The latest version of XFree86 is the 4.1.0, available from this server.

To use the MGA G100 AGP card, with a version of XFree86 before the 3.3.2 one, you have to use an option in the file XF86Config : Option "no_accel".

Section example :

Section "Device" [...] VendorName "Matrox" VideoRam 4096 Option "no_accel" EndSection

This card can support up to two displays. These displays can be configured in two different ways.

For uniquely independent screen operation, you can configure displays for "multi-screen" work. In this mode, the X server reports two independent screens for client connections. These are numbered using the "minor" display number (e.g. <hostname>:0.0 and <hostname>:0.1). There is no support to move client windows between the screens.

The other configuration option uses the XINERAMA extension. This configuration links multiple screens to behave as one logical screen. In this mode, the X server reports one screen for all client connections. X clients can move between screens and the overall screen resolution is doubled width or height depending upon the desired setup.

The following examples demonstrate these possibilities through the configuration file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 :

Section "Device" Identifier "G450_0" Driver "mga" Screen 0 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "G450_1" Driver "mga" Screen 1 EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "G450_0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" Viewport 0 0 EndSubsection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen1" Device "G450_1" Monitor "Monitor1" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" Viewport 0 0 EndSubsection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "MyLayout" Screen "Screen0" LeftOf "Screen1" Screen "Screen1" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" EndSection

To enable the XINERAMA extension, you may use one of two ways. The first is by adding a command-line option to the X server. This can be done as follows:

#startx -- +xinerama

The second method is by adding an option to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 :

Section "ServerFlags" Option "Xinerama" "on" EndSection

The Matrox driver supports several XFree86 options through the file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. The example below describes two such options that contribute to improved graphics performance:

Section "Device" Identifier "Matrox G450" Driver "mga" # Use this option to enable AGP 2X mode # In default mode AGP 1x, the host to graphics bandwidth is about 500 MB/sec # This will increase the host to graphics bandwidth to about 1 GB/sec # This mode is recommended by HP for X2000/X4000 Option "AGPMode4x" "on" # Use this option to enable AGP 4X mode # This will increase the host to graphics bandwidth to about 2 GB/sec # This mode is recommended by HP for X2000/X4000 EndSection

The maximum resolution supported by this chipset in frame-buffer mode is 800x600 in 16 bpp (vga=0x315 in /etc/lilo.conf)

This chipset is also supported by XFree 3.3.6 with the Mach64 driver and a patch available at http://www.staikos.on.ca/~staikos/tp1460/XFMa64-Rage-Thinkpad.patch.

A precompiled X server is available at this address : http://www.0wned.org/XFMa64-Rage-Thinkpad.tar.gz.

This serveur is available from the ATI site at http://support.ati.com/drivers/

To enable multi-screen with FireGL4, set the monitor resolution to a supported multi-screen resolution like 2560x1024 in the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. The firegl driver recognizes this and sets up multi-screen when the Xserver starts. Make sure you have two monitors set up and connected to the two DVI ports on the FireGL4 card.

The firegl driver supports several XFree86 options through the file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Values indicated in the example correspond to the default values.

Section "Device" Identifier "FIRE GL2" Driver "firegl" Option "Overlay" "off" # Use this option to enable limited overlay plane support. # NOTE: currently this is not intended to support the running of applications in the overlay planes. # Number of 4k DMA buffers used per OpenGL context. # number of 4k DMA buffers used per OpenGL process by texture manager. # parameter command line passed to firegl kernel module # Example:Option "KernelModuleParm" "maxlockedmem=64;agpgart=2" # Option list: # maxlockedmem: Maximum locked DMA memory # Maximum locked display list memory # Value 0, use firegl built-in support, value 2, disable firegl built-in AGP GART support if an agpgart module is loaded, it will be used, value 3, disable AGP GART support # agp_try_unsupported: try unsupported chipsets Option "OffScreenPixmaps" "no" # enables the use of frame buffer memory to save/generate pixmaps. Option "BIOSInfo" "no" # enable BIOS version output to the XFree86.0.log file Option "HW Cursor" "yes" # Enable HW Cursor Option "enable DVI" "no" # enable DVI connector(s) (always enabled in dual mode (Fire GL3/4) Option "no_accel" "no" # Disable XAA hardware acceleration Option "NoDDC" "no" # disables PnP Monitor functionality such as automatic mode configuration (This important for Fire GL3/4 users who want to work with dual screen modes) Option "AGPSpeed" "-1" # 0 for AGP off, 1 for AGP 1x, 2 for AGP 2x, 4 for AGP 4x, -1 for "Query Chipset" # EndSection

To use a Cirrus Logic GD 5465 AGP card, with a version below Xfree86 3.3.3, you have to use an option in the file XF86Config : Option "xaa_no_color_exp".

