John McElroy on Sat, 2 Nov 2002 11:10:04 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] mobo angst


I have a new Giga-byte GA-7VAX that I've been running Linux on for a few weeks now.  It's the nefarious VIA KT400 chipset for AMD processors and I'm running an AMD XP2000+ cpu on it.  All has been well with this mobo. I don't use the on-board sound since I had a Turtle Bearch Santa-Cruz sound card to use.  But the on-board LAN works well as do the standard interfaces like USB 2.0.  I'm running RedHat 8 and Gnome 2.  I also have an nVidia GeForce4 Ti4200 that works well with the default XFree4 drivers in RH8. I haven't tried the nVidia drivers yet since they don't support RH8 yet.

I also have a pc with an Asus A7M266 mobo (also AMD & VIA) and I had Linux (RH7.3 & Debian 3.0) running fine on that without a hitch.

The biggest problems I've haven't been with the mobo itself but with add-on cards and peripherals, especially sound cards and video cards under XFree4.  I abandoned an ATI Radeon 8500LE because of the angst it caused trying to set it up under XFree4 in Debian 3.


On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 10:20:29 -0500
Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 02:33:48AM -0500, Jason Costomiris wrote:
> > On Friday, November 1, 2002, at 09:45  PM, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> > 
> > >Is there something I'm missing, or is it really just sort of a crap
> > >shoot each time, make sure you can return stuff, etc.?
> > 
> > It's pretty tough to get something that won't work with Linux.
> 
> I wonder if the various incompatibility things I've read are more
> often about auxiliary stuff like on-board sound, ethernet, etc. I
> always assume I'll have to add cards for those things anyway.
> 
>   
> > That being said, generally speaking, cheap motherboards usually yield 
> > poorer performance.  Stick with name brands you know to be good, you'll 
> > be glad you did.
> 
> I tend to go for name brand (== I've heard of it), not too new, so
> cheaper. (The one I bought is a Gigabyte GA-8xxxx, not at the bottom
> of the price heap, but below the middle.)
> 
> 
> Thanks much for your comments, all.
> 
> -- 
>  Jeff
> 
>  Jeff Abrahamson  <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>
> 
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