IBM 500 manual Supported Devices, Operating System/POS Driver Support, System management, Comments

SurePOS 500 4846-XX5 Technical Reference

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2.4Supported Devices

The following industry standard devices have been tested for use subject to restrictions defined in the Operating System support section. Other industry devices may be supported using standard interfaces; however, no testing has been done to insure functionality in all aspects.

Device	Comments
4610 Printers (RS232 or USB interfaces)	All models. RS232 models can powered via USB Plus power
	port using 4810 Power cable (feature code 3912 or 3913)
4820 Surepoint Display (RS232 or USB interface)	All Models. Touch models provide dual touch in addition to
	dual display.
Compact Retail A/N Keyboard	Keyboard MSR not supported if system MSR installed
PC Cards	Refer to IBM RSS Knowledgebase for latest listing of tested
	devices

2.5Operating System/POS Driver Support

SurePOS 500 Models 545 and 565 supported operating systems

	Support for Point of Sale application drivers
Operating system	(MSRs, customer displays, cash drawers,
	tone)
PC DOS 2000	Hardware direct interface only
Windows 2000, XP
Windows Embedded
Point of Service (WEPOS)
Power management via ACPI	IBM UPOS Drivers for Windows, Version
Notes:
	1.9.2 or later. (Includes JavaPOS drivers for
• Only DOS full screen mode
	Windows and OPOS drivers.)
supported due to touch screen
alignment requirements.
• Windows DBCS versions
supported.
Linux	Via RPQ only
IBM Retail Environment for SUSE	Ask IBM sales representative regarding
Linux	availability

Note:

1The standby and hibernation modes are not supported with WEPOS.

Application Driver Notes

Driver updates are required from previous SurePOS 500 models. MSR and Scanner in Wedge mode is not supported.

2.6System management

This section describes the types of system management available with the SurePOS 500.

2.6.1System management programs

The SurePOS 500 Series supports the following system and power management programs:

Desktop Management Interface

The SurePOS 500 Series supports System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) v2.4, supporting a DMI-compliant agent such as Tivoli(R). This allows access to low-level information. Examples of information that can be accessed are the BIOS level, processor type, speed, manufacturer, system-board information, and detailed memory information.

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