As these are very well supported under linux. Maybe your best going for a KT400 instead of the newer KT600 as linux is always a little behind in supporting new features.
As most motherboard manufacturers stick to the standard chipset from via and don't substitute them for others everything should work out the box. It's only when the manufacturer decides that sticking some cheep network/sound/<name_of_device_here> chip instead that people have problems in linux.
Also people can have trouble with Nvideas stuff as they require drivers which aren't GPLd (IFAIK) which means if you try and change your kernel without setting up your drivers again linux won't boot up :(
I think that was everything. In short buy a very popular board that uses a via chipset as more linux people will use them and write drivers for them. ;)
Mike
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09/07/03
Hello All,
The first time I installed MDK 9.1, it was in a dual-boot with Win95B and I put the files on the slave drive. The slave drive died. Then the next 2 1/2 months using all available free time was spent trying to get through another successful install. Didn't happen. And the first message that is never printed in the logs, but flashes by the screen when first attempting to install from the CD-Rom was: BIOS data check unsuccessful
So what I'm doing now is going through the Mandrake site's list of approved hardware to get something from the Certified list. Shouldn't be any problems with that hardware, right?
Is it true that the *only* Mandrake Certified motherboard is the Tyan Tiger MPX ??? This is a dual-processor board. Anyone know if you can run it with a single processor?
I believe there were only 7 Mandrake Tested motherboards. I'm running down those right now to see what they're like.
Regards, "The Other" Stephen Stubbs Champaign, IL
I have a PCCHIPS (crap board) PII 350 128 MB and MDK 9.1 works fine.
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