Section example :

Section "Device" [...] Identifier "CL-GD5465" VendorName "Cirrus" BoardName "GD5465" VideoRam 2048 Option "xaa_no_color_exp" EndSection

Some users who had problems with the support of this chipset were more satisfied with the use of the "sw_cursor" option.

Specifications of that card should be consulted on Elsa web site. This card is equiped with an hardware OpenGL accelerator. Under Linux, there is an OpenGL compatible layer called Mesa. This layer begins to support hardware accelerators, and among them the 3DLabs chipset which is on Elsa Gloria cards.

• Elsa web site

• OpenGL web site

• Mesa web site

This card is only supported by the 3.3.6 version of XFree86 and upper. Nevertheless, even in that version, this is a preliminary support, which isn't as stable as the Frame Buffer mode.

On the other hand, to be able to install a RedHat 6.1 version, you should do that in text mode, because the server provided (3.3.5) doesn't support this card.

If you have a dual-boot system, booting first on Windows, and initialize the card through its driver seems to improve the operations then under Linux (warm reboot).

Versions of XFree86 above 4.0.2 also offer the support of this chipset.

(Informations provided by Frédéric Dubuy <F.Dubuy@atrid.fr>, Anne-Marie Mahfouf <a-m.mahfouf@lineone.net> and Jean-Bernard Chaffardon <Jean-Bernard_Chaffardon@hp.com>)

These cards are only supported with a specific X server XFCom_i810/5 downloadable in both format RPM or tar.gz and a complementary module for the kernel agpgart, downloadable in both format SRPM or tar.gz (old).

Detailed documentations on the installation are provided at http://www.linux-france.org/article/x/GuideIntel810/book1.html and ftp://download.intel.com/support/graphics/intel815/release_linux.pdf

To summarize, once the X server installed, the module compiled and installed, it's sufficient to modify with the following parameters the file /etc/X11/XF86Config :

Section "Device" [...] Identifier "i810" [...] EndSection [...] Section "Screen" [...] Driver "svga" Device "i810" [...] EndSection

You have to note that the agpgart module provided by Intel should replace the one delivered in the kernel so that it works. You then have to reinstall it, particularly when a kernel update occurs.

This card is only supported with a specific X server downloadable at ftp://ftp.s3.com/pub/s3/desktop/395/395_xf86_1011.tar.gz

For the installation, please read the following document

To use the Frame Buffer mode, please consult the following documents http://www.medasys-digital-systems.fr/linux/framebuffer.html and http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO.html.

It's possible to use XFree86 in dual-head mode. The following example of configuration is provided by S. Eranian for a Matrox G200 AGP and a ATI Rage 128 PCI card. "The key element is that you must specify the PCI id for both cards."

