Re: [newbie] Asus Motherboards and Mandrake - will it work 100% ?

2003-12-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 14 December 2003 03:04 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > >>I just got an Asus A7V600.  It works nicely with 9.2, > > >> though only three of my five speakers work with onboard > > >> sound.  What the hell, my sound card should be arriving on > > >> Wednesday, so I can have fun wrestling with tha

Re: [newbie] Asus Motherboards and Mandrake - will it work 100% ?

2003-12-14 Thread robin
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 14 Dec 2003 2:31 pm, robin wrote: Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: On Saturday 06 December 2003 00:29, Janus Sandsgaard wrote: Yep!!! Not those but Got a Asus A7N266 (all in one) and now a MSI 6570G (all in one!) Both worked nicely on mdk 9.0, 9,1 a

Re: [newbie] Asus Motherboards and Mandrake - will it work 100% ?

2003-12-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 14 Dec 2003 2:31 pm, robin wrote: > Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: > > On Saturday 06 December 2003 00:29, Janus Sandsgaard wrote: > > > > Yep!!! > > > > Not those but > > > > Got a Asus A7N266 (all in one) and now a MSI 6570G (all in one!) > > > > Both worked nicely on m

Re: [newbie] Asus Motherboards and Mandrake - will it work 100% ?

2003-12-14 Thread robin
Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: On Saturday 06 December 2003 00:29, Janus Sandsgaard wrote: Yep!!! Not those but Got a Asus A7N266 (all in one) and now a MSI 6570G (all in one!) Both worked nicely on mdk 9.0, 9,1 and 9.2! For graphic acceleration you need the nvidia rpm package

Re: [newbie] Asus Motherboards and Mandrake - will it work 100% ?

2003-12-13 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
On Saturday 06 December 2003 00:29, Janus Sandsgaard wrote: Yep!!! Not those but Got a Asus A7N266 (all in one) and now a MSI 6570G (all in one!) Both worked nicely on mdk 9.0, 9,1 and 9.2! For graphic acceleration you need the nvidia rpm packages! