28. Other hardware28.1. 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
28.2. VESA Power Savings Protocol (DPMS) monitors Support for power savings is included in the Linux kernel. Use
setterm
to enable support in the Linux console, and
xset
to enable support under X.
28.3. Touch screens The Metro-X X-server is supporting the following touch screen
controllers:
28.4. 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
28.5. Joysticks Joysticks are now supported as input devices in the new
Linux
console project. For a list of supported hardware, see
the
Linux Input Drivers Supported hardware list (alternate site
here).
The following is outdated. Please see the link above for
up-to-date information.
Joystick support is in recent XFree86 distributions (3.3.x and
higher) and in kernel versions 2.1.x and higher. For older
kernels the links below are useful.
Currently supported joysticks are:
Amiga joysticks on Amiga
CH Flightstick Pro compatibles with additional two
hats and two buttons
DirectPad Pro parallel port joystick interfaces
( here)
FP Gaming Assasin 3D ( here)
Gamepads with 6 and 8 buttons
Genius Flight2000 Digital F-23 ( here)
Gravis Blackhawk Digital ( here)
Gravis GamePad Pro ( here)
Gravis Xterminator GamePad ( here)
Logitech CyberMan 2 ( here)
Logitech ThunderPad Digital
Logitech WingMan Extreme Digital ( here)
MadCatz Panther ( here)
MadCatz Panther XL ( here)
Microsoft SideWinder 3D Pro ( here)
Microsoft SideWinder Force Feedback Pro ( here)
Microsoft SideWinder GamePad ( here)
Microsoft SideWinder Precision Pro ( here)
Multisystem joysticks (Atari, Amiga, Commodore, Amstrad)
Multisystem joysticks using 0.8.0.2 hw interface
Nintendo Entertainment System (and clone - SVI,
Pegasus ...) gamepads
PDPI Lightning L4 gamecard ( here)
Sega Genesis (MegaDrive) gamepads
Sega Master System gamepads
Sega Saturn gamepads
SNESKey parallel port joystick interfaces
Sony PlayStation gamepads
Standard joysticks with 2, 3 or 4 axes, and up to 4 buttons
Super Nintendo Entertainment System gamepads
ThrustMaster FCS compatibles with additional hat
ThrustMaster Millenium 3D Inceptor ( here)
ThrustMaster Rage 3D ( here)
TurboGraFX parallel port joystick interface ( here)
28.6. Video devices (capture boards, frame grabbers, TV tuners, etc.) These devices are all supported by the Video for Linux (v4l)/Video for Linux Two (V4L2)
subsystem. For more information, see the Video for Linux resources
page.
Bt848/849/878/879-based TV tuner cards are supported by the
bttv driver. For a
full list of cards supported by this driver, see Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Cards
in the Linux kernel source tree.
saa7130/34-based capture/TV boards are supported by the
saa7134 driver.
Cards supported by this driver include the following:
The Logitech (formerly Connectix) Color QuickCam is supported by
the c-qcam driver. See Documentation/video4linux/CQcam.txt
in the Linux kernel source or the
Logitech QuickCam color and Linux mini-HOWTO for more
information.
The cpia driver supports many parallel and USB webcams, including
the following:
Aiptek HyperVcam Fun USB (Note: some use the OV511,
which is not supported)
Creative Video Blaster WebCam II (parallel or USB)
Digicom Galileo USB
Dynalink Digital Camera (USB)
Ezonics EZCam (USB - Note: not Pro or Plus)
Intel Play QX3 Microscope (USB)
Microtek EyeStar (USB)
Pace Colour Video Camera (USB)
SuperCam WonderEye (USB)
TCE Netcam 310 USB
Terracam USB (Note: not Pro)
Trust SpaceC@m Lite (USB)
Utobia USB Camera
ZoomCam (parallel or USB)
CVideo-Mail Express (parallel)
CU-SeeMe Cam Kit (parallel)
Digicom Galileo Plus (parallel)
For more information, see the CPiA webcam driver for
Linux site.
The following information is likely to be out of
date.
All cards with Bt848/Bt848a/Bt849/Bt878/Bt879 and normal
Composite/S-VHS inputs are supported. Teletext and Intercast
support (PAL only) via VBI samples decoding in software.
Adlink 7200 Digital I/O device
here
Adlink 7300A Digital I/O device
here
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
here
Data Translation DT3155
here
Diamond DTV2000 (based on Bt848)
Dipix XPG1000/FPG/PPMAPA (based on TI C40 DSP). Most
add-on cards are supported. here or here. The driver can be found at
here
Epix SVM
Epix Silicon Video MUX series of video frame grabbing boards
here
FAST Screen Machine II here
Hauppage Wincast TV PCI (based on Bt848) here
Imaging Technology ITI/IC-PCI here
ImageNation Cortex I
here
ImageNation CX100
here
ImageNation PX500
here
ImageNation PXC200
here
Imaging Technology Inc. IC-PCI frame grabber board
here
Matrix Vision MV-Delta
here
Matrox Meteor
here
Matrox PIP-1024
here
MaxiTV/PCI (based on ZR36120)
here
Miro PCTV (based on Bt848)
here
MuTech MV1000 PCI
here
MuTech MV200
here
Philips PCA10TV (not in production anymore)
here
Pinnacle PCTV (based on Bt848)
Pro Movie Studio
here
Quanta WinVision B&W video capture card
here
Quickcam
here
Nomadic Technologies Sensus 700
here
for common information. Alas, Nomadic Technologies has
removed the page about the Sensus 700.