# /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 # File generated by xf86config. # # Copyright (c) 1999 by The XFree86 Project, Inc. # # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a # copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), # to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation # the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, # and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the # Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: # # The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in # all copies or substantial portions of the Software. # # THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR # IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL # THE XFREE86 PROJECT BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, # WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF # OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE # SOFTWARE. # # Except as contained in this notice, the name of the XFree86 Project shall # not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other # dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from the # XFree86 Project. # # ********************************************************************** # Refer to the XF86Config(4/5) man page for details about the format of # this file. # ********************************************************************** # ********************************************************************** # Module section -- this section is used to specify # which dynamically loadable modules to load. # ********************************************************************** Section "Module" # This loads the DBE extension module. Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension # This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables # initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module. # SubSection "extmod" # Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension # EndSubSection Load "extmod" # This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules Load "type1" Load "freetype" # This loads the GLX module Load "glx" # Load "dri" EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection # ********************************************************************** # Files section. This allows default font and rgb paths to be set # ********************************************************************** Section "Files" # The location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the # file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally # no need to change the default. RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together), # as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath # command (or a combination of both methods) # # If you don't have a floating point coprocessor and emacs, Mosaic or other # programs take long to start up, try moving the Type1 and Speedo directory # to the end of this list (or comment them out). # FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" # FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" FontPath "/opt/fonts" # The module search path. The default path is shown here. ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" EndSection # ********************************************************************** # Server flags section. # ********************************************************************** Section "ServerFlags" # Uncomment this to cause a core dump at the spot where a signal is # received. This may leave the console in an unusable state, but may # provide a better stack trace in the core dump to aid in debugging # Option "NoTrapSignals" # Uncomment this to disable the <Ctrl><Alt><BS> server abort sequence # This allows clients to receive this key event. # Option "DontZap" # Uncomment this to disable the <Ctrl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> mode switching # sequences. This allows clients to receive these key events. # Option "Dont Zoom" # Uncomment this to disable tuning with the xvidtune client. With # it the client can still run and fetch card and monitor attributes, # but it will not be allowed to change them. If it tries it will # receive a protocol error. # Option "DisableVidModeExtension" # Uncomment this to enable the use of a non-local xvidtune client. # Option "AllowNonLocalXvidtune" # Uncomment this to disable dynamically modifying the input device # (mouse and keyboard) settings. # Option "DisableModInDev" # Uncomment this to enable the use of a non-local client to # change the keyboard or mouse settings (currently only xset). # Option "AllowNonLocalModInDev" EndSection # ********************************************************************** # Input devices # ********************************************************************** # ********************************************************************** # Core keyboard's InputDevice section # ********************************************************************** Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "Keyboard" # For most OSs the protocol can be omitted (it defaults to "Standard"). # When using XQUEUE (only for SVR3 and SVR4, but not Solaris), # uncomment the following line. # Option "Protocol" "Xqueue" Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30" # Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1)) # Option "Xleds" "1 2 3" # Option "LeftAlt" "Meta" # Option "RightAlt" "ModeShift" # To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the # lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S. # keyboard, you will probably want to use: # Option "XkbModel" "pc102" # If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use: # Option "XkbModel" "microsoft" # # Then to change the language, change the Layout setting. # For example, a german layout can be obtained with: # Option "XkbLayout" "de" # or: # Option "XkbLayout" "de" # Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys" # # If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and # control keys, use: # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps" # These are the default XKB settings for XFree86 # Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" # Option "XkbModel" "pc101" # Option "XkbLayout" "us" # Option "XkbVariant" "" # Option "XkbOptions" "" # Option "XkbDisable" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" Option "XkbModel" "pc101" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection # ********************************************************************** # Core Pointer's InputDevice section # ********************************************************************** Section "InputDevice" # Identifier and driver Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" # Option "Protocol" "PS/2" Option "Protocol" "imps/2" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" # When using XQUEUE, comment out the above two lines, and uncomment # the following line. # Option "Protocol" "Xqueue" # Baudrate and SampleRate are only for some Logitech mice. In # almost every case these lines should be omitted. # Option "BaudRate" "9600" # Option "SampleRate" "150" # Emulate3Buttons is an option for 2-button Microsoft mice # Emulate3Timeout is the timeout in milliseconds (default is 50ms) # Option "Emulate3Buttons" # Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50" # ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice # Option "ChordMiddle" EndSection # ********************************************************************** # Other input device sections # this is optional and is required only if you # are using extended input devices. This is for example only. Refer # to the XF86Config man page for a description of the options. # ********************************************************************** # # Section "InputDevice" # Identifier "Mouse2" # Driver "mouse" # Option "Protocol" "MouseMan" # Option "Device" "/dev/mouse2" # EndSection # # Section "InputDevice" # Identifier "spaceball" # Driver "magellan" # Option "Device" "/dev/cua0" # EndSection # # Section "InputDevice" # Identifier "spaceball2" # Driver "spaceorb" # Option "Device" "/dev/cua0" # EndSection # # Section "InputDevice" # Identifier "touchscreen0" # Driver "microtouch" # Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0" # Option "MinX" "1412" # Option "MaxX" "15184" # Option "MinY" "15372" # Option "MaxY" "1230" # Option "ScreenNumber" "0" # Option "ReportingMode" "Scaled" # Option "ButtonNumber" "1" # Option "SendCoreEvents" # EndSection # # Section "InputDevice" # Identifier "touchscreen1" # Driver "elo2300" # Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0" # Option "MinX" "231" # Option "MaxX" "3868" # Option "MinY" "3858" # Option "MaxY" "272" # Option "ScreenNumber" "0" # Option "ReportingMode" "Scaled" # Option "ButtonThreshold" "17" # Option "ButtonNumber" "1" # Option "SendCoreEvents" # EndSection # ********************************************************************** # Monitor section # ********************************************************************** # Any number of monitor sections may be present Section "Monitor" Identifier "HP4331D" # HorizSync is in kHz unless units are specified. # HorizSync may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a # comma separated list of ranges of values. # NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY. REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S # USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS. HorizSync 30-82 # HorizSync 30-64 # multisync # HorizSync 31.5, 35.2 # multiple fixed sync frequencies # HorizSync 15-25, 30-50 # multiple ranges of sync frequencies # VertRefresh is in Hz unless units are specified. # VertRefresh may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a # comma separated list of ranges of values. # NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY. REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S # USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS. VertRefresh 48-150 ++vsync EndSection # ********************************************************************** # Graphics device section # ********************************************************************** # Any number of graphics device sections may be present # Standard VGA Device: Section "Device" Identifier "Standard VGA" VendorName "Unknown" BoardName "Unknown" # The chipset line is optional in most cases. It can be used to override # the driver's chipset detection, and should not normally be specified. # Chipset "generic" # The Driver line must be present. When using run-time loadable driver # modules, this line instructs the server to load the specified driver # module. Even when not using loadable driver modules, this line # indicates which driver should interpret the information in this section. Driver "vga" # The BusID line is used to specify which of possibly multiple devices # this section is intended for. When this line isn't present, a device # section can only match up with the primary video device. For PCI # devices a line like the following could be used. This line should not # normally be included unless there is more than one video device # intalled. # BusID "PCI:0:10:0" # VideoRam 256 # Clocks 25.2 28.3 EndSection # Device configured by xf86config: Section "Device" Identifier "G200" Driver "mga" BusID "PCI:4:0:0" #VideoRam 8192 VideoRam 8192 # Option "SWCursor" # Option "ShadowFB" # Option "PciRetry" # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "permedia2" Driver "glint" BusID "PCI:1:8:0" #VideoRam 4096 #VideoRam 4096 # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "rage" Driver "r128" BusID "PCI:01:08:00" EndSection # ********************************************************************** # Screen sections # ********************************************************************** # Any number of screen sections may be present. Each describes # the configuration of a single screen. A single specific screen section # may be specified from the X server command line with the "-screen" # option. Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen 1" Device "rage" Monitor "HP4331D" DefaultDepth 16 Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 # Modes "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024" Modes "1024x768" "1280x1024" "640x480" "800x600" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 # Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024" Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen 2" Device "G200" Monitor "HP4331D" DefaultDepth 16 Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 # Modes "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024" Modes "1280x1024" "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection EndSection # ********************************************************************** # ServerLayout sections. # ********************************************************************** # Any number of ServerLayout sections may be present. Each describes # the way multiple screens are organised. A specific ServerLayout # section may be specified from the X server command line with the # "-layout" option. In the absence of this, the first section is used. # When now ServerLayout section is present, the first Screen section # is used alone. Section "ServerLayout" # The Identifier line must be present Identifier "Simple Layout" # Each Screen line specifies a Screen section name, and optionally # the relative position of other screens. The four names after # primary screen name are the screens to the top, bottom, left and right # of the primary screen. In this example, screen 2 is located to the # right of screen 1. # Screen "Screen 1" Screen "Screen 1" "" "" "" "Screen 2" Screen "Screen 2" "" "" "Screen 1" "" # Screen "Screen 2" # Each InputDevice line specifies an InputDevice section name and # optionally some options to specify the way the device is to be # used. Those options include "CorePointer", "CoreKeyboard" and # "SendCoreEvents". InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection

