4.3. Hardware

Hardware-HOWTO, Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO

Updated: September 2001. Lists most of the hardware supported by Linux and helps you locate any necessary drivers.

Unix-Hardware-Buyer-HOWTO, The Unix Hardware Buyer HOWTO

Updated: August 2001. This is your one-stop resource for information about how to buy and configure Intel hardware for cheap, powerful Unix systems.

4mb-Laptops, 4mb Laptop HOWTO

Updated: April 2000. Put a "grown-up" Linux on a small-spec (4mb RAM, <=200mb hard disk) laptop.

Acer-Laptop-HOWTO, Linux Installation on an Acer LapTop HOWTO

Updated: January 2001. Describes the inatllation of Linux on a Acer laptop and various issues related to this.

Cluster-HOWTO, Linux Cluster HOWTO

Updated: August 2001. How to set up high-performance Linux computing clusters.

Diskless-HOWTO, Diskless Nodes HOWTO for Linux

Updated: June 2001. How to set up a diskless Linux box.

Diskless-root-NFS-HOWTO, Root over nfs clients & server HOWTO

Updated: March 1999. How to setup a server and configure clients for diskless operation from a network.

Handspring-Visor, Handspring-Visor mini-HOWTO

Updated: August 2000. Using the Visor with Linux and your USB port.

HP-HOWTO, HP HOWTO - Utilisation and Configuration Guide of HP Products under Linux

Updated: March 2001. Describes the use of products available in the Hewlett-Packard (HP) catalog with Linux and some free software.

IBM7248-HOWTO, Installing LinuxPPC-2000 on the IBM RS/6000 43P model 7248 HOWTO

Updated: August 2001. Describes the installation of LinuxPPC-2000 on the IBM RS/6000 43P model 7248 series.

JavaStation-HOWTO, Linux on the Sun JavaStation NC HOWTO

Updated: May 2001. Describes how to enable the GNU/Linux OS on the Sun JavaStation NC.

Kiosk-HOWTO, Kiosk HOWTO

Updated: October 1999. Provides a guide for setting up a WWW-based kiosk using Linux, X11R6, FVWM2, Netscape Navigator 4.X, and a customized trackball.

Laptop-HOWTO, Linux Laptop HOWTO

Updated: November 2000. Contains a concise survey of laptop-related (Linux content) documents, such as installation methods for laptops (via PCMCIA, without CD drive, etc.), laptop hardware features, and configurations for different (network) environments.

Mac-Terminal, The MacTerminal mini-HOWTO

Updated: November 1997. How to configure the Mac for use as a Linux terminal.

NC-HOWTO, Linux Netstation HOWTO

Updated: November 2000. Describes how to hook up a IBM Netstation to your local network using a Linux box as server.

NCD-HOWTO, Linux NCD mini-HOWTO

Updated: September 1999. Describes how to hook up a NCD ThinSTAR to your local network using a Linux box as server.

NCD-X-Terminal, NCD X terminal mini HOWTO

Updated: March 2000. How to connect an NCD X terminal to a UNIX host.

PalmOS-HOWTO, Palm OS Desktop HOWTO

Updated: February 1999. Explains how to use your Palm OS device with a Linux system.

Psion-HOWTO, Linux and Psion HOWTO

Updated: November 1999. How to use Psion palmtops with Linux. Does not cover running Linux on a Psion palmtop.

Text-Terminal-HOWTO, Text-Terminal HOWTO

Updated: August 2001. Explains what text terminals are, how they work, how to install and configure them, and provides some info on how to repair them.

Thinclient-HOWTO, Thin Client: New User Guide

Updated: November 1999. How to turn inexpensive legacy computers into fast terminals.

VAIO+Linux, Linux on Sony VAIO mini-HOWTO

Updated: September 1998. This document explains installation of Linux on Sony VAIO computers.

VME-HOWTO, VME HOWTO

Updated: June 2001. Shows the embedded system community how to run Linux on their VMEbus Pentium and other PCI local bus based VMEbus processor designs.

Wearable-HOWTO, Wearable HOWTO

Updated: November 2000. Nomadism is one of the major trends of our society, now most of the people can work with a laptop computer, but few did the next step: to live, or if you prefer to wear one computer - that is a wearable.

3Dfx-HOWTO, The Linux 3Dfx HOWTO

Updated: February 1998. Describes 3Dfx graphics accelerator chip support for Linux.

Framebuffer-HOWTO, Framebuffer HOWTO

Updated: February 2000. How to use the framebuffer devices in Linux with a variety of platforms. Also includes how to set up multi-headed displays.

i810-HOWTO, i810 with XFree86 4.x HOWTO

Updated: May 2001. Describes getting XFree86 4.x running on Intel's i810 graphics chipset by using special features of the 2.4.0 kernel.

