20. Other hardware

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20.1 VESA Power Savings Protocol (DPMS) monitors

Support for power savings is included in the Linux kernel. Just use setterm to enable support.

20.2 Joysticks

• Joystick driver
  ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/console/joystick-0.7.3.tgz
• Joystick driver (module)
  ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/console/joyfixed.tgz

20.3 Video capture boards

• FAST Screen Machine II
  ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/ScreenMachineII.1.2.tgz
• ImageNation Cortex I
  ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/cortex.drv.0.1.tgz
• ImageNation CX100
  ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/cxdrv-0.1beta.tar.gz
• Pro Movie Studio
  ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/PMS-grabber.2.0.tgz
• Quanta WinVision video capture card
  ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/fgrabber-1.0.tgz
• Video Blaster, Rombo Media Pro+
  ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/vid_src.gz
• VT1500 TV cards
  ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/vt1500-1.0.5.tar.gz

20.4 UPS

• APC SmartUPS
  ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/UPS/apcd-0.1.tar.gz
• UPS's with RS-232 monitoring port (unipower package)
  ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/UPS/unipower-1.0.0.tgz
• various other UPS's are supported, read the UPS HOWTO

20.5 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
  ftp://koala.chemie.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/

• 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 >

20.6 Miscellaneous

• Maralu chip-card reader/writer
  ftp://ftp.thp.uni-koeln.de/pub/linux/chip/
• Mattel Powerglove
  ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/linux-powerglove.tgz
• AIMS Labs RadioTrack FM radio card
  ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/sound/radiotrack-1.1.tgz
• Reveal FM Radio card
  ftp://magoo.uwsuper.edu/pub/fm-radio/
• Videotext cards
  ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/video/videoteXt-0.5.tar.gz

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