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
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.
The Metro-X X-server is supporting the following touch screen controllers:
Carrol Touch serial touch screen here
EloGraphics
Lucas Deeco
MicroTouch
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
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The following is outdated.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.
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)
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)
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
Currently there are five programs which can be used in combination with digital cameras.
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
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
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
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
A daemon to shut down and up computers connected to ups's. It's network aware and allows server- and client-mode here
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 >
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)