SGI 550
Linux Compatibility Testing Results

System Type: Workstation
Test Completed: 2000-12-22

SGI 550 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 550:

SuSE 7.0

RedHat 7.0

TurboLinux Workstation 6.1

Alzza 6.1

Caldera 2.4 eDesktop

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 550
BIOS Revision	4.0
Main Board and Chipset
Processor(s)	Two (2) Intel® Pentium® III Xeon® 733 MHz
RAM	256 MB
HBA	IDE
Motherboard Features and Capabilities
Display Adapter	Nvidia GeForce Quaddro (AGP)
Serial Ports	Two (2) 16550 compatible
Parallel Ports	One (1) Enhanced Bi-directional
USB Ports	Two (2) USB 2
I/O Ports and buses	One (1) AGP Ports; Six (6) PCI Slots;
Host Bus Adapter	IDE
Network Interface	Intel® i82557/i82558 10/100
Audio Chipset / Sound Card
Optical Drive	48X IDE ATAPI
Hard Drive	IDE
Floppy Drive	Standard 1.44MB
Keyboard	Standard 101 Keyboard
Pointing Device	Logitech® PS/2 Mouse
Miscellaneous Hardware	One (1) 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 7.0 English
# RedHat 7.0 Japanese
# RedHat 6.2 Korean
# RedHat 6.2 English
# RedHat 6.2 Japanese
# RedHat 6.2 German
# RedHat 6.2 French
# SuSE 7.0 English
# SuSE 7.0 French
# SuSE 7.0 German
# SuSE 6.4 English
# SuSE 6.4 French
# SuSE 6.4 German
# TurboLinux Workstation 6.1 Pro English
# TurboLinux Workstation 6.1 Simplified Chinese
# TurboLinux Workstation 6.1 Traditional Chinese
# TurboLinux Workstation 6.0 English
# TurboLinux Workstation 6.0 Japanese
# TurboLinux Workstation 6.0 Simplified Chinese
# TurboLinux 4.0 Traditional Chinese
# Alzza 6.1 Korean
# Caldera 2.4 eDesktop English
# Debian 2.2 English

All RedHat 7.0

1. NFS installer is broken on RedHat 7.0. Use ftp or CD-ROM to install.

All Distributions

1. Sound testing was completed using the Advanced Linux Sound system (ALSA) using the snd-card-via686a module from the ALSA 5.9 or 5.10 drivers package. On-board sound requires the ALSA drivers. Users can get the most recent ALSA files at:

http://www.alsa-project.org/

Users of TurboLinux 6.1 Pro English sound read the specific notes below for their distribution.

2. Video was tested using the GeForce (DDR) driver. The nVidia card which is packaged with the 330 is not a generic nVidia card, but is a VRx card made specially for the SGI workstations. Best results will be obtained with using the correct drivers supplied by SGI on the ProPack 1.3-VW.

All SuSE 6.4 Distributions

1. Users are advised not to turn on USB functionality in the BIOS as the system will no longer boot properly.

TurboLinux 6.1 Pro English

1. Sound is broken on this distribution and the ALSA utilities package wont compile from source due to missing GNU programs such as Bison and flex. To fix sound using ALSA, compile the ALSA drivers and libs from source and install. Use pre-compiled binaries for the ALSA utilities to set volume and un-mute.

2. SMP functionality is available only after a ke

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