Re: tyan board

2006-09-22 Thread dtutty
Sorry Len, I sent it directly to you instead of the list by accident. (I know, no excuse for hitting the wrong key in mutt). On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 05:56:23PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Support depends on the kernel version, not the distribution. The nforce > pro 3400 is as far as

Re: tyan board

2006-09-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 04:32:30PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I received this from the Tyan automated tech support mail system. > > They say that the nVidia nForce chipset isn't supported in Debian. > Does anybody know from the Debian perspective if this is true? In sarge that is probably

Re: tyan board

2006-09-22 Thread dtutty
I received this from the Tyan automated tech support mail system. They say that the nVidia nForce chipset isn't supported in Debian. Does anybody know from the Debian perspective if this is true? > > What OS's are currently supported by the nVidia nForce Chipset? > > Here is a listing of the OS's

Re: tyan board

2006-09-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 02:16:52PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The Tyan Tomcat n3400B (S2925) has both video and 2 firewire (and floppy, > ,4 USB, 1 serial, 1 paralell, sound, 2 GB LAN, 6 SATA 3.0, 1 IDE). > I'll use the video for most things most of the time and for Xwidown > running Mozil

Re: tyan board

2006-09-22 Thread dtutty
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 01:00:27PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 12:27:38PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Well if you don't need video for anything other than the console and > setting up, then onboard video certainly makes sense. Unfortunately it > appears you

Re: tyan board

2006-09-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 12:27:38PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I hadn't heard of Tyan (I haven't looked at boards before; the last > computer I bought was an IBM 486 in 1993) but it was recommended to me on this > forum. Asus seems to cater to the gaming crowd while Tyan seems to cater > to

Re: tyan board

2006-09-22 Thread dtutty
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 10:13:32AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 09:18:50PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm building my new computer and am ready to look at boards. > > I've settled on AMD AM2 socket. > > The Asus boards have always treated me well (although I ha

Re: tyan board

2006-09-22 Thread Francesco Pietra
On Friday 22 September 2006 16:13, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > Well I only use Asus boards myself. I have never used a tyan, although > they do seem to have a good reputation (and they can run linuxbios > apparently). I run debian amd64 etch on tyan S2895 K8WE. Everything fine, in particular a

Re: tyan board

2006-09-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 09:18:50PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm building my new computer and am ready to look at boards. > > I've settled on AMD AM2 socket. > > I don't do games but would like to transfer videos to DVD and > watch DVDs (edit out commercials?) and other home use type stuf

tyan board

2006-09-21 Thread dtutty
Hello, I'm building my new computer and am ready to look at boards. I've settled on AMD AM2 socket. I don't do games but would like to transfer videos to DVD and watch DVDs (edit out commercials?) and other home use type stuff. For this, I want a good selection of USB, more than one SATA, firew