Re: Asus a8n-sli and firewire
El Jueves, 25 de Mayo de 2006 15:05, Lennart Sorensen escribió: On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 02:29:28PM +0200, Alejandro Exojo wrote: I'm about to buy a new computer, and I'm more or less decided on choosing a A8N-SLI Premium motherboard. My main reason for choosing it, it's some good comments on this list, and the fact that it has firewire/ieee 1394. I would like to know, though, if it is supported with Debian, and if someone here has a positive experience with it. I have seen people claim to run that board with debian before, and being an nvidia chipset, it generally has no problems. Firewire is never a problem in my experience. It seems that unlike usb, the firewire vendors did actually agree on a software interface, so that a single driver should run all PCI firewire controllers made by anyone. I have yet to meet one that didn't work. Firewire 800 might be different, but all the 400Mbit ports have worked that I have tried. Very nice to read this. Thanks a lot! -- Alex (a.k.a. suy) - GPG ID 0x0B8B0BC2 http://barnacity.net/ - Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Asus a8n-sli and firewire
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 02:29:28PM +0200, Alejandro Exojo wrote: I'm about to buy a new computer, and I'm more or less decided on choosing a A8N-SLI Premium motherboard. My main reason for choosing it, it's some good comments on this list, and the fact that it has firewire/ieee 1394. I would like to know, though, if it is supported with Debian, and if someone here has a positive experience with it. I have seen people claim to run that board with debian before, and being an nvidia chipset, it generally has no problems. Firewire is never a problem in my experience. It seems that unlike usb, the firewire vendors did actually agree on a software interface, so that a single driver should run all PCI firewire controllers made by anyone. I have yet to meet one that didn't work. Firewire 800 might be different, but all the 400Mbit ports have worked that I have tried. I think many of us are running debian-amd64 on A8N-SLI. Can be awkward to install: look in the archives. But I have not tried to use firewire on my A8N-SLI, so I can't answer for that. ael -- Dr A E Lawrence http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/co/people/acad_staff/lawrence.html http://www-staff.lboro.ac.uk/~coael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
