Hi Gustin :) we sent our mails at the same time, so you couldn't know that you are a help by writing this mail. Thank you.
Gustin Johnson wrote: > A friend of mine has a similar motherboard. It came with a board in the > PCI-E slot to add an HDMI port. We pulled it out and put in an nVidia > 7100 that he had lying around. At least the board that I saw had two > PCI and one PCI-E. Yes, the board has two PCI slots, one PCI x16 and one PCI ex1. The PCI ex1easely can be disregard, because it's a very small slot. I intentionally spend more money to have the HDMI card, that would be a little advantage for doing little sidelines, but for homerecording there isn't the need to have it and if I do a professional job (I can't remember the last one), there isn't the need to use my equipment. > If you are replacing the board, there are some Asus boards that have > onboard nvidia (6150s, maybe newer now) that work well under linux. This board is a new one, because I want to have a more Linux friendly hardware and it has been one of the cheapest, the alternative was an ASRock and I never will use an ASRock with Linux any more, because my old one was an ASRock. > The last one I bought for my parents was ~$85 CDN (40 odd euros). I'm fine with the new ASUS, apart from the integrated ATI. Linux to the greatest extend is stable. The RAMs are fine with 64 Studio, I don't know why they aren't fine with Memtest, maybe Memtest is using BIOS routs that aren't fine with the RAMs. I don't like to put the CPU to a new mobo, because I'm not fine with most thermal compounds. I get anaphylactic reactions, but not if I'm using the thermal interface material from the AMD boxes. I might should take a look at the thermal interface material list on the AMD's homepage, but speaking against a new mobo is the fact that nearly everything is fine, even if a gfx card will coast as much, as a new mobo, a gfx card might be the safe way. Until now only the ATI and DVDRAM won't work, but I think I'll get it work again with Suse, resp. a standard Debian Lenny, the trouble with DVDRAM might has to do with 64 Studio. I don't need DVDRAM while making music etc., it's only required for backups, because there isn't another safe media but DVDRAM. At the moment ALSA or something that has to do with the sound card isn't fine, but this appears with the ATI xorg.conf. Because I didn't change anything else, I think I can fix it, when changing the xorg.conf. Cheers, Ralf PS: The NVidia 7100 seems to be more expensive than the once I'm thinking off, but I don't know if they are fine with Linux. I'll read about it tomorrow. Has this or any NVida card to be from NVidia, or are other vendors using, e.g. the NVidia 7100 chip set, also okay?
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