770

    ISA-16

    Yes, after modprobe sb

    Creative Labs

    CT3990

    ISA-16

    Yes, after modprobe sb

    ESS AudioDrive

    ES1868F

    ISA-16

    Yes, after modprobe sb

    OPTi 931

    OPTi 82C931

    ISA-16

    no

    C-Media PCI Multimedia Controller (on 500MHz motherboard)

    CM8738

    PCI

    no

DyneBolicHardwareList (last edited 2008-06-26 09:59:49 by anonymous)