On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:17:17 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <SNIP> > Stay away from NVidia. Good performing cards, but their Linux support > is atrocious (and that's being kind to them) > > ATI are not much better but at least they make something of an effort > to publish some specs. > > Intell cards are the best supported and the worst performing I'm > afraid I'm afraid I must step in here a little: never had I had any trouble with 3d accel with my small 6200TC, "on contraire": updateing the drivers just got the small rat faster and faster. There were some trouble with mm kernel, but one shouldn't get any hopes with 3d and mm. And I'm talking about a cheap video-card here that can play 3d games in hosted os. ATI on the other hand with all it's specs released, has not convinced me. I had a lot more trouble with it as an experienced gentooer than I had with nvidia as a newbe. ATI-s floss drivers don't support all chips, the official ones have trouble supporting new APIs, cedega issues and so on and so forth. Even so I think you can get the job done but with much more time/effort consumed than one would expect.
> > but i > > am very confused about the motherboard. The cheapest shop vendor > > only have asus motherboard so i don't have much choice. > > - Asus P5E X38 DDR2 for 189 € > > - Asus P5K/pro iP35 for 114 € > > - Asus P5N32-E/SLI 680i for 199€ > > - Asus P5N-T dlx 780i 232€ I to am a proud owner of and Asus MB, changed it twice wile in warranty, because the ethernet burned out and some chip-fan decided to take a vacation, but as for compatibility/performance i have only good words for it > Look further afield. Don't limit yourself to just one shop based on > price. The price difference between motherboards isn't that great > when compared to the cost of an entire box, and the wrong decision > can be very painful in the future Aint all that bad. My brother's MSI botherbord with highly unstable cooling system and a burned USB hub(that was a cool party) still gets him 8 days uptime > > Someone have one of those cards or know a good site with information > > about linux compatibility for those cards? Your google-fu will help you here. The force is strong within you > > The SLI capability is not important as having ethernet or sound > > supported on linux. Should you follow the path of the manual you'll find interesting links about sound cards support on linux, as for ethernet, if you dan;t have drivers from linux you can use the windows ones(this is true for ethernet to right?) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
