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