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-<box 100% | Hardware Database> +<box 100% | **The Hardware Database**
-Welcome to the Linux Audio Hardware Database.+Welcome to the Linux Audio Hardware Database. \\  
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 +Here we seek to address one of the common concerns of all Linux musicians - what hardware to get, how well will X device be supported, if there are any device specific procedures to install, and if so, what they may be - without having those involved run from pillar to post to obtain this information. \\  
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 +As one may guess, it is certainly no small undertaking - do bear with us as we put this together for everyone's benefit. Any help is welcome. In particular - 
 +  * Submit more entries for addition by using the [[http://paste.lighttpd.net/vo#moOkYbBA2SAx46z4mZP26b0g|submission page.]] 
 +  * Bring any mistakes or issues to the notice of the [[wiki:user:contrapunctus|maintainer]] 
 +Thank you! 
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-Here we seek to address one of the common concerns of all Linux musicians - what hardware to get, how well will X device be supported, if there are any device specific procedures to install, and if so, what they may be - without having those involved run from pillar to post to obtain this information.+<box 43% left | **Current Entries**> 
 +{{indexmenu>:hw}} 
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-As one may guessit is certainly no small undertaking - do bear with us as we put this together for everyone'benefit.+<box 50% right| **Linux Support Rating**> 
 +To have a quantifiabledefinitive way to know how well a device is supported, we have the Linux Support Rating, wherein a rating of \\ 
 +\\ 
 +    * 5 means a device is fully functional out of the box 
 +    * 4 means a device is fully functional with some configuration changes and/or requires some supplementary libre software, which runs natively or with WINE. 
 +    * 3 means a device is fully functional with some configuration changes and/or requires some supplementary proprietary software, which runs natively or with WINE 
 +    * 2 means a device is partially functional, some features will not work 
 +    * 1 means a device is completely unusable/confirmed unsupported 
 +    * 0 means a device'support status is unknown 
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 +<box 43% left | **Test**> 
 +{{searchtags}} 
 +</box>
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