El Jueves, 25 de Mayo de 2006 15:05, Lennart Sorensen escribió: > On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 02:29:28PM +0200, Alejandro Exojo wrote: > > I'm about to buy a new computer, and I'm more or less decided on choosing > > a A8N-SLI Premium motherboard. > > > > My main reason for choosing it, it's some good comments on this list, and > > the fact that it has firewire/ieee 1394. I would like to know, though, if > > it is supported with Debian, and if someone here has a positive > > experience with it. > > I have seen people claim to run that board with debian before, and being > an nvidia chipset, it generally has no problems. > > Firewire is never a problem in my experience. It seems that unlike usb, > the firewire vendors did actually agree on a software interface, so that > a single driver should run all PCI firewire controllers made by anyone. > I have yet to meet one that didn't work. Firewire 800 might be > different, but all the 400Mbit ports have worked that I have tried.
Very nice to read this. Thanks a lot! -- Alex (a.k.a. suy) - GPG ID 0x0B8B0BC2 http://barnacity.net/ - Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
