Archive Linux Hardware Matrix

Released December 2015
Product Items/Features
(Blank box or unlisted means the component is NOT functional w/ as-is OS)
RHEL WS 3 U8 or later
(x86 & EM64T)
RHEL WS 4 U5 or later
(x86 & EM64T)
RHEL DT 5 or later (x86
& x86 64)
SLED11 or later
(x86 64)
HP Workstation Base System
Base system includes: Chassis, System Board, USB, Power Supply, etc.
• • • •
Localization Kit (See footnote 1)
HP Localization Kit
• • • •
Software
Remote Graphics Software • • • •
All Supported Processors
Hyperthreading
Single-Core Opteron • • • •
Dual-core Opteron (1.8GHz, 2.0GHz, 2.2GHz, 2.4GHz, 2.6GHz, and 2.8GHz) • • • •
Quad-core Opteron (2.1GHz, 2.2GHz, 2.3GHz, 2.4GHz, 2.5GHz, 2.7GHz, 2.8GHz, 2.9GHz,
3.1GHz)
9 9 9
Graphics Card (Video Card) (See footnote 2)
No Graphics Card
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NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285
• • • •
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290
• • •
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 295
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NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450
• • •
NVIDIA Quadro FX370
• • •
NVIDIA Quadro FX380
• • •
NVIDIA Quadro FX560
• • • •
NVIDIA Quadro FX570
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NVIDIA Quadro FX580
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NVIDIA Quadro FX1500
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NVIDIA Quadro FX1700
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NVIDIA Quadro FX1800
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NVIDIA Quadro FX3500
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NVIDIA Quadro FX3700
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NVIDIA Quadro FX3800
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NVIDIA Quadro FX4500
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NVIDIA Quadro FX4600
7 7 7 •
NVIDIA Quadro FX4800
• • •
NVIDIA Quadro FX5500
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NVIDIA Quadro FX5600
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NVIDIA Quadro FX5800
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G-Card (to be used with the FX4500)
• • • •
SLI Graphics Connector
ATI v3300 PCIe
ATI v3350 PCIe
ATI v7200 PCIe
ATI v3700 PCIe - Single Card Supported
• • •
ATI v5600 PCIe
ATI v5700 PCIe - Single Card Supported
• • •
ATI v7700 PCIe
ATI v7750 PCIe - Single Card Supported
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System RAM
Minimum (GB)
1GB 1GB 1GB 1GB
Maximum (GB)
64GB 64GB 64GB 64GB
Hard Disks
All Supported SAS Disk Drives 4 4 4 4
All Supported SSD Disk Drives
All Supported SATA Disk Drives 4 4 4 4
All Supported USB Drive Keys • • • •
Network Cards (no modem support)
Broadcom 5751 PCIe
• • • •
Intel Pro 1000 GT Gigabit PCI
• • • •
Onboard Components
Onboard LAN eth0 - Nvidia
• • • •
Onboard LAN eth1 - Nvidia
• • • •
Onboard Audio
6 • • •
Onboard SATA/SAS RAID
5 5 5 5
Add Ons
IEEE 1394 A/B PCI Card
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
LSI 8344 5 5 5
LSI 8888 ELP
5 5 5
Removable CD/DVD Media
HP 48x CD-ROM Drive
• • • •
HP 16x DVD-ROM Drive
• • • •
HP 48x DVD/CDRW Combo
• • • •
HP 16x dual-layer DVD+RW
3 3 3 3
HP BD-RE (Writer)
• • • •
Input/Output Devices (no spaceball support)
HP 3-Button Mouse, PS/2
• • • •
HP Scroll Mouse, PS/2
• • • •
HP Optical Scroll Mouse, USB
• • • •
HP Standard Keyboard, USB/PS2
• • • •
TPM Module/ Smart Card
22 in 1 Card Reader
HP Printers
8 8 8 8
All Supported Monitors
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footnote 1 - Localization supported: (ABA US English, ABC French Canadian, ABD Germany, ABE Spain, ABF France, ABG Australia, ABU UK English, ABJ Japan, AB2 China (PRC), AB4 Singapore/
Malaysia, ABZ Italy, AB5 Hong Kong, ACF Japan-English, ACJ India-English, AB0 Taiwan, AK6 Europe A4, AC0 Belgium, ABS Sweden, ABB Int'l English).
footnote 2 - Get the latest drivers and "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 8" ISO images from http://www.hp.com/support/xw9400. Under
Download options,
select
Get drivers, software & firmware. To locate the 'Install Guide for Red Hat Linux on HP Linux Workstations', select Manuals and then select Setup and install - general.
footnote 7 - The NVIDIA graphics driver works very well. Vesa driver has issues with this card.
footnote 3 - Linux growisofs supports DVD+RW and Blu-ray media on Red Hat EL WS 3 or later. For drives that have the Lightscribe functionality, please visit www.lightscribe.com for software to enable
the labeling feature.
Linux Hardware Matrix for HP Workstations
HP xw9400 Workstation
Originally certified with RHEL 3 Update 8 (x86_64), RHEL4 Update 4 (x86 & x86_64), RHEL5 (x86 & x86_64), and SLED 11 (x86_64)
This page is not complete without the General Notes (first page of the matrix).
footnote 8 - For more info about Linux driver support for HP printers, please visit http://www.hplip.net.
footnote 9 - NVIDIA Drivers (169.17/173.14/177.61) do not work on RHEL4.x and 5.x 32bit. NVIDIA Drivers (169.17/173.14/177.61) will work on RHEL4.x and 5.x 64bit. NVIDIA Driver 177.82 or newer will
work on both RHEL4.x and RHEL5.x (32/64bit).
footnote 4 - Mixed hard drives are not offered on the preload. Use SATA or SCSI, not both. We do offer mixed drives on the HPIKL (FreeDos) configuration.
footnote 5 - Hardware RAID is supported using the LSI 8344 ELP (RAID 0,1, 5 SAS only), LSI 8888 ELP (RAID 0,1, 5 SAS only), and Onboard SAS RAID (RAID 0,1). SATA RAID is not supported.
footnote 6 - For RHEL3 U8, download the ALSA Sound Support softpaq from http://www.hp.com/support/xw9400. For RHEL4, use the built-in ALSA Sound Support.