Viglen Genie
Linux Compatibility Testing Results

System Type: Workstation
Test Completed: 2002-10-16

Viglen Genie is awarded the AppLabs Linux Compatibility mark.

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

RedHat 8

This document presents the compatibility testing results.

System Configuration

The following table defines the system configuration tested by AppLabs.

System Configuration as Tested
Company	Viglen
Model	Viglen Genie
BIOS Revision	P05
Main Board and Chipset
Processor(s)	Intel® Pentium® 4 2.4GHz
RAM	256 MB DDR
HBA	Intel® ICH4
Motherboard Features and Capabilities	Two (2) UltraDMA 100/66/33
Display Adapter	Intel® 845G
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) AGP Ports; Three (3) PCI Slots;
Host Bus Adapter	Intel® ICH4
Network Interface	Intel® 82562 10/100 Ethernet
Audio Chipset / Sound Card	Onboard
Optical Drive	Samsung IDE CD-ROM SN-152
Hard Drive	WD800BB (UltraATA-100)
Floppy Drive	Standard 1.44MB
Keyboard	Standard 101 Keyboard
Pointing Device	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 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:

VIDEO - Upon initial installation some video issues were occurring.
1) Portions of the screen did not rewrite and refresh correctly causing icons and text to be overwritten.
2) When selecting a 16bit color depth. The system loaded at 640x480. Information from the Intel® website indicated that the i810 and VESA video driver only support Legacy memory and only up to 8MB of memory for this system. The bios of this system defaults to allowing only 1MB of legacy ram. To correct the video issues, we set the bios Frame Buffer Size to 8MB and set the driver in the REDHAT display configuration to 8MB of ram. This corrected both issues noted above.

SOUND - Redhat correctly identifies the sound chip on this system but does not create a port for it and leaves the device disabled. Sound tests were marked as NA since they could not be tested.

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