Nvidia-OpenGL-Configuration, Nvidia OpenGL Configuration mini-HOWTO

Updated: March 2001. How to install the OpenGL drivers for Nvidia graphics cards on Linux. Also explains how to install XFree86, the OpenGL Utility library (part of Mesa), the OpenGL Utility Toolkit (glut), etc.

Alpha-HOWTO, Brief Introduction to Alpha Systems and Processors

Updated: June 1997. A brief overview of existing Alpha CPUs, chipsets and systems.

CPU-Design-HOWTO, CPU Design HOW-TO

Updated: June 2001. Helps people understand how a CPU is designed and manufactured. Contains references to various resources.

MIPS-HOWTO, Linux/MIPS HOWTO

Updated: January 2001. Describes the MIPS port of the Linux operating system, common problems and their solutions, availability and more.

SPARC-HOWTO, SPARC-HOWTO

Updated: November 2000. Describes Linux on SPARC-based workstations.

CD-Writing-HOWTO, CD-Writing HOWTO

Updated: July 2000. Explains how to write CD-ROMs under Linux.

CDROM-HOWTO, The Linux CD-ROM HOWTO

Updated: May 2001. How to install, configure, and use CD-ROM drives under Linux.

DVD-Playing-HOWTO, DVD Playing HOWTO

Updated: June 2000. A easy to follow explanation on how to get DVD movie play-back in Linux.

Optical-Disk-HOWTO, Linux - Optical Disk HOWTO

Updated: December 1998. Describes the installation and configuration of optical disk drives for Linux.

Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO, The Linux keyboard and console HOWTO

Updated: February 1998. Contains some information about the Linux (v2.0) keyboard and console, and the use of non-ASCII characters.

BackspaceDelete, Linux Backspace/Delete mini-HOWTO

Updated: May 2001. Solutions for having working Backspace and Delete keys on the console and on X.

Intkeyb, How to setup international keyboard in X Windows

Updated: July 2001. This xmodmap and kimap solutions will work for you in setting up any international keyboard for (Debian, RedHat, Mandrake, Corel) Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and possibly every Unix that uses Xfree86 and KDE.

Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO, Remote Serial Console HOWTO

Updated: March 2001. Covers how to set up your hardware to use a serial console.

Kodak-Digitalcam-HOWTO, Kodak Digital Camera HOWTO

Updated: January 2001. Getting a Kodak digital camera working under GNU/Linux.

Wacom-Tablet-HOWTO, Wacom Tablet HOWTO

Updated: August 2001. Installation of (not only) Wacom graphic tablets under linux and/or xfree86.

Wacom-USB-mini-HOWTO, Wacom Graphire USB Mini-HOWTO

Updated: June 2000. How to setup a Wacom Graphire USB tablet for use with Linux.

Automount, Automount mini-HOWTO

Updated: April 1999. Describes the autofs automounter, how to configure it; points out some problems to avoid.

Antares-RAID-sparcLinux-HOWTO, Antares-RAID-sparcLinux-HOWTO

Updated: April 2000. Describes how to install, configure, and maintain a hardware RAID built around the 5070 SBUS host based RAID controller by Antares Microsystems.

DPT-Hardware-RAID, Linux DPT Hardware RAID mini-HOWTO

Updated: February 2001. How to set up hardware RAID under Linux.

Hard-Disk-Upgrade, Hard Disk Upgrade Mini HOWTO

Updated: April 2000. How to copy a Linux system from one hard disk to another.

Large-Disk-HOWTO, Large Disk HOWTO

Updated: March 2001. All about disk geometry and the 1024 cylinder limit for disks.

Multi-Disk-HOWTO, HOWTO: Multi Disk System Tuning

Updated: July 2000. How best to use multiple disks and partitions for a Linux system.

Ultra-DMA, The Linux Ultra-DMA Mini-Howto

Updated: November 1999. How to use Ultra-DMA aka Ultra-ATA aka Ultra33 and Ultra66 hard drives and interfaces with Linux.

Jaz-Drive-HOWTO, Jaz-drive HOWTO

Updated: January 2000. Covers the configuration and use of the 1Gb and 2Gb Iomega Jaz drives under Linux.

ZIP-Drive, Zip Drive Mini-HOWTO

Updated: January 1999. Provides a quick reference quide on setting up and using the Iomega ZIP drive with Linux.

ZIP-Install, Installing Linux on ZIP disk using ppa ZIP Drive Mini-Howto

Updated: January 1998. This document is only useful for those with the printer port version of a ZIP drive who wish to have either a portable or backup Linux system on a ZIP disk.

3-Button-Mouse, The 3 Button Serial Mouse mini-HOWTO

Updated: May 1998. How to get a 3 button serial mouse working properly under Linux.