The latest version of the aic7xxx driver is available from the reference site.

The latest version of the ncr53c8xx driver is available from the reference site.

A driver disk for the RedHat distribution is available at the following address for the versions 6.2 and 7.0.

To use a driver disk on a RedHat 6.2 distribution, you need to boot with the latest boot disk made by RedHat. Either by remaking a CD-ROM containing it, or by using it directly. It"s available at the following address ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/6.2/en/os/images/i386/boot-20000407.img

To use the D6692A card, you need to use a 2.1.122 kernel at least. Previous kernels didn't handled correctly the shared IRQ between the network and SCSI parts of the card. In particular, a standard RedHat 5.2 version doesn't allow to the network part to be supported. You have to update your kernel with a recent one (preferably 2.4.16) and the distribution with the complementary packages needed.

The latest version of the 3c59x driver is available from the reference site.

There is also a version provided and supported by 3Com, available at http://support.3com.com/infodeli/tools/nic/linuxdownload.htm.

There are also other drivers available at ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/test/3c59x.c and http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/#3c59x-bc.

This card is supported by kernel 2.2.17 and upper.

A driver is provided by Intel to support its cards based on the PRO/100 model, in its various versions. Depending on the model, you'll have a better support with this one, or with the standard eepro100 provided in the Linux kernel. It should allow a systematic support of the latest models. It's available at ftp://download.intel.com/df-support/2896/eng/e100-1.6.22.tar.gz

If you use the e100 driver, you could also use the ANS tools (Advanced Network Services) allowing you to do AFT (Adapter Fault Tolerance), ALB (Adaptive Load Balancing, including AFT), FEC or 802.3ad (Link Aggregation). For more details on these modes, please refer to the file associated with the file to download called readme.txt. It's available at ftp://download.intel.com/df-support/2895/eng/ians-1.4.27.tar.gz

To use this functionality, proceed as follow:

#ifconfig ethx down # For all adapters of the team #ianscfg -a -tTEAM # Create the team #ianscfg -C -tTEAM -Mmode # Determine the mode of the team #ianscfg -a -tTEAM -methx # Add the interface ethx to the team #ianscfg -a -tTEAM -vveth0 # Create the virtual interface veth0 associated to the team #ianscfg -c -tTEAM # Activate the team #ianscfg -w -f/etc/ians.conf # Save the configuration #ifconfig veth0 xxx.yyy.zzz.ttt ... # Configure the virtual interface as usual

Other tools around this driver may be found on Intel's web site: http://appsr.intel.com/scripts-df/filter_results.asp?strOSs=39&strTypes=PLU%2CDRV%2CSPH%2CUTL&ProductID=416&OSFullName=Linux*&submit=Go%21

The Intel Pro/100 and 3Com 3C59x network cards used in majority in HP machines support the Wake on Lan function (WOL). All the details on http://www.scyld.com/expert/wake-on-lan.html,

The chipset 2EM (Vendor id: 125d - device id: 1978) is supported in 2.2.14 kernel and upper. Version 3 (Vendor id: 125d - device id: 1998) on the other side is supported in 2.2.19pre5 kernel and upper. Cf : the site of the maestro3, driver, the Alsa^Rem. project (version >= 0.5.10) driver, and the commercial software Open Sound System . The latest version of the ESS Maestro driver is available from the reference site.

The latest version of the AD1816 driver is available from the reference site.

For Visualize workstations, it's recommended by HP to put in /etc/conf.modules :

alias sound ad1816 pre-install sound /sbin/insmod sound dmabuf=1 options ad1816 io=0x500 irq=5 dma=0 dma2=3 ad1816_clockfreq=33000 alias midi opl3 options opl3 io=0x388

(Source : http://www.hp.com/visualize/support/technotes/linux)

The latest version of the SB Live driver is available from the reference site.

The Alsa project has for primary goals to develop drivers to support sound cards in Linux, being fully compatible with current OSS drivers, bringing more functionalities and supporting more hardware.

All the information on this project, as well as sources under the GPL license, are available from their home page http://www.alsa-project.org

RPMs for RedHat 6.2 and Turbo Linux 6.0 distribution are available at the address http://hp-linux.org/aau/alsa

For machines equipped with this chipset, Chuck Slivkoff reports that it works when you put the following parameters in /etc/conf.modules :

alias char-major-116 snd alias char-major-14 soundcore post-install snd /sbin/modprobe snd-card-azt2320 pre-install snd-card-azt2320 /sbin/modprobe isapnp post-remove snd-card-azt2320 /sbin/modprobe -r isapnp post-install snd-card-azt2320 bash -c ' /sbin/modprobe snd-mixer-oss; /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss; '

These models are delivered with MS-DOS only, in order to have a Linux Machine at the best price.

These models are delivered ready to be installed with Turbo Linux, in order to have a Linux Machine at the best price (2 CDs + 30 days of support).

