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# 28. Other hardware

## 28.1. 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:

- Carrol Touch serial touch screen here

- EloGraphics

- Lucas Deeco

- MicroTouch

## 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The following is outdated.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.

- Joystick driver For information check here. An FTP archive can be found at here.

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

- Gamepads with 6 and 8 buttons

- Genius Flight2000 Digital F-23 ( here)

- Gravis Blackhawk Digital

- Gravis GamePad Pro

- Gravis Xterminator GamePad

- Logitech CyberMan 2 ( here)

- Logitech ThunderPad Digital

- Logitech WingMan Extreme Digital ( here)

- MadCatz Panther

- MadCatz Panther XL

- Microsoft SideWinder 3D Pro

- Microsoft SideWinder Force Feedback Pro

- Microsoft SideWinder GamePad

- Microsoft SideWinder Precision Pro

- 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:

- Proteus Pro (Philips reference design)

- LifeView FlyVIDEO3000

- LifeView FlyVIDEO2000

- EMPRESS

- SKNet Monster TV

- Tevion MD 9717

- KNC One TV-Station RDS

- Terratec Cinergy 400 TV

- Medion 5044

- Kworld/KuroutoShikou SAA7130-TVPCI

- Terratec Cinergy 600 TV

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

### 28.7.2. Unsupported

- Casio QV-120, QV-5000SX, QV-7000SX

- Kodak DC40, DC50, DC120

## 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 (Web site information can be found here)

- Fenton Tele-UPS (Web site information can be found here)

- Fenton PowerOn (Web site information can be found 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

- Pro Audio Spectrum 16 SCSI / Sound interface card

## 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.

- Linux Lab Project here

- 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` >

## 28.11. Watchdog timer interfaces

- Berkshire Products PC Watchdog Card (ISA cards rev. A and C) - A driver is included in recent kernels. More information on this product can be found at here

- ICS WDT500-P

- ICS WDT501-P (with and without fan tachometer)

- Outsource Engineering & Manufacturing Inc. Basic Watchdog Timer Board (ISA)

## 28.12. Miscellaneous

- Mattel Powerglove

- AIMS Labs RadioTrack FM radio card here

- Reveal FM Radio card here

- Videotext cards here

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