Smart Video Recoder III (based on Bt848)
here
STB TV PCI Television Tuner (based on Bt848)
here
Tekram C210 (based on ZR36120)
here
Video Blaster, Rombo Media Pro+
here
VT1500 TV cards
here
28.7. Digital Camera Currently there are five programs which can be used in
combination with digital cameras.
Camediaplay ( here) You can download it from
here
Photopc ( here) It can be downloaded from
here
Qvplay ( here) It can be downloaded from
here
JCAM, a Java application which allows digital camera
owners to access and download pictures from a wide
variety of popular digital cameras
( here) It can be downloaded from
here
gPhoto ( here) It can be downloaded from
here
Photopc can be extended with a graphical Tk frontend. This can
be found at here. Also Qvplay cab be extended with
a graphical Tk frontend, which can be found at here
28.7.1. Supported Agfa ePhoto line of cameras (photopc,
camediaplay, JCAM)
Apple QuickTake 200 (JCAM)
Casio QV10, QV-10A, QV-11, QV-30, QV-70, QV-100,
QV-200, QV-300, QV-700, QV-770 (qvplay)
here
Casio QV-10A, QV-11, QV-30, QV-70, QV-100, QV-300,
QV-700, QV-770 (JCAM)
Chinon ES-1000 (same hardware, protocol and image
format as Kodak DC20) (JCAM)
here
Epson "Colorio Photo" CP-100 (PhotoPC)
(photopc, camediaplay)
here
Epson "Colorio Photo" CP-200 (PhotoPC 500)
(photopc, camediaplay, JCAM)
here
Epson "Colorio Photo" CP-200 (PhotoPC 550)
(JCAM)
Epson "Colorio Photo" CP-500 (PhotoPC 600)
(photopc, camediaplay, JCAM)
here
Epson "Colorio Photo" CP-500 (PhotoPC 700)
(JCAM)
Epson PhotoPC 550 (photopc, camediaplay)
here
Fuji DS-7, DX-5 (DS-10), DX-7 (DS-20), DX-9 (DS-30),
DS-300, MX-700 (JCAM)
HP Photo Smart Digital Camera (Some people say it
is supported, others say it isn't !!??)
Kodak DC-20, DC-25, DC-200/210 (JCAM)
here
Olympus C-300L, C-320L, C-420L, C-800L, C-840L,
C-1000L, C-1400L (JCAM)
here
Olympus "Camedia" C-400L (D-200L)
(photopc, camediaplay, JCAM)
here
Olympus "Camedia" C-820L (D-320L)
(photopc, camediaplay, JCAM)
here
Olympus C2000Z (photocd)
Sanyo VPC-G200/G200EX
(photopc, camediaplay)
here
Sanyo DSC-V1 (VPC-G200E)
(photopc, camediaplay)
here
Sanyo DSC-X1 (VPC-X300) (JCAM)
Sanyo DSC-X300 (photopc, camediaplay)
here
Nikon Coolpix 600/900 (Coolpix 600 untested)
(photopc)
here
and
here
Sierra Imaging SD640 (photopc)
here
Toshiba PDR-2 (not sure: photopc)
here
28.8. UPS Various other UPS's are supported, read the
UPS HOWTO or see the
Network UPS Tools
site (specifically their compatibility
list).
APC SmartUPS
here
APC-BackUPS 400/600, APC-SmartUPS SU700/1400RM
here
Fenton PowerPal
here
for downloads and manuals. Web site information can be
found at
here
Fenton Tele-UPS
here
for downloads and manuals. Web site information can be
found at
here
Fenton PowerOn
here
for downloads and manuals. Web site information can be
found at
here
UPS's with RS-232 monitoring port (genpower package)
here
MGE UPS's
here
and
here
A daemon to shut down and up computers connected to
ups's. It's network aware and allows server- and
client-mode
here
28.9. Multifunction boards
28.10. Data acquisition 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.
28.11. Watchdog timer interfaces Berkshire Products PC Watchdog Card (ISA cards rev. A
and C) Check
here
for the PC Watchdog program. A driver is included in
recent kernels. More information on this product can be
found at
here
ICS WDT500-P
here
ICS WDT501-P (with and without fan tachometer)
here
Outsource Engineering & Manufacturing Inc. Basic
Watchdog Timer Board (ISA) Information can be found at
here. Drivers currently running on
2.0.29, 2.0.33 and 2.0.36 kernels
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