Messages in this thread | | | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: well-supported motherboard | Date | Sun, 25 Apr 2004 14:18:26 -0400 |
| |
On Sunday 25 April 2004 13:31, carloschoenberg@yahoo.com wrote: >I am looking for a motherboard that is known to work well with > Linux. "Known to work well" means: >1) working open source drivers exist for all onboard components >2) most people are not experiencing random crashes or data > corruption, or the reason for such is understood and a proper fix > exists. 3) multiple people are using the board successfully >4) no VIA northbridge/southbridge, though other VIA components might >be OK. Although there are people successfully using VIA chipsets, I >do not believe that VIA considers the stability of their products to >be an important concern. > >It seems that no one does proper testing of motherboards with Linux. >Although I can find reviews that put a variety of boards through a >handful of tests in Windows, I can't find any reviews that properly >test Linux. > >I had preferred AMD CPUs, but if my choices for motherboards are VIA >and nforce2 (random crashing) chipsets, it looks like I will have to >go with P4. > >My other requirements/desires are: >1) AGP 8X (this is the only hard requirement for features) >2) Dual ethernet >3) lots of USB2.0 >4) firewire >5) four IDE controllers >6) audio with SPDIF out that will not resample 44100khz output (I'm > not sure if this exists). >-
I'm in the same boat as the caps on my M7VIB are slowly fading and it takes a half an hour to get it booted from cold. So I am also intersted in the results of your question.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |