This is sort of a question, … but perhaps more a plea/rant, asking for some technical contributions, that members of all skill levels and experience can help out in. Hence this may (or may not) belong in the chat area.
Anyway …
The openSUSE Hardware Compatibility List needs your help in updating that list. It is in wiki format, and can be found here: Hardware - openSUSE
I’ve lost count of the number of occasions I have read of openSUSE users with success stories in installing openSUSE on PCs with peripherals either not mentioned, or not updated (for openSUSE-11.0) in the HCL.
Especially with openSUSE-11.1 about to descend on us, it would be really nice to see the wiki updated to reflect the compatibility with openSUSE-11.0.
I don’t want to be the village nag on each post I see, but it would benefit our entire community, if everyone took a few minutes of their time and update the wiki.
If one HATES updating wiki’s, then please either PM me, or post here what you want to update in the wiki, and I’ll gladly do the update for you, and then have you review the update, to ensure I put inside the wiki what you intended.
I was planning on doing this last week for my three PC’s, but could not figure out how to add anything. I felt stupid, but it seemed to be over my head. I would be glad to send you my info, or maybe send me in the direction of a tutorial for wiki editing;)
BUT in the case of the HCL, the wiki has already been started. One just needs to edit the exiting wiki.
Still, editing a wiki is definitely NOT for everyone.
Send me the information on your PCs (trying to provide the info wrt the various columns or typicall information you see in the HCL) and I’ll update the HCL sections for you.
Here is my stuff that is not already in the HCL list. I am afraid to try it just yet. I will practice editing on the wiki for future use.
Laptop:
HP Pavilion dv6815nr version 10.3/11.0 32bit
Video= Yes(Nvidia GeForce 7150 with nvidia driver, uses vesa by default)
Sound= Yes(Internal Mic doesn't work)
Ethernet= Yes
Wireless= Yes(Atheros AR5007eg works with ndiswrapper, or latest madwifi driver)
Bluetooth= N/A
Power Management= Yes(Hibernate and suspend do not work)
Other= 1) Put acpi_osi="Linux" as boot option to have thermal trip points and temps recognized
2)Conexant HSF modem works with Linuxant driver
3)Remote works
Desktops:
HP Pavilion m8100n version 10.3/11.0 32bit
Video= Yes(Nvidia GeForce 6150 with nvidia driver, uses vesa by default)
Sound= Yes
Ethernet= Yes
Wireless- N/A
Bluetooth= N/A
Power Management= Yes(Suspend and hibernate work perfectly)
Other= 1)Put acpi_osi="Linux" as boot option to have thermal trip points, fan and temps recognized
2)Conexant HSF modem works with Linuxant driver
Dell Dimension E521 version 10.3/11.0 32bit
Video= Yes(Nvidia GeForce 7300 with nvidia driver, uses nv by default)
Sound= Yes
Ethernet= Yes
Wireless= N/A
Bluetooth= N/A
Power Management= Yes(Suspend and hibernate work perfectly)
Other= 1)Conexant HSF modem works with Linuxant driver
CD and DVD Writer/Readers versions 10.3/11.0:
TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-L632N Yes/Yes
TS-DT-ST CDR/DVD GCCH10N Yes/Yes
Sony DVD-ROM DDU1615S Yes/Yes
Printers:
HP PSC 1510= Autodetected/USB Port version 10.3/11.0
HP Deskjet 5550= Autodetected/USB Port/10.3/11.0
Scanner:
HP PSC 1510= Autodetected/USB Port version 10.3/11.0
Nvidia Video Card:
Nvidia 7150M Autodetected/3D Support version 10.3/11.0(not supported by nv, uses vesa by default, 3D support is fine with nvidia driver)
OK 67GTA, thanks for the input. I’ve updated the wiki, adding your entries. Many thanks. If you wish to change any thing I entered, please let me know, or simply go modify it yourself. Many thanks again.
version: openSUSE 11.0
Laptop
Dell Inspiron 1520
Video= Yes(Nvidia GeForce 8600m GT with nvidia driver, uses nv by default)
Sound= Yes
Ethernet= Yes
Wireless = Yes
Bluetooth= Yes
Webcam = No
Dell keys = works under KDE 3.5.9
Power Management= Yes(Suspends to Disk and RAM, but doesnt resume)
Didn’t know about this thread, but I just added a Dell Latitude to the HCL. I agree whole heartedly that we should be doing our best to add our own hardware to the HCL and keep it updated! If you solve a longtime problem with some feature on your machine, take a little bit of time to post it to your listing on the HCL. Although I think the method of listing could use an overhaul. The only way I could find was to edit the page, copy someone else’s listing (unless you understand the markup), and change it to suit my needs. Maybe there is a “righter” way but that’s all I could find.
Acer Aspire 5720z out of the box since version 11.1
VampirD
Microsoft Windows is like air conditioning
Stops working when you open a window.
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I have just stumbled across this and would have to say that it is a great idea, especially if you are about to build or buy a new system. However, I would like to make one point and one suggestion:
Point: the links in the earlier posts are now invalid, the URL for the OpenSuSE HCL is Portal:Hardware - openSUSE](http://en.opensuse.org/HCL).
This takes you to a page showing various categories of component; clicking on one of them will take you to the detail for that category (e.g. HCL:Motherboards - openSUSE](http://en.opensuse.org/HCL:Motherboards))
Suggestion: for the inexperienced (i.e. me), it might be worthwhile giving details as to how best they can extract and interpret the relevant information (e.g. dmidecode - lshal - lshw - lscpu - lspci - lsusb - lsscsi - systool - fdisk - cpuinfo - meminfo - etc.)
Incidentally, lshw (which seems from the relevant website page to be a neat tool) appears not to be included in OpenSuSE 11.3. If I could work out how to install it, I would do so, post the details here and update the lshw wiki which mentions many other distros - sadly I haven’t been able to do so yet
surv1v0r wrote:
> Point: the links in the earlier posts are now invalid, the URL for
> the OpenSuSE HCL is ‘Portal:Hardware - openSUSE’
> (http://en.opensuse.org/HCL).
you are correct…unfortunately the Wiki Team cut over to a new
version of the wiki in mid-July and BROKE the established links to
thousands of pages…
> Suggestion: for the inexperienced (i.e. me), it might be worthwhile
> giving details as to how best they can extract and interpret the
> relevant information (e.g. dmidecode - lshal - lshw - lscpu - lspci -
> lsusb - lsscsi - systool - fdisk - cpuinfo - meminfo - etc.)
did you read the part on that page (you noted above) saying “The
easiest way is to use Smolt that will automatically pick up hardware
information…” does Smolt actually not do the hardware detection
automatically and leaves you to manually do it with all the tools you
name just above?
please note, that info shows mostly “works out of the box” but includes six question marks with “I don’t use this/I don’t know” for some bridges, ports and controllers that i just have no idea if i’m using or not! if anyone knows that i must be using those, then i have to assume they also work out of the box, and will change the smolt page if so needed…
thanks…(i would edit the wiki if i could do it in html, but doing it in wiki-lingo is a non-starter for me…sorry)
