On Wednesday 28 May 2003 02:10 pm, John Drouhard wrote: > On Wed, 28 May 2003 18:05:19 -0500 > > Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The nForce(2) chipsets are not well or completely supported by > > Linux kernel yet. Neither are Intel i<whatevers>. VIA chipsets > > boards are best supported, mainly due to their popularity and > > cooperation with the Linux community. Their best are usually > > followed with an 'a', eg, kt133a, kt266a, kt333a, and kt400a ... > > the latter which outperforms the nforce2 chipset. > > > > nForce only derives (Windoze) rave reviews if perfectly matched, > > high quality DDR ram modules are used, and then only in few normal > > real world circunstances. If you really want an nVidia chipset > > board, then lobby nVidia to break their license agreements and back > > room deals with Micro$oft, and help out the folks at kernel.org > > with some better cooperation. > > Actually, I didn't really want an nforce2 motherboard. I just went for > this one because it had AGP 8x and got high reviews. Could anyone point > me to a motherboard that works well with linux, is not too terribly > expensive, and has support for AGP 8x (I am going to try a Radeon with > the new FireGL drivers, they are supposed to have good support with X > and WineX). > I am running a Soyo KT400 Dragion Ultra Black Edition that supports AGP8x, USB2.0, 166MHz fsb and has 4 IDE channels and onboard sound (CMI 8738) and nic (VIA Rhine2). $106 at Newegg.com with free shipping.
The only thing not supported out of the box with 9.1 is the additional ATA-RAID controller (Highpoint) but it works fine as additional IDE channels. Works fantastic here. FYI, I matched it with the AthlonXP 1700+ which I am clocking to 2400+ speeds only by changing the fsb to 166, no chip mods or crazy tricks to get it to work, just good case ventilation. That cpu is only like $42. -- Greg
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