These models are delivered preloaded with a improved distribution based on RedHat (shameless plug, as I did it :-)

On that machine, the Bios doesn't give the right amount of memory which is in the machine to Linux. You need to use a line such as append="mem=xxxM" at the begining of /etc/lilo.conf where xxx is your RAM in MB.

The support of "big size" IDE disks (for example, 27 GB disks provided for the XU 800) on these machines needs a kernel 2.2.15 at least.

If you intend to use both the sound chipset and a PCMCIA card in this laptop, in order to avoid conflicts at input/output ports level, you'll have to modify the file /etc/pcmcia/config.opts to change the line 6 to

include port 0x300-0x4ff, port 0x1000-0x17ff

The NSC PC87108/338 chipset controlling IrDA on this model is supported by the 2.4.16 kernel. (Source : http://www.bits.bris.ac.uk/madmatt/laptop.shtml)

Some users had to apply the same tric for their Omnibook 4150 with success.

It is recommended to not launch /sbin/halt under X11. The integrated modem card is not supported under Linux (ESS ES56CVM-PL).

The installation of a RedHat 6.2 distribution gives a problem when rebooting the system, at the PCMCIA initialisation. You have to install the latest version of the pcmcia-cs package at ftp://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/pub/pcmcia-cs/

To use the network with this distribution, you need a tulip driver modified by P. "goldpenguin" Depouilly, and available at http://www.math.u-bordeaux.fr/~depouill/XE3/tulip.tar.gz

Pop-up mouse is supported. Olivier Florent wrote the original linux code. Grant Grundler rewrote it and published it. See obmouse.sourceforge.net

If you use the Adaptec APA-1480 SCSI PCMCIA card, It must be in the top slot. If you don't put it in the top slot, the card that is in the top slot will not work. Also, even though the APA-1480 was supported long before this, the first time it worked on an Omnibook was kernel 2.2.16. There was some problems with the earlier cardbus drivers and the Omnibook. (Information from Bruce Kives)

reboot doesn't work correctly on this machine, which remains blocked instead of rebooting. Use the poweroff button to reset it. (Information from Yuthay Yean)

Soon more info ;-)

B models use Ultra 3 SCSI sym53c1010 (A models use ultra 2).

To use the native SCSI bus of this machine, it"s necessary to use the sym53c8xx driver with a version upon 1.6c. A driver disk for RedHat distributions is available for versions 6.1, 6.2 and 7.0.

For the SuSE 7.0 distribution, you have to enter the manual mode to load the driver, as autodetection doesn"t work correctly.

In order to use the native SCSI controler you need to disable in the Bios the option "Reserve PCI Bus Numbers", in the menu PCI Device Setting (Indication of Gillynn Couch). Models P3493B and P5364B are equiped with an additional NetRaid 1M card.

To use the native SCSI bus of this machine, it"s necessary to use the sym53c8xx driver with a version upon 1.6c. A driver disk for RedHat distributions is available for versions 6.1, 6.2 and 7.0.

For the SuSE 7.0 distribution, you have to enter the manual mode to load the driver, as autodetection doesn"t work correctly.

In order to use the native SCSI controler you need to desactivate in the Bios the "reserver PCI Bus #s", in the menu PCI Device Setting. The PS/2 system doesn't work correctly with a RedHat 6.1 or 6.2 distribution. In order to correct that you need to either put the machine in MPS 1.1, in the BIOS, or use a kernel above 2.3.47 in MPS 1.4 mode. The network card doesn't work correctly with the kernel of the RedHat 6.2 distribution.

In order to use the native SCSI controler you need to desactivate in the Bios the "reserver PCI Bus #s", in the menu PCI Device Setting.

Intel BX Chipset (Memory Bus at 100 MHz) is supported by kernels above 2.0.34/2.1.103.

Coppermine 0.18 µm technology - 256 kB synchronous cache - Intel i820 Chipset

These machines are equiped with a Pentium IV processor, supported by kernels 2.2.18/2.4.0 and above. The RedHat 7.0, Mandrake 7.2 and TurboLinux 6.1 distributions, e.g., can be installed correctly on this kind of machines.

Attention, the XF86_SVGA server works correctly with this mother board embedded version only above XFree86 3.3.5, due to the use of different frequencies (In particular, use the updates for RedHat 5.2/6.0).

