Subject: Hardware Compatability Survey (Please Reply!)
From: [email-masked] (travis jensen)
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 06:55:02 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.admin

[Please, please, take a minute to fill this out. A reliable survey
of hardware that does and doesn't work under Linux would greatly
reduce traffic to the effect of "Will such-and-such board word under
Linux"? Because in many cases it's impossible to tell if it works
until someone tries it, this would really help the community if you
could take just a minute and fill out the survey. Even if you have
a completely run-of-the-mill, no-frills system... please, fill it
out. All you have to do is fill in the blanks after each question. 
Thanks. --mdw]

In trying to reduce the traffic in the c.o.l.* groups, it was
mentioned that a updated Hardware Compatability Sheet would probably 
help, that way instead of asking the group "Does a tape drive 
made by foo with a SCSI card made by bar work under Linux", one 
can look in the sheet.  I am willing to put together that sheet
if you are willing to answer the questions in this survey.

Hardware Survey:

  This survey will be broken down into two sections, Desktops
  and Notebooks.  Each section will have several sub-sections
  that specify individual configurations.  Also, there is a
  sub-section for those people (like me :) who bought there
  PC in a big box and just plugged it in.  However, if you
  know the specifics, please fill them out.  In addition,
  there is a sub-section for each section on what *doesn't*
  work, as that is probably as improtant as what does work.

  This will probably replace the Hardware Compatability HOWTO, 
  as it hasn't been updated since Aug, 93; and I e-mailed Ed 
  but didn't hear anything back from him.

  Please follow the format exactly as it is given here.  Any
  reply that does not follow this form exactly will be sent
  back to the sender.

  Every item has room for comments.  Please feel free to give
  any comments (including how you got it to work :).  At the
  end of your comments, please put an empty line with two
  periods at the begining of it (no white space before the
  periods).

  Each item has a flag for hardware that is supported only in
  ALPHA (ALPHA software or kernel patches).  If your hardware
  is only supported under ALPHA software, *please* mark this
  (no mark is assumed to be 'N').

  Queries with a [A1/A2/...] mean respond only with A1 or A2
  or ...  You need only respond with enough characters to make
  the reply distinct from any of the other replies.

  Queries with a (A1, A2, etc) are just possible options, but
  you can fill in the blank any way you like.

  If you want to leave any comments for me in this survey (not
  to be included in the final document), place a '#' at the 
  beginning of the line.

  Finally, if you think of a way this survey could be improved,
  let me know!

1.0) Desktops:

1.1) What works?

1.11) Motherboard questions: 

CPU (Intel, AMD, etc):
Model (386, 486, Pentium, etc):
Speed of chip (in Mhz):
Manufacturer of motherboard:
Model number of motherboard:
Physical Memory (in megabytes):
Bus architecture (AT, XT, etc):
ALPHA? [Y/N]:
Comments:

1.12) Video card questions:

Manufacturer of video card:
Model of video card:
Chipset of graphics card:
X-window support [Y/N]?
If yes, which X server [Herc/Mach32/Mach8/Mono/S3/SVGA/VGA16]?
ALPHA? [Y/N]:
Comments:

1.13) Monitor questions:
Manufacturer of monitor:
Model of monitor:
Size of monitor (in inches or cm's):
Max Resolution for X (x_pix X y_pix):
ALPHA? [Y/N]:
Comments:

1.14) Hard drive questions:
 For this section, please use the following format for each
 drive that you have on your system (as many as is necessary)
 Please do not include IDE drives that you have gotten to work,
 as I understand it, all IDE drives should work.  Only include
 those that don't work (include in section 2).  Thanks.

Type (SCSI/SCSI-2/MLM):
Manufacturer:
Model:
Size (in megabytes):
ALPHA? [Y/N]:
Comments:

1.15) Tape backup questions:

Manufacturer:
Model:
Capacity (in megabytes):
Type (IDE, SCSI, parallel port, etc):
ALPHA? [Y/N]:
Comments:

1.16) CD ROM questions:

Manufacturer:
Model:
Type [IDE/SCSI]:
ALPHA? [Y/N]:
Comments:

1.17) Modem/fax questions:

Manufacturer:
Model:
Speed:
Compression:
ALPHA? [Y/N]:
Comments:

1.18) Mouse

Manufacturer:
Model:
Type (bus, ps2, etc):
ALPHA? [Y/N]:
Comments:

1.19) Ethernet card questions:

Manufacturer:
Model:
ALPHA [Y/N]:
Comments:

1.20) What other hardware do you use with Linux, and what software
  is needed to use it (e.g., kernel patches).  An example is the
  ALPHA ISDN driver.  Give a short description of the hardware
  on the description line.

Description:
Manufacturer:
Model:
ALPHA [Y/N]:
Comments:

1.2)  What doesn't work?

1.21)  Hardware that you've tried that doesn't work:

Description:
Manufacturer:
Model:
ALPHA [Y/N]:
Comments:

1.3)  Out-of-the-box systems:
(Please list any changes to the purchase configuration, and put
 them above.)

1.31)  Who made it?

Manufacturer (vendor):
Model:
ALPHA [Y/N]:
Comments:

2.0)  	Notebooks:

2.1)  	What works?

2.11) 	Who made it?

Manufacturer (vendor):
Model:
Does X windows run [Y/N]:
How many colors [Mono/16/256]:
ALPHA [Y/N]:
Comments:

2.12)	Notebook periphials:
 Note:  You can repeat this section as many times as is
	 necessary.

Description:
Type (PCMCIA, parallel port, internal):
Manufacturer:
Model:
ALPHA [Y/N]:
Comments:

2.2) What doesn't work?

2.21) Notebooks you couldn't get Linux running on:

Manufacturer:
Model:
Comments:

2.22) Notebooks you couldn't get X running on:

Manufacturer:
Model:
Comments:

2.23) Periphials you couldn't get working under Linux

Description:
Manufacturer:
Model:
Type (PMCIA, parallel port, internal, etc):
ALPHA [Y/N]:
Comments:

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Travis  

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