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It's a mammoth task, but highly laudable because Ubuntu HCLs for example, are hopelessly out-of date, mainly listing old distro version compatibility with a dubious array of hardware. Mind you, that's a general problem for Ubuntu, with Bug Report solutions being relentlessly pursued for sometimes quite historic platforms, steadfastly ignoring more popular platform problems. (OK, OK things have to start somewhere, and volunteer fixers sometimes simply can't afford to buy 'more popular' hardware.) 
As usual when populating a new database, choosing the best initial search fields will be the key to success, but adopting the inverse of the historic view, I guess that 'by popular distro' might be best, but I'm not sure whether it oughtn't to include package exception comments. 
So, for example :
Ubuntu 8.04.1 and Mint5 - [A] and [B] rigs of sig - except for Inkblot and ACIDrip
Mint 4 - [A] and [B] rigs, including ACIDrip, but excluding Inkblot, with 'lm sensor' limitations.
Is this what was envisaged ? 
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Still Learning and Trying to Keep It Simple in Sharing knowledge
[A] rig..ASUS-EN8500GT SATA-320+80GB G31MX-S2 2.6GHz E2160 2G
[B] rig..384M_XFX8800GS SATA-320+500GB G31MX-S2 2.9GHz E4600 2G
32-bit Mint4, Mint6, WinXP & Vista Home Premium.
http://tinyurl.com/MP3-Creation-with-the-Heron 
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Asrock Conroe 945G-DVI Flawless in Ubuntu 8.04 including DVI add-in card, but network adapter not picked up by a few distros.
Creative Audigy SE Plug & play in Ubuntu 8.04, not tested on other distros.
HP PSC 1215 Worked in Ubuntu 7.04 & 7.10, haven't needed to print anything for eight months so untested in 8.04 (but should be fine)
Asus F9E-2P045C (T5450 model) Works with Ubuntu 8.04 though microphone doesn't work "out-of -the-box" but have made no effort to get it working as I don't need it.
Sound in Ubuntu 8.04 needs an easy fix:
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
add the following line to the end of this file:
options snd-hda-intel model=lenovo
save, and reboot.
EDIT: shame on me for forgetting my wee slug. The Linksys NSLU2 network storage adapter is a fabulous little linux friendly gadget.
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good idea.
recently bought a new printer
brother mfc 845cw works with k/ubuntu not tried yet with kde4.
wireless/wired with kubuntu/suse11 (nightmare to set up because of how suse sets up it's firewall rules)
sabayon (easiest to set up) fedora 8
With all apart from sabayon some config editing is required but eveything works perfectly.
Also have a toshiba sat A100-998 thats works with k/ubuntu-suse-mandriva-debian-fedora-puppy-slackware freebsd and at the moment sabayon.(until i get bored)
G-card gforce 7850 gt
mobo-939 dual-sata2
Here is a link to the first place i check before buying.
http://tinyurl.com/httol
Anyone can submit not only hardware but software/games etc.
Is there another word for "synonym"?
Where do forest rangers go to get away from it all?
Why is the word "abbreviation" so long?
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Here's my home PCs for a starter-
Dell latitude D830Laptop -OpenSuse 11.0- everything works perfectly, including wifi
IBM r40 laptop with Cisco Wifi card- as above
Hauppauge WinTV Nova-t PCI 100
Hauppauge WinTV Nova-t PCI 500
Both work well with MythTV on any platform I have tried.
current home PCs:
Asrock AM2NF6G-VSTA
Nforce 6 chipset
Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939
Nforce 3 chipset
Asus M2N
Nforce 430 MCP chipset
MSI "MegaPC"651 SFF barebones- fine with OpenSuse 11, using SiS chipset,
All of the above work fine with Ubuntu ( actually, mainly tested with Mythbuntu) 8.0.4.1 and OpenSuse11 all have Nvidia AGP or PCIe GFX cards except for the MSI, which has an AGP ATI video card to replace on-board.
Belkin "Flip" KVM seems to work with any Linux distro so far.
In fact, most of my hardware works fine with Linux- scanner, 3 printers, USB sticks, USB soundcards, PCMCIA USB card, PCMCIA network cards, PCMCIA wifi cards, wireless keyboard and mouse combos, etc,etc..
Add to that all of the work PCs, printers, scanners, etc- there are driver files on the net for almost all Ricoh, Toshiba, and Develop (Konica minolta) MFPs
Maybe we would be better off listing total no-gos, it would certainly be a shorter list!
But even then , the ASrock mobo didn't work well with Linux when I bought it, but it works fine with newer distros, so even that is a moving target.
Things that fail with Linux tend to be Cheaper or less mainstream pieces of hardware these days.
I even saw a Wifi card that claimed Linux compatibility on the box the other day!
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The sig between the asterisks is SO COOL that ONLY REALLY COOL people can even see it!
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Excellent idea, although if it is going to be a HCL then it might need the title changing to make that obvious.
Tested on Ubuntu 6.06, 7.10 & 8.04: Flawless
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
Nvidia nForce4 chipset
Nvidia 6600GT
HP PSC 1215 Printer/Scanner
Poundshop USB SD card reader
Nvidia 8500GT
Gigabyte GA-MA69VM-S2
AMD 690V chipset
Samsung Tocco (as mass storage device)
Logitech wireless keyboard (shortcut buttons)
Logitech wireless mouse (as 5-button device)
Belkin USB bluetooth adapter
Samsung SATA dvd-rw (Lightscribe works) - Will edit model # in when i find it.
Samsung 26" display R88 model
Tested on Ubuntu 6.06, 7.10 & 8.04: Workarounds/Minor issue(s)
D-Link DSL-504T Modem/Router
Belkin Wireless-G Modem/Router
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Well spotted Attercop Title changed, I'll start work on tidying it up when there have been a few more posts.
Mad Malc
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Tested on Ubuntu 8.04.1
939N68PV-GLAN Motherboard
NVIDIA® nForce 630A MCP Chipset
NVIDIA® GeForce 7050 Onboard graphics
D-Link DWL-G510 (Rev.C) Wireless-G PCI adapter (amazing, works out of the box)
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