Supported hardware

The live list is the hardware database: every device, its status under each driver project, and the interfaces that have run on it. This page explains how to read it.

Families and packages

Cards are grouped into families, one driver package each. A family’s driver serves every chip in it and picks the right one by PCI ID at boot.

Package	Covers
intel-gma	Intel GMA 900, 950, 3100, 3150, X3100, 4500 family; HD Graphics (Ironlake), HD 4000, HD 4600
ati	ATI Mach64 and Rage II, Rage Pro, Rage 128; Radeon X1200; AMD Radeon HD 5000-7000, R3E and R7E
s3	S3 Trio32/64, ViRGE/DX, Trio3D and Trio3D/2X
matrox	Matrox Millennium, Mystique and Millennium II
nvidia	NVIDIA RIVA 128ZX
sis	SiS 6326
3dfx	3dfx Voodoo4 4500 (VSA-100)
vbe	Any card with a VESA 2.0 BIOS, drawn entirely by the CPU

What the statuses mean

• Tested means run on the physical machine named. Each card’s results come from one machine, so another board with the same chip may behave differently.
• Recognised, untested means the driver installs and binds by design, built from a hardware survey, and has not been run.
• Probe means only the project’s own probe program has been run for that interface, not a game.
• A few close relatives of tested cards (other Trio models, the rest of the Rage II and Rage Pro lines, the Voodoo5 on one of its two chips, the HD 4400) install using a tested card’s code. They should start up, but are not supported.

Supporting a card on Windows 98 says nothing about Windows 2000 or XP. VelocityNT records its own results separately, and has none for end users yet.

Display modes

Modes come from each card’s video BIOS, merged with the driver’s own where it sets modes itself: up to 1024x768 at 8 and 16 bpp on most cards, True Color and 1280x1024 on the S3 cards, 1024x576 on the GMA 950’s panel, 1024x600 on the GMA 3150’s, and 1280x800 on the GMA X3100 laptop’s from 0.48.0. Each package’s INSTALL.TXT lists them.