Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO: Other hardware

22.1 Amateur Radio

The following cards etc. are supported:

KISS based Terminal Node Controllers
Ottawa PI card
Gracilis PacketTwin card
Other Z8530 SCC based cards
Parallel and serial port Baycom modems
Soundblaster cards
Soundcards based on the Crystal chipset

22.2 VESA Power Savings Protocol (DPMS) monitors

Support for power savings is included in the Linux kernel. Just use setterm to enable support.

22.3 Touch screens

The Metro-X X-server is supporting the following touch screen controllers:

Carrol Touch serial touch screen
http://www.carrolltouch.com
EloGraphics
Lucas Deeco
MicroTouch

22.4 Terminals on serial port

Old terminals can easily be used under Linux by connecting them to the serial port of your system. At least the following terminals will be supported:

VT52
VT100
VT220
VT320
VT420

22.5 Joysticks

Joystick support is in the latest XFree86 distributions (3.3.x) and in kernel versions 2.1.xx. For older kernels the links below are usefull.

Joystick driver
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/console/joystick-1.0.6.tar.gz
Joystick driver (module)
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/console/joyfixed.tgz

22.6 Video capture boards / Frame Grabbers / TV tuner

A couple of programs are available that support TV tuners. These are:

BTTV http://www.thp.Uni-Koeln.DE/~rjkm/linux/bttv.html
Xawtv
Xtvscreen

CMOS Video Conferencing Kit. The video capture card has a BT849 chipset. It comes with a CCD camera.
Data Translation DT2803
Data Translation DT2851 Frame Grabber
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/dt2851-2.01.tar.gz
Data Translation DT3155
http://krusty.eecs.umich.edu/people/ncowan/linux/welcome.html
Diamond DTV2000 (based on BT848)
Dipix XPG1000/FPG/PPMAPA (based on TI C40 DSP). Most add-on cards are supported.
http://www.thp.Uni-Koeln.DE/~rjkm/linux/bttv.html
Epix SVM
Epix Silicon Video MUX series of video frame grabbing boards
http://www.ssc.com/lj/issue13/npc13c.html
FAST Screen Machine II
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/ScreenMachineII.2.0.tgz
Hauppage Wincast TV PCI (based on BT848)
http://www.thp.Uni-Koeln.DE/~rjkm/linux/bttv.html
Imaging Technology ITI/IC-PCI
ftp://ftp.gom-online.de/pub/IC-PCI/icpci-0.3.2.tar.gz
ImageNation Cortex I
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/cortex.drv.1.1.tgz
ImageNation CX100
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/cxdrv-0.86.tar.gz
ImageNation PX500 (being worked on). Ask for current status
rubini@linux.it
Imaging Technology Inc. IC-PCI frame grabber board
ftp://gandalf.expmech.ing.tu-bs.de/pub/driver/icpci-0.2.0.tar.gz
Matrox Meteor
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/meteor-1.4a.tgz
Matrox PIP-1024
http://www.powerup.com.au/~sobeyp/pip_tar.gz
MaxiTV/PCI (based on ZR36120)
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/misc-cards/zr36120-971127.tgz
Miro PCTV (based on BT848)
http://www.thp.Uni-Koeln.DE/~rjkm/linux/bttv.html
MuTech MV1000 PCI
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/mv1000drv-0.33.tgz
MuTech MV200
http://www.powerup.com.au/~sobeyp/mu_tar.gz
Philips PCA10TV (not in production anymore)
ftp://ftp.il.ft.hse.nl/pub/tv1000/pctv1000.02.tgz
Pro Movie Studio
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/PMS-grabber.3.0.tgz
Quanta WinVision B&W video capture card
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/fgrabber-1.0.tgz
Quickcam
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/qcam-0.7c-5.tar.gz
Sensus 700
http://www.robots.com/s700.htm
Smart Video Recoder III (based on BT848)
http://www.thp.Uni-Koeln.DE/~rjkm/linux/bttv.html
STB TV PCI Television Tuner (based on BT848)
http://www.thp.Uni-Koeln.DE/~rjkm/linux/bttv.html
Tekram C210 (based on ZR36120)
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/misc-cards/zr36120-971127.tgz
Video Blaster, Rombo Media Pro+
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/vid_src-0.6.tgz
VT1500 TV cards
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/vt1500-1.0.9.tar.gz

22.7 Digital Camera

HP Photo Smart Digital Camera ??
ftp://ftp.itojun.org/pub/digi-cam/

22.8 UPS

Various other UPS's are supported, read the UPS HOWTO

APC SmartUPS
http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/apcupsd
APC-BackUPS 400/600, APC-SmartUPS SU700/1400RM
http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/apcupsd
UPS's with RS-232 monitoring port (genpower package)
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/ups/genpower-1.0.1.tgz
MGE UPS's
http://www.mgeups.com/download/softlib.htm and http://www.mgeups.com/download/software/linux/upsp.tgz
A daemon to shut down and up computers connected to ups's. It's network aware and allows server- and client-mode
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/ups/powerd-2.0.tar.gz

22.9 Multifunction boards

Pro Audio Spectrum 16 SCSI / Sound interface card

The Linux Lab Project site collects drivers for hardware dealing with data acquisition, they also maintain some mailing lists dealing with the subject. I have no experience with data acquisition so please check the site for more details.

Linux Lab Project
http://www.llp.fu-berlin.de/

CED 1401
DBCC CAMAC
IEEE-488 (GPIB, HPIB) boards
Keithley DAS-1200
National Instruments AT-MIO-16F / Lab-PC+

Analog Devices RTI-800/815 ADC/DAC board
contact Paul Gortmaker <gpg109@anu.edu.au>

22.11 Watchdog timer interfaces

Berkshire Products PC Watchdog Card (ISA cards rev. A and C)
Check ftp://ftp.bitgate.com/pub/bitgate/pcwd for the PC Watchdog program. A driver is included in recent kernels. More information on this product can be found at http://www.berkprod.com/wdog.htm
ICS WDT500-P ( http://www.indcomp.src.com/products/data/html/wdt500-p.html)
ICS WDT501-P (with and without fan tachometer) ( http://www.indcomp.src.com/products/data/html/wdt500-p.html)

22.12 Miscellaneous

Mattel Powerglove
AIMS Labs RadioTrack FM radio card
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/sound/radio/radiotrack-1.1.tgz
Reveal FM Radio card
ftp://magoo.uwsuper.edu/docs/radio.html
Videotext cards
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/videoteXt-0.6.tar.gz

22. Other hardware