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<LI>Microsoft serial mouse



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<LI>Mouse Systems serial mouse



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<LI>Logitech Mouseman serial mouse



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<LI>Logitech serial mouse



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<LI>ATI XL Inport bus mouse



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<LI>C&amp;T 82C710 (QuickPort) (Toshiba, TI Travelmate)



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<LI>Microsoft bus mouse



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<LI>Logitech bus mouse



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<LI>PS/2 (auxiliary device) mouse



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<LI>Sejin J-mouse



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<LI>MultiMouse (use multiple mouse devices as single mouse)



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<P>Pad devices like Glidepoint also work, as long they're compatible with another mouse protocol. Newer Logitech mice (except the Mouseman) use the Microsoft protocol and all three buttons do work. Even though Microsoft's mouses have only two buttons, the protocol allows three buttons.



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<P>The mouse port on the ATI Graphics Ultra and Ultra Pro uses the Logitech bus mouse protocol.



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<P>Linux supports any standard serial/parallel/joystick/IDE combo cards. Linux also supports 8250, 16450, 16550, and 16550A UARTs. For more information on UARTs, see National Semiconductor's Application Note AN-493 by Martin S.Michael. Section 5.0 describes in detail the differences between the NS16550 and NS16550A. Briefly, the NS16550 had bugs in the FIFO circuits, but the NS16550A (and later) chips fixed those bugs. National produced very few NS16550s, however, so these chips should be very rare. Many of the 16550 parts in modern boards are from the many manufacturers of compatible parts, which may not use the National A suffix. Also, some multiport boards use 16552 or 16554 or various other multiport or multifunction chips from National or other suppliers (generally in a dense package soldered to the board, not a 40-pin DIP). Mostly, don't worry about it unless you encounter a very old 40-pin DIP National NS16550 (no A) chip loose or in an old board; in this case, treat it as a 16450 (no FIFO) rather than a 16550A.



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<P>The following multiport cards are supported by Linux (some require drivers from the manufacturers):



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<LI>AST FourPort and clones



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<LI>Accent Async-4



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<LI>Bell Technologies HUB6



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<LI>Boca BB-1004, 1008 (4, 8 port) (no DTR, DSR, and CD)



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<LI>Boca BB-2016 (16 port)



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<LI>Boca IO/AT66 (6 port)



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<LI>Boca IO 2by4 (4S/2P) (works with modems, but uses 5 IRQ's)



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<LI>Comtrol RocketPort (8/16/32 port)



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<LI>Cyclades Cyclom-8Y/16Y (8, 16 port)



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<LI>DigiBoard COM/Xi



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<LI>DigiBoard PC/Xe (ISA) and PC/Xi (EISA)



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<LI>PC-COMM 4-port



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<LI>Specialix SIO/XIO (modular, 4 to 32 ports)



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<LI>Stallion EasyIO (ISA) / EasyConnection 8/32 (ISA/MCA)



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<LI>Stallion EasyConnection 8/64 / ONboard (ISA/EISA/MCA) / Brumby /



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<LI>Stallion (ISA)STB 4-COM



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<LI>Twincom ACI/550



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<LI>Usenet Serial Board II



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<P>Linux supports the following sound cards (although not all will have full functionality):



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<LI>6850 UART MIDI



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<LI>Adlib (OPL2)



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<LI>Audio Excell DSP16



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<LI>Aztech Sound Galaxy NX Pro



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<LI>ECHO-PSS cards (Orchid SoundWave32, Cardinal DSP16)



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<LI>Ensoniq SoundScape



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<LI>Gravis Ultrasound



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<LI>Gravis Ultrasound 16-bit sampling daughterboard



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<LI>Gravis Ultrasound MAX



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<LI>Logitech SoundMan Games (SBPro, 44kHz stereo support)



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<LI>Logitech SoundMan Wave (Jazz16/OPL4)



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<LI>Logitech SoundMan 16 (PAS-16 compatible)



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<LI>MPU-401 MIDI



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<LI>MediaTriX AudioTriX Pro



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<LI>Media Vision Premium 3D (Jazz16)



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<LI>Media Vision Pro Sonic 16 (Jazz)



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<LI>Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum 16



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<LI>Microsoft Sound System (AD1848)



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<LI>OAK OTI-601D cards (Mozart)



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<LI>OPTi 82C928/82C929 cards (MAD16/MAD16 Pro)



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<LI>Sound Blaster



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<LI>Sound Blaster Pro



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<LI>Sound Blaster 16 family



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<LI>Wave Blaster (and other SB16 daughterboards)



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<P>The ASP chip on Sound Blaster 16 series and AWE32 is not supported. AWE32's on-board MIDI synthesizer is not supported. These two things will probably never be supported. Sound Blaster 16's with DSP 4.11 and 4.12 have a hardware bug that causes hung/stuck notes when playing MIDI and digital audio at the same time. The problem happens with either Wave Blaster daughterboards or MIDI devices attached to the MIDI port. There is no known fix for this problem.



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<P>Linux supports the following types of CD-ROM drives:



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<LI>SCSI CD-ROM drives (Any SCSI CD-ROM drive with a block size of 512 or 2048 bytes should work under Linux, which includes the vast majority of CD-ROM drives on the market.)



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<LI>Aztech CDA268, Orchid CDS-3110, Okano/Wearnes CDD-110



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<LI>GoldStar R420



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<LI>LMS Philips CM 206



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<LI>Matsushita/Panasonic, Kotobuki (SBPCD)



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<LI>Mitsumi



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<LI>Optics Storage Dolphin 8000AT



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<LI>Sanyo H94A



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<LI>Sony CDU31A/CDU33A



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<LI>Sony CDU-535/CDU-531



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<LI>Teac CD-55A SuperQuad



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<P>PhotoCD (XA) is also supported. All CD-ROM drives should work similarly for reading data. Various compatibility problems exist with utilities that play audio CDs. Early (single-speed) NEC CD-ROM drives may have trouble with currently available SCSI controllers.



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<P>Linux supports the following types of tape drives:



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<LI>SCSI tape drives (Drives using both fixed and variable length blocks smaller than the driver buffer length, which are set to 32K in the distribution sources, are supported. Virtually all drives should work.)



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<LI>QIC-117, QIC-40/80 drives



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<P>Most tape drives using the floppy controller should work. Various dedicated QIC-80 controllers (Colorado FC-10, Iomega Tape Controller II) are also supported.



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<P>Drives that connect to the parallel port (such as the Colorado Trakker) are not supported. Also, some high-speed tape controllers (Colorado TC-15 / FC-20, Irwin AX250L/Accutrak 250, IBM Internal Tape Backup Unit, and COREtape Light) are not supported.



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<P>All internal modems or external modems connected to the serial port are supported. A small number of modems come with DOS software that downloads the control program at runtime. You can normally use these modems by loading the program under DOS and doing a warm boot. Such modems are probably best avoided because you won't be able to use them with non-PC hardware in the future. PCMCIA modems should work with the PCMCIA drivers. Fax modems <A NAME="I2"></A>need appropriate fax software to operate.