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I actually have the Nvidia drivers running on my laptop with RedHat 8.0. I
have an Inspiron 4200 which has an Nvidia graphics chipset. You may want to
give the drivers a shot.
Iman Mayes
----- Original Message -----
From: "John McElroy" <jmcelroy@macelroy.net>
To: <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 10:54 AM
Subject: 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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