Derek; I agree with you about the video cards, and installing the drivers for either the chipsets or video cards is certainly a requirement for proper operation. No Question there! It's just that I belong to a lot of groups which are hardware-related and the general concensus is to avoid nForce chipsets. Granted, most of the problems are Microsoft related, but since a lot of members are dual-booting their systems it becomes a relevant point.
Lanman *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 12/17/2003 at 4:37 PM Derek Jennings wrote: >On Wednesday 17 Dec 2003 3:28 pm, Shawn Protsman wrote: >> Why would the N-Force boards be a problem? The Nvidia video cards can >> be an issue but I've not heard of any issues (to my limited knowledge) >> with the N-Force mobos. In fact, I'm thinking of picking one up with a >> new Athlon XP proc. :-) >> >> On Wednesday, Dec 17, 2003, at 08:48 US/Central, Derek Jennings wrote: >> > I would suggest avoiding Nvidia N-Force based mobos because you then >> > become >> > tied to Nvidia continuing to supply their closed source driver, and I >> > would >> > suggest you choose a mobo with a good BIOS that allows flexible >> > configuration >> > of IRQ lines etc. In my limited experience Award seems to be better >> > than >> > Pheonix in this regard. >> > >> > Apart from that just about anything will work. >> > My Abit KD7 Via KT400 based mobo works great. > >The N-Force boards work well enough AFAIK, but you need to install a >driver >for the motherboard >(http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0261.html >) That driver is closed source, and >while it is likely Nvidia will continue to supply it, there is no >guarantee >they will. (Like if Microsoft bought Nvidia) > >Like many other people I own an Nvidia graphics card, and use the closed >source Nvidia drivers. But if I was making a new purchase decision I would >try to avoid a product with a closed source driver. > >derek > > >-- >---------------------------------- >www.jennings.homelinux.net >http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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