Creation of a custom RedHat 5.1 Boot disk

To be able to boot with the RedHat 5.1 boot disk, and to have the support of the 3C905B-TX card, you need to do the following :

Log as root. Go in the home directory (~root) #cd ~ Put there the 3c59x.c source module for the 3Com card #ncftp ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/3c59x.c Compile it #gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c 3c59x.c `[ -f /usr/include/linux/modversions.h ] && echo -DMODVERSIONS` put the RedHat 5.1 floppy boot disk in the drive you have to copy the initrd.img file from the floppy disk #mcopy a:initrd.img /tmp then uncompress it #gzip -cd /tmp/initrd.img > /tmp/initrd.ext2 Mount the "file" filesystem thus obtained #mount -t ext2 /tmp/initrd.ext2 /mnt/floppy -o loop uncompress the modules provided #gzip -cd /mnt/floppy/modules/modules.cgz > /tmp/modules.cpio extract the modules #cd /tmp ; mkdir modules ; cd modules ; cat /tmp/modules.cpio | cpio -i Copy the new updated module for the 3Com card #cp ~/3c59x.o . recreate the compressed cpio file #ls | cpio -o | gzip -c9 > ../newmodules.cgz replace the modules by their update #cp ../newmodules.cgz /mnt/floppy/modules/modules.cgz unmount the "file" filesystem #umount /mnt/floppy compress the "file" filesystem #gzip -c9 /tmp/initrd.ext2 > /tmp/initrd.img copy it on the floppy disk #mcopy /tmp/initrd.img a:

This driver is provided with latest RedHat 7.1, 7.2/Mandrake 8.0, 8.1 distributions, as kernel patches, but isn't included yet in the standard 2.4 kernel.

To be able to boot with a RedHat distribution (>6.1), and to have the recognition of a peripheral non supported in standard in the distribution, you need to do the following :

Download the delopment toolkit to create driver disk for the RedHat distribution at the following address: http://people.redhat.com/dledford

Install the sources of the driver in a directory and follow the instructions of the README file of the kit to create the modules necessary for the various kernel of the distributions.

Log as root. (~root) put the RedHat floppy boot disk to modify in the drive you have to copy the initrd.img file from the floppy disk #mcopy a:initrd.img /tmp then uncompress it #gzip -cd /tmp/initrd.img > /tmp/initrd.ext2 Mount the "file" filesystem thus obtained #mount -t ext2 /tmp/initrd.ext2 /mnt/floppy -o loop create a temporary directory #cd /tmp ; mkdir modules ; cd modules uncompress and extract the modules provided #gzip -cd /mnt/floppy/modules/modules.cgz | cpio -ivdum Copy the new updated module. In case you add it, remove also other useless modules of the same size. #cp ~/.../mod_devel_kit/rhxx/modules/x.y.z-iBOOT/module.o x.y.z-iBOOT Also in case you add it, copy the modules needed for the installed kernel during reboot, and adapt the files pcitable, module-info and modules.dep by using the information provided in the development kit. #cp -a ~/.../mod_devel_kit/rhxx/modules/x.y.z-i ~/.../mod_devel_kit/rhxx/modules/x.y.z-ismp . #vi /mnt/floppy/modules/pcitable /mnt/floppy/modules/module-info /mnt/floppy/modules/modules.dep recreate the compressed cpio file #find * -print -depth | cpio -ov -H crc | gzip -c9 > /mnt/floppy/modules/modules.cgz unmount the "file" filesystem #umount /mnt/floppy compress the "file" filesystem #gzip -c9 /tmp/initrd.ext2 > /tmp/initrd.img copy it on the floppy disk #mcopy /tmp/initrd.img a:

The LH4 doesn't seem to work correctly when not in Raid. Even with the latest Bios available at the time of the test (16.00), the problem remains. If you desactivate the Raid management, during the boot, the ncr53c8xx driver in Linux detects 4 controlers instead of 2 and boot doesn't end. To avoid that, you have to activate the Raid in the Bios and use each of the disk in Raid0 mode, which is quite the same as the solution without Raid at all.

This machine can not be installed correctly with RedHat 7.1 or Mandrake 8.0 distributions.

These cards are equiped with an AMI Megaraid chipset and may support the following Raid levels : 0, 1, 3, 5, 10, 30 and 50.

AMI has recently sold his Megaraid division to LSILogic and information is now available from http://www.megaraid.lsilogic.com/

Some NetRaid cards, as well as the chipset integrated on the LH3 and LH4 mother boards are supported by recent version of the Linux kernel (2.0.36/2.2.19/2.4.16 typically - don't use 2.0.37/38).