ACP-Modem, Linux ACP Modem (Mwave) mini-HOWTO

Updated: July 2001. Describes how to build, setup, and use the ACP (Mwave) Modem feature of the IBM Thinkpad[tm] 600E, 600, and 770x.

Cable-Modem, Cable Modem Providers HOWTO

Updated: June 2001. Answers basic questions on how to connect your Linux box to cable modem or cable Internet provider.

Conexant+Rockwell-modem-HOWTO, Conexant/Rockwell modem HOWTO

Updated: August 2001. A guide to using Conexant and Rockwell chipset based Software modems under Linux.

Linmodem-HOWTO, Linmodem-Mini-HOWTO

Updated: February 2001. Describes Linmodem (winmodem hardware) support under Linux.

Linux-Modem-Sharing Modem sharing mini-HOWTO

Updated: August 2001. Describes how to setup a Linux system in order to share a modem attached to this system with other systems over a TCP/IP network.

Modem-HOWTO, Modem HOWTO

Updated: August 2001. Help with selecting, connecting, configuring, trouble-shooting, and understanding modems for a PC.

Modem-Dialup-NT-HOWTO, Modem-Dialup-NT HOW-TO

Updated: September 2001. Helps you to setup a modem to do Dial-up Networking with a remote server like Windows NT RAS or Linux RAS (Remote Access Server).

Winmodems-and-Linux-HOWTO, Winmodems-and-Linux HOWTO

Updated: April 2001. Helps users get a Winmodem working under Linux.

SCSI-2.4-HOWTO, The Linux SCSI subsystem in 2.4 HOWTO

Updated: August 2001. Describes the SCSI subsystem as the Linux kernel enters the 2.4 production series. An external view of the SCSI subsystem is the main theme. Material is included to help the system administration of the Linux SCSI subsystem.

SCSI-Programming-HOWTO, The Linux SCSI programming HOWTO

Updated: May 1996. Deals with programming the Linux generic SCSI interface.

Serial-HOWTO, Serial HOWTO

Updated: August 2001. Describes serial port features other than those which should be covered by other HOWTOs. Lists information on multiport serial cards and contains detailed technical information about the serial port itself.

Boca, Installing Boca Card Mini-HOWTO

Updated: January 2001. Describes the basics of a Boca 16-port serial card (Boca 2016) with Linux.

Serial-Laplink-HOWTO, Serial Laplink HOWTO

Updated: July 2001. Details how to setup a “laplink” connection between two computers.

Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO, Remote Serial Console HOWTO

Updated: March 2001. Covers how to set up your hardware to use a serial console.

Soundblaster-AWE, Sound Blaster AWE 32/64 HOWTO

Updated: January 1998. How to install and configure a Sound Blaster 32 (SB AWE 32, SB AWE 64) card from Creative Labs in a Linux System using the AWE Sound Driver Extension written by Takashi Iwai. It also covers some special tools and players for the SB AWE series.

Ftape-HOWTO, Ftape HOWTO

Updated: August 1998. Discusses essential do's and dont's for the ftape floppy tape driver under Linux. Focuses on the newest version (ftape-4.02 at the time of this writing).

XFree86-Touch-Screen-HOWTO, Linux Touch Screen HOWTO

Updated: October 2000. How to set up a touch screen input device under XFree86.

UPS-HOWTO, The UPS HOWTO

Updated: November 1997. Helps you connect an uninterruptable power supply to a Linux box.

Wireless-HOWTO, Wireless HOWTO for Linux Systems

Updated: January 2001. Document explains how to setup Wireless in Linux, compatibility problems, something about geographic requirements and more.

Infrared-HOWTO, Linux Infrared HOWTO

Updated: April 2001. Introduction to Linux and infrared devices and how to use the software provided by the Linux/IrDA project.

Clock, The Clock Mini-HOWTO

Updated: November 2000. How to set and keep your computer's clock on time.

MP3-Box-HOWTO, MP3 Player Box HOWTO

Updated: April 2001. Describes how to build, configure, install, and use a custom MP3 player box. It lists the necessary hardware and answers a number of frequently asked questions.

PCI-HOWTO, Linux PCI-HOWTO

Updated: June 2001. Information on what works with Linux and PCI-boards and what does not.

PCMCIA-HOWTO, Linux PCMCIA HOWTO

Updated: May 2001. How to install and use PCMCIA Card Services for Linux.

Plug-and-Play-HOWTO, The Linux Plug-and-Play HOWTO

Updated: August 2001. How to get your Linux system to support Plug-and-Play.

VCR-HOWTO, VCR-HOWTO - Using your GNU/Linux computer as a VCR

Updated: July 2001. A guide to setting up your GNU/Linux workstation as a digital VCR using the video4linux driver and a supported tuner card.