Fedora Hardware Compatibility...

[Uchujin T.]

Hi.. I was hoping that someone could point me towards the right direction...

I'm planning on building roughly 20 computers to run FC6 (or Fedora 7 when 
it comes out)
I understand there are certain hardware compatibility issues, ie. graphic 
cards, sound cards, etc.
Is there some kind of a list with 'Fedora-safe' hardware I could use when 
shopping for parts?

I'm currently running FC6 on an iMactel and have had some trouble with 
various things like 3d acceleration, wireless, isight, etc. but I understand 
it wouldn't be quite this difficult if I wasn't using the iMac. I just want 
to be extra careful before spending what little money I have. ^_^ And I 
would really love to have 3d acceleration working on all machines!

Any comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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[Chitlesh GOORAH]

On 3/1/07, Ryan Li wrote:
> Any comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

For 3D acceleration with nvidia you will need the proprietary driver.

Perhaps you might be interested to see the results of the newly borned
fedora project "smolt":

http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/stats

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Smolt

regards,
Chitlesh

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 10:45:31 +0100,
  Chitlesh GOORAH  wrote:
> On 3/1/07, Ryan Li wrote:
> > Any comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
>
> For 3D acceleration with nvidia you will need the proprietary driver.

That is a bit misleading. If you want the latest and greatest consumer
video cards, than that would be a defendable position.

However, you can get 3d accelleration using open source drivers on intel
chipsets and ATI cards that are a generation old (r200, r300 and r400 with
the r300/r400 driver being relatively new).

[Uchujin T.]

Thanks. I had a look at Smolt. It's interesting!

But I would really be interested in knowing what graphic cards all of you 
guys are using.
I would like to know which ones are definitely working without any problems 
with 3d acceleration.
Do all of them require editing the xorg.conf file? or do some work straight 
out of the box?

And if you are using a webcam, which brand is it? I would think that there 
are only a few that work.

Also, I'm planning on using touch screens with all the computers. I guess 
I'm what you'd call a newbie to this... I was reading something about 
Elotouch Technology. Do all touch screens work assuming you have the correct 
drivers? I noticed there were specific ones for WIN/Mac/Linux...

Once again, any comments would be greatly appreciated~

Thanks again!
> On 3/1/07, Ryan wrote:
> > Any comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
>
> For 3D acceleration with nvidia you will need the proprietary driver.
>
> Perhaps you might be interested to see the results of the newly borned
> fedora project "smolt":
>
> http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/stats
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Smolt
>
> regards,
> Chitlesh
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> http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

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[Jeff G]

On 3/1/07, Ryan Li  wrote:
> Thanks. I had a look at Smolt. It's interesting!
>
> But I would really be interested in knowing what graphic cards all of you
> guys are using.
> I would like to know which ones are definitely working without any problems
> with 3d acceleration.
> Do all of them require editing the xorg.conf file? or do some work straight
> out of the box?
>
> And if you are using a webcam, which brand is it? I would think that there
> are only a few that work.
>
> Also, I'm planning on using touch screens with all the computers. I guess
> I'm what you'd call a newbie to this... I was reading something about
> Elotouch Technology. Do all touch screens work assuming you have the correct
> drivers? I noticed there were specific ones for WIN/Mac/Linux...
>
> Once again, any comments would be greatly appreciated~
>
> Thanks again!
> > On 3/1/07, Ryan wrote:
> > > Any comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
> >
> > For 3D acceleration with nvidia you will need the proprietary driver.
> >
> > Perhaps you might be interested to see the results of the newly borned
> > fedora project "smolt":
> >
> > http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/stats
> >
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Smolt
> >
> > regards,
> > Chitlesh
> > --
> > http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

I'm also interested in touch-screens, so please post (or private
email) other things you find.

Thanks,

Jeff

[Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail]

On 3/2/07, Ryan Li  wrote:
> But I would really be interested in knowing what graphic cards all of you
> guys are using.
> I would like to know which ones are definitely working without any problems
> with 3d acceleration.
> Do all of them require editing the xorg.conf file? or do some work straight
> out of the box?
> [snip]

Most Intel cards work out of the box considering Intel opensourced their driver

[Valent Turkovic]

Intel graphics on all laptops works great with any linux distro!

On 3/3/07, Hikaru Amano  wrote:
> On 3/2/07, Ryan Li  wrote:
> > But I would really be interested in knowing what graphic cards all of you
> > guys are using.
> > I would like to know which ones are definitely working without any problems
> > with 3d acceleration.
> > Do all of them require editing the xorg.conf file? or do some work straight
> > out of the box?
> > [snip]
>
> Most Intel cards work out of the box considering Intel opensourced their driver
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