Acer Veriton 5900Pro
Linux Compatibility Testing Results

System Type: Workstation
Test Completed: 2007-05-25

Acer Veriton 5900Pro is awarded the AppLabs Linux Compatibility mark.

AppLabs' www.Linux-Tested.com compatibility testing of this system showed the following distributions compatible with the Acer Veriton 5900Pro:

RedHat Enterprise Workstation 4.0

This document presents the compatibility testing results.

System Configuration

The following table defines the system configuration tested by AppLabs.

System Configuration as Tested
Company	Acer
Model	Acer Veriton 5900Pro
BIOS Revision	R03-A1L
Main Board and Chipset	FQ965M; NB:Intel® Q965G, SB: ICH8DO
Processor(s)	Intel® Core 2 E6300 1.86 GHz
RAM	1 GB
HBA	Intel® ICH8D0
Motherboard Features and Capabilities
Display Adapter	Radeon X550 ; 256MB
Serial Ports	One (1) 16550 compatible
Parallel Ports	One (1) Enhanced Bi-directional
USB Ports	Eight (8) USB 2
I/O Ports and buses	One (1) PCI-E1 Slots; One (1) PCI-E16 Slots; Two (2) PCI Slots;
Host Bus Adapter	Intel® ICH8D0
Network Interface	Integrated Intel® 82566DM
Audio Chipset / Sound Card	On Board Realtek ALC888
Optical Drive	LITE-ON SHD-16S1S and HL-DT-ST GDRH10N SATA
Hard Drive	Seagate® ST3250820AS SATA
Floppy Drive	Standard 1.44MB
Keyboard	Standard 101 Keyboard
Pointing Device	Standard PS/2 Mouse
Miscellaneous Hardware

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) NA
SMP Test (Only required multiprocessor systems) NA
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 PASSED
Advanced Sound Availibility PASSED
Advanced Sound Compatibility PASSED
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:

1. Change the BIOS -> Integrated Peripherals -> OnChip IDE Device -> IDE mode with AHCI mode.
2.The VGA driver could use the General VESA_VGA driver to enable the X-Windows .
3 .Get the Lan Driver

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