For the RedHat 5.2 distribution, it's not possible to install the system on this type of controler, because it's not detected by the installation program. You have to use a specific floppy disk . This floppy disk should be used as input to the rawrite tool, for example. It works for systems with less than 1 GB of memory.

For the RedHat 6.0 distribution, you have to manually declare the existence of this card as a supplementary SCSI adapter, in order to use it directly during the installation. The megaraid driver isn't automatically detected.

To avoid strange messages during the boot printed by the megaraid driver, it's necessary to recompile it with the option -DHP (before kernel 2.4.2) or -DMEGA_HP_FIX (after) or even nothing now (> 2.4.13).

For the RedHat 6.1 distribution, the megaraid driver provided by the kernel does support only the first logical drive. In order to obtain the others, please recompile a 2.2 standard kernel.

You have to note that the integrated card of the LH3/4 realises a software parity checks and performs thus less efficiently than the NetRaid daughter cards. On the other side, LH3000/6000 are equiped with an integrated card doing hardware checks.

In the driver provided by AMI there is a Raid management tool megamgr, usable within Linux, and equivalent to the tool included in the software embedded on the controler. It's downloadable from http://www.ami.com/support/prodsearch.cfm?InpProdID=17

In case of problem, old versions are available there http://www.HyPer-Linux.org/HP-HOWTO/mirror/Software/107.zip, http://www.HyPer-Linux.org/HP-HOWTO/mirror/Software/1e08.zip and http://www.HyPer-Linux.org/HP-HOWTO/mirror/Software/mega115.tgz,.

Kernel patches and utility to monitor logical/physical drives on MegaRAID (NetRAID) Adapters have been made by Katsuyuki Yumoto. "This can detect physical drive failure, send E-Mail and syslog it. NetRAID-1Si/3Si, embeded NetRAID and NetRAID-1M/2M are okay to use. Don't use this for NetRAID-4M." You'll find the code at this address http://www.jpn.hp.com/biz/products/pcserver/linux/tech/megascan-20011113.tar.gz. Use with care as the versions I tried have conducted to kernel panic.

The NetRaid 1Si card isn't recognized correctly by RedHat 7.2.

In addition to what is mentionned above, these models require a 1.14 version of the megaraid driver to work correctly. You may find a version of the sources of this driver at this address http://www.HyPer-Linux.org/HP-HOWTO/mirror/Software/ami-mr114b.tar.gz.

A driver disk for the RedHat distribution is available at the following address for the versions 6.2 and 7.0.

To use a driver disk on a RedHat 6.2 distribution, you need to boot with the latest boot disk made by RedHat. Either by remaking a CD-ROM containing it, or by using it directly. It"s available at the following address ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/6.2/en/os/images/i386/boot-20000407.img

You'll have data corruption by using these cards with the standard kernel of the RedHat 7.1 distribution. You necessaraly need this driver disk to use it correctly. This has been seen with both H.01.07 and H.01.08 firmware. Sources of the patch required to make this card work correctly with kernels 2.4.x (x < 7) are available here http://www.HyPer-Linux.org/HP-HOWTO/mirror/Software/mega115hp.tgz. The same problème is true with the Mandrake 8.0, but the 8.1 has the right driver.

These cards are equiped with a StrongARM Chipset and correspond to the Adaptec card AAC-3642. A driver is available at http://domsch.com/linux. The RedHat 7.0 includes in standard the driver even if that release of the kernel doesn't handle it normaly. Information are also available on the HP Navigator L.19.00.

On these machines, when the second ide bus is probed by the kernel, there is a timeout, which doesn't hurt, but is useless. To avoid it, just add to your lilo.conf the following line :

append="ide1=noprobe"

To desactivate processors on a Linux server, you need to give an option during the boot to the kernel such as :

Lilo boot: linux maxcpus=3

where the number of processors given in option is less by one of the number of processors wanted. For example, here we activate 4 processors.

To use a High Availability Custer under Linux, you need to use additional software, such as :

• HP MC Service Guard (Commercial)

• Linux-HA project (free) and ext3

Some of the PCs provided by HP are equiped with a multimedia keyboard. You may use the additional keys thanks to the HotKeys daemon (Cf: http://freshmeat.net/projects/hotkeys/)