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The most significant drivers and modules that you should maintain on the x450
are:
Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet
The Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet adapter is supported on Linux with the
"bcm5700" module. This module supports all the 5700 series of Gigabit
adapters from Broadcom. This module comes with SuSE SLES 8 and both
Broadcom ports are detected during the installation.
LSI SCSI chipset
The default kernel that comes with SuSE SLES 8 has the LSI chipset support
precompiled. This will automatically support any SCSI devices connected to
your LSI chipset.
ATI Rage XL video controller
The video controller used in the x450 is an ATI Rage XL device. This device is
supported by XFree86, with the "ati" driver. This driver supports almost all the
ATI graphics controllers. ATI controllers are supported on both major versions
of XFree86, the 3.3.6 and the 4.2.1. To follow the status of any supported ATI
graphic device contsupport by the XFree86 project, see:
http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status6.html#6
For generic information about the status of any driver, see:
http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status.html
ATI has also a support page for Linux, where you may find all the information
you may need for finding any new drivers or simply know more about ATI's
support to Linux:
http://mirror.ati.com/support/faq/linux.html
XA-64 chipset
At the time of the writing, there was no official kernel update to support the
new 64-bit chipset. The x450 will work in 64-bit native mode without any
kernel patches. If IBM or SuSE release any specific patch for the XA-64
chipset, you will find more information about how to upgrade your current
kernel on the xSeries support page:
http://www.pc.ibm.com/support
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