Re: Motherboard advice

2007-06-28 Thread Ross Drummond
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:53, Robert Fisher wrote: > lspci. > :00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a2) > :00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a2) > :00:0a.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Memory Controller 0 (rev > a2) :00:0b.0 USB Con

Re: Motherboard advice

2007-06-28 Thread Robert Fisher
On Wednesday 27 June 2007 1:09 pm, Andrew Packer wrote: > On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 20:08 +1200, Robert Fisher wrote: > > I am about to upgrade my home PC and trying to make sure I get a Linux > > compatable mobo. > Thanks for the suggestions (those who replied) In the end Dragon PC allowed me to star

Re: Motherboard advice

2007-06-26 Thread Andrew Packer
On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 20:08 +1200, Robert Fisher wrote: > I am about to upgrade my home PC and trying to make sure I get a Linux > compatable mobo. > Any other recommendations? I've got a machine, built last year, with an Asustek N4L-VM. It runs Ubuntu Edgy 6.10 happily (was not so happy with

Re: Motherboard advice

2007-06-26 Thread Roger Searle
Robert Fisher wrote: > I am about to upgrade my home PC and trying to make sure I get a Linux > compatable mobo. > > One of my suppliers' web sites suggest that the Asus P5N-E SLI is a popular > purchase. > > Any list members used it? > > Any other recommendations? > > Robert > > I recently pu

Re: Motherboard advice

2007-06-26 Thread Jonathan Bell
Robert Fisher wrote: I am about to upgrade my home PC and trying to make sure I get a Linux compatable mobo. Any other recommendations? I have had no problems with the Albatron PX865PE Pro. Very little network usage though. Just a bit of leeching of uni work. Sound, serial, usb work well.

Re: Motherboard advice

2007-06-26 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> I am about to upgrade my home PC and trying to make sure I get a Linux > compatable mobo. > > One of my suppliers' web sites suggest that the Asus P5N-E SLI is a popular > purchase. Mobo models are 95% irrelevant for whether it works well with Linux. Chipsets are critical. If you want to work

Re: Motherboard advice

2007-06-26 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On 6/26/07, Robert Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am about to upgrade my home PC and trying to make sure I get a Linux compatable mobo. One of my suppliers' web sites suggest that the Asus P5N-E SLI is a popular purchase. According to:- http://www.linux-tested.com/results/asus_p5n-e_sli.ht

Motherboard advice

2007-06-26 Thread Robert Fisher
I am about to upgrade my home PC and trying to make sure I get a Linux compatable mobo. One of my suppliers' web sites suggest that the Asus P5N-E SLI is a popular purchase. Any list members used it? Any other recommendations? Robert