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Special Forums Hardware Does this hardware works with Linux Post 302986374 by Corona688 on Thursday 24th of November 2016 11:00:46 AM
Old 11-24-2016
Linux's relationship with hardware is very different than the relationship of Microsoft with hardware vendors. Linux doesn't know, or even care really, what model a motherboard is. It just scans the plug-and-play bus to get the list of devices, and checks whether it has drivers for them or not. This has always meant that "compatibility lists" for Linux are going to be very incomplete. Without buying and testing every possible motherboard on the planet, how would we ever know?

There is probably at least partial support for most PC hardware on the market, though, and workarounds for a lot of the rest, or eventual fixes. The biggest showstoppers are liable to be graphics related, as the drivers for those are always going to be proprietary, it seems, and fixes mean "bugging the vendor for a new version". Search for these motherboard models plus "linux" or "ubuntu" to see if any linux users have reported problems and/or workarounds for them. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, but until some other linux user buys it and tries it out and reports their success or failure, conclusive evidence will be scarce to none.
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sdl_videoinfo

SDL_VideoInfo(3)						 SDL API Reference						  SDL_VideoInfo(3)

NAME

       SDL_VideoInfo- Video Target information

STRUCTURE DEFINITION

       typedef struct{
	 Uint32 hw_available:1;
	 Uint32 wm_available:1;
	 Uint32 blit_hw:1;
	 Uint32 blit_hw_CC:1;
	 Uint32 blit_hw_A:1;
	 Uint32 blit_sw:1;
	 Uint32 blit_sw_CC:1;
	 Uint32 blit_sw_A:1;
	 Uint32 blit_fill;
	 Uint32 video_mem;
	 SDL_PixelFormat *vfmt;
       } SDL_VideoInfo;

STRUCTURE DATA

       hw_available	   Is it possible to create hardware surfaces?

       wm_available	   Is there a window manager available

       blit_hw		   Are hardware to hardware blits accelerated?

       blit_hw_CC	   Are hardware to hardware colorkey blits accelerated?

       blit_hw_A	   Are hardware to hardware alpha blits accelerated?

       blit_sw		   Are software to hardware blits accelerated?

       blit_sw_CC	   Are software to hardware colorkey blits accelerated?

       blit_sw_A	   Are software to hardware alpha blits accelerated?

       blit_fill	   Are color fills accelerated?

       video_mem	   Total amount of video memory in Kilobytes

       vfmt		   Pixel format of the video device

DESCRIPTION

       This  (read-only)  structure is returned by SDL_GetVideoInfo. It contains information on either the 'best' available mode (if called before
       SDL_SetVideoMode) or the current video mode.

SEE ALSO

       SDL_PixelFormat, SDL_GetVideoInfo

SDL
							      Tue 11 Sep 2001, 23:01						  SDL_VideoInfo(3)
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