On Wednesday 28 May 2003 12:53 pm, John Drouhard wrote: > I was considering upgrading my computer with a new motherboard and > processor. I was highly considering the Asus A7N8X which uses the > nforce2 chip set. It does not, however, have on-board video, so i was > gonna get a radeon 9500 pro and use the FireGL drivers. Does anyone know > if this motherboard with an Athlon XP 2100+ is compatible with Linux? I > think it may need a patched kernel with the nforce2 drivers, but I'm not > completely sure. Any help would be appreciated. > Lot's of people have had problems with the ATI 9500 and higher cards with Linux. Apparently the ATI provided drivers are not very good and native XFree support is weak still. Also, many have had prob's with the combination of ATI vid card and nforce2 chipset. As for smooth Linux support I would recommend at KT400 based board with an nVidia Vid card, or at least that's what I would buy. If I was going to go with the nforce2 board anyway, I would probably get an nVidia Vid card to make it as compatible as possible.
Lot's of KT400 boards run at 166fsb so they will support the barton core and Linux support is much better. If you are going to run windows primarily and like a challenge, go with your original setup. -- Greg
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