Linux Hardware Info

Some personal experience about hardware suitable for running linux on.

Complete Systems

Custom Systems

Asus Strix X99 Gaming based system.
Intel NUC D34010WYKH miniature Ubuntu desktop attached via DisplayPort to a Sharp LL-S201A ten-point multitouch 1080p display.
Asus P7P55LX based system.
Asus P8Z77-V based system.
SuperMicro X8DTN+ based system a 4U server with 24 drive bays.

Graphics Cards

ATI Radeon X800
nVidia 5200 (PCI)
nVidia GeForce 9800 GTX+ (PCI Express)
nVidia GTX Titan and my system's highly-unbalanced 3dmark attempt.

Mice

Razer Death Adder how to adjust the acceleration sensitivity on Ubuntu 14.04.02LTS.

Sound Cards

Creative Labs Soundblaster Audigy 2

USB 3.0 PCIe Cards

Inatek 6-port USB 3.0 PCIe card

SCSI Adapter Cards

SAS and SATA Controller Cards (non-RAID)

IBM M1015 Cross-flashing an IBM M1015 to make it think that it's an LSI Logic 9211.8i in Initiator Target (IT) mode with the P16 firmware and no BIOS bootup delay (i.e. without the "option ROM" firmware), so that it can be used in FreeNAS 9.3 hopefully. See here for my guide to setting up your ZFS pool, and why to choose ZFS mirroring for your pool (in preference to any of the other ZFS redundancy features).

Hard Drives

Western Digital easystore 8TB external hard drive - what is inside?

FireWire cards

The SYBA Model SD-PEX-FWB PCI Express 1394 FireWire cards use the Texas Instruments TSB82AA2 chip, and provide two 1394b (800Mbps) and one 1394a (400Mbps) FireWire ports. Work OK in Ubuntu Jaunty. Update: unreliable with more recent kernels, Lucid and Maverick give occasional apparently-random disconnects and resets.

Firewire Audio Interfaces

Tascam FW-1082 (NOT supported by Linux FFADO).

eSATA cards

Untested (the one I got was dead, didn't even show up in lspci): The ADSA3GPX8-4E-4PORT uses a SiI 3124 chipset. Reading here, it uses libata's sata_sil24 driver, and Silicon Image provided Garzik with docs and sample hardware.

Printers

Minolta Magicolor 2300DL

Non-Linux Devices

Camera: Kodak V1253
Synthesizer: Kurzweil K2500RS
Laptop (Feb 2011): Apple MacBook Pro A1297
Keykoard (Oct 2014): Razer Deathstalker Ultimate elite gaming keyboard

Bluetooth

Sony Remote with USB Bluetooth
Apple Magic Trackpad via bluetooth using AZIO BTD-V201.

Ubuntu on Dell

Ubuntu Has Arrived By Popular Demand -- Dell are listening to their customers, and are now offering Ubuntu pre-installed. How's that for convenience? Although Dell are clearly on the right path, they appear to be somewhat confused about the details: for the desktop system, the video card is unfortunately still not supported by Ubuntu (proprietary drivers are required, as it's an nVidia card). Also, the description of the operating system for the desktop system as "Ubuntu with DVD playback" instead of simply "Ubuntu with an additional proprietary package" should be better explained. The picture included alongside the description "Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio" is also confusing, as it looks remarkably like a separate Creative Labs PCI card.

eInk readers

Amazon Kindle DX 9.7 Graphite (runs linux, has free 3G but no wifi, 4GB space, works pretty well for reading pdf).
Sony "Digital Paper" DPT-S1
ONYX BOOX Max Carta 13.3" eInk

Media Players

iRiver iHP-120 with Compact Flash modification