Hardware

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Contents 1 General Info 2 Help with different devices 3 Printers 4 Sound 5 Monitors 6 Webcams 7 Video cards 7.1 ATI 7.2 NVIDIA 7.3 Matrox 7.4 SIS 7.5 INTEL 7.6 Multiple AGP, PCI cards 8 Wireless 9 Keyboard 10 Laptops 11 Specific Computer 11.1 ASUS 11.2 APPLE 11.3 DELL 11.4 SAMSUNG 12 Storage 13 Phones 14 PDA

General Info

• Listing your hardware configuration
• Testing your hardware for problems
• Check the current Users Manual before or in addition to wiki pages listed on this page.

Help with different devices

• Floppy Help
• Printer Help
• Camera Help
• Flash Device Help
• Scanner Help
• Mp3 Player Help

Printers

• Printer Help
• CUPS Printing Setup Mini-HOWTO: Link (new 2009), [1] (older 2002)
• Install Brother Printer Drivers (has also infos for Brother scanners)
• Install Canon ixxx Printer Drivers
• Install Fuji Xerox Docuprint C525A Laser Printer drivers
• Install HP LaserJet P1005 printer drivers

Sound

• Sound not working
• Detect sound card
• X-fi Drivers

Monitors

• Setting the frequency
• Multiple_monitor,_Multi-screen,_Dual,_Dualview,_Twinhead,_Twinview,_Clone,_Twin_display,_displays;_howto_setup
• New monitor
• Display troubleshooting

Webcams

• Overview
• Supported webcams
• Particular webcams

Video cards

• Video card basics
• Supported video cards
• MEPIS doesn't boot to graphical login
• Framebuffer

ATI

• ATI supported cards
• Install ATI driver
• Aticonfig
• ATI video card(s), multiple displays - X.org

NVIDIA

• NVIDIA supported cards
• Pinning nvidia drivers
• Install nvidia driver
• NVIDIA video cards, single display, SLI mode
• NVIDIA video card(s), multiple displays - X.org

• NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT OC AGP installation Tips (Dual Monitor Setup)

Matrox

• Matrox video card(s), multiple displays - X.org

SIS

• SIS video card(s), multiple displays - X.org

INTEL

• INTEL supported cards

Multiple AGP, PCI cards

• Multiple AGP, PCI cards, multiple displays - X.org

Wireless

• See the Wireless connection wiki page

Keyboard

• Keyboard
• USB keyboard and mouse not detected at boottime

Laptops

• Laptop selection
• Lid closing action
• Presentations
• Specific laptops
• Slowdown
• Suspend
• Touchpad

Specific Computer

ASUS

• Asus Eee PC

APPLE

• MacBook Pro C2D Non-Santa-Rosa

DELL

• DELL Optiplex GX270
• DELL Optiplex GX280
• DELL Latitude D505

SAMSUNG

• Samsung N210

Storage

• Fakeraid mirror (Mepis 3.4.3)
• Software RAID mirror
• Speeding up Linux Using hdparm
• Mounting Flash devices

Phones

• Phone

PDA

• PalmOS devices
• PocketPC devices
• Blackberry

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