SGI 1400L
Linux Compatibility Testing Results

System Type: Server
Test Completed: 2000-01-13

SGI 1400L is awarded the AppLabs Linux Compatibility mark.

AppLabs' www.Linux-Tested.com compatibility testing of this system showed the following distributions compatible with the SGI 1400L:

SuSE 6.3

RedHat 6.1

Mandrake 6.1

TurboLinux Server 4.0

Laser 5, 6.0

This document presents the compatibility testing results.

System Configuration

The following table defines the system configuration tested by AppLabs.

System Configuration as Tested
Company	SGI
Model	SGI 1400L
BIOS Revision	PhoenixBIOS 4.0
Main Board and Chipset
Processor(s)	Four (4) Intel® Pentium® Xeon® 550MHz
RAM	4 GB
HBA	IDE
Motherboard Features and Capabilities
Display Adapter	Cirrus Logic GD5480
Serial Ports	Two (2) 16550 compatible
Parallel Ports	One (1) Enhanced Bi-directional
USB Ports	One (1) USB 2
I/O Ports and buses
Host Bus Adapter	IDE
Network Interface	Intel® EtherExpress 100
Audio Chipset / Sound Card
Optical Drive	IDE/ATAPI
Hard Drive	IDE
Floppy Drive	Standard 1.44MB
Keyboard	Standard 101 Keyboard
Pointing Device	Logitech® PS/2 Mouse
Miscellaneous Hardware	One ISA slot

Testing Results

The following table defines the hardware as tested in this system by AppLabs, and provides the pass/fail results.

Tests and determinations are available for reference in ASCII format for immediate viewing.

Test Comment Result
Installation Testing
CD-ROM Installation PASSED
NFS/FTP Installation PASSED
Device Auto Probing PASSED
Base System Testing
Kernel Compatibility PASSED
GRUB/LILO Compatibility PASSED
Heavy I/O Test PASSED
Network Test PASSED
Network Load Test (Not required on workstation test) PASSED
SMP Test (Only required multiprocessor systems) PASSED
Display Adapter
Console Compatibility PASSED
X Server Compatibility PASSED
Stand Alone Monitor (Laptop Test Only) NA
Simultaneous Display CRT/LCD (Laptop Test Only) NA
Sound Adapter
Basic Sound Compatibility NA
Advanced Sound Availibility NA
Advanced Sound Compatibility NA
Serial Ports
Kernel Detection PASSED
Compatibility Testing PASSED
Throughput Testing PASSED
Parallel Ports
Kernel Detection PASSED
Compatibility Testing PASSED
Mouse
Kernel Detection PASSED
Compatibility Testing PASSED
Keyboard
Compatibility Testing PASSED

Notes and Observations:

Tested with the following languages:
* RedHat 6.1 (English)
* RedHat 6.1 (Japanese)
* RedHat 6.0 (English)
* SuSE 6.3 (German)
* SuSE 6.2 (German)
* Mandrake 6.1 (English)
* Mandrake 6.0 (English)
* Debian Linux 2.1 (English)
* TurboLinux Server 4.0 (English)
* TurboLinux 4.0 (Chinese)
* Laser 5, 6.0 (Japanese)
* Laser 5, 6.0 Server Edition (Japanese)
* Alzza Linux 6.0 (Korean)
* X-Team 1.0.1 (Chinese-simplified)

Redhat 6.0 - English

1. System must be given the boot parameter of mem=xxxM or the system will not boot. The value for xxx will depend upon the amount of RAM in your test system. For this system as tested, the value for xxx was 960. The user should specify a minimum of 128 for xxx and a maximum of 960. This limiting of RAM usually only needs to be done for the installation process: however, depending upon the version of initrd used by the distribution and the amount of RAM in the system, the user may need to have this information in the lilo.conf file as well. The user can boot the system by issuing this command at the boot prompt:

boot: linux mem=xxxM expert

where xxx is the amount of RAM the initrd program should accept for booting purposes.

2. Network install: Bootnet.img boot disk along with other recommended install diskettes do not boot properly. Kernel panic results when booting from these disks, thus cannot do a network install. System will install from CDROMs.

3. SMP testing was done using SMP_test while observing xosview under X.

4. Network testing done with the ttcp test program.

5. Printer tested via console with generic printcap file dumped to a connected HP inkjet printer.

SuSE 6.2 - German .

1. SuSE 6.2 does not offer the installation of an SMP kernel, so the user will need to compile an SMP kernel. The user should be sure to first read this page on the SuSE website for specific information on doing this with SuSE 6.2

http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/

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