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== IDE Controllers ==

  || Name || Works? ||
  || SiS 530 || Yes! ||

Martin Guy, Dot Cafe, Canterbury, November 2003.

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 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)

Processors

  • || INot really "secure", but...

ntel Pentium MMX 200 MHz [Compaq Deskpro 2000/5200MMX] || 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!

IDE controllers

  • Chip

    Works?

    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 9600 Pro

    ?

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

    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.

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

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)