Hi Filippo, I have GA-K8NSPro mobo, onboard sound is AC97 and works OK,LAN OK, USB ok. nv driver is OK but I don't run games so I haven't pushed it. There was an issue with two of the SATA inputs not being detected by the installer, if you connect the SATA drive/s to the inputs associated with the sata_sil module you will be OK. This may have been fixed now. Norv
On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 10:11 +0100, Filippo Carone wrote: > Hi everybody, > I'm going to buy an AMD64 system and being a debian user I plan to > install the AMD64 port. The main matter is about the mainboard. Reading > this list and googling in general is not easy to understand if a > mainboard is well supported or not. For example the ASUS K8V Deluxe is > somewhere said to be linux "rock solid", while some messages in this > list report problems with sound, acpi and random system reboots (which > really scare me). > Anyway the page: > > https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/27/mainboards.html > > shows every field without "?", thus making me think the mainboard is > fully supported. > > Almost the same applies for the nforce3 250-gb, in this list some say > some say the network and audio are well supported, while a mainboard > using this chipset, Gigabyte GA-K8N PRO shows a "?" in the sound > column of the "supported hardware" page. > > I'm a bit puzzled, but I think this is because motherboards come with > different BIOS versions and people have different experiences from the > same hardware. > > The choices I have are: > > Gigabyte GA-K8NS > Chipset: NVIDIA nForce3 250 + ITE IT8712F > Audio: Realtek ALC850 Ac'97 > Lan: ICS 1883 10/100Tx RJ45 or Marvell 8001 > > Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 > Chipset: NVIDIA nForce4 4X MCPs > Audio: Realtek ALC850 Ac'97 > Lan: CICADA8201 Gigabit > > Asus K8V-DELUXE > Chipset: VIA K8T800 + VT8237 > Audio: ADI 1980 > Lan: 3COM 3C940 Gb > > These are almost in the same price range, the first being the > cheapest. Which one would you suggest? Are nvidia proprietary drivers > working well? > > cheers > > -- > P E A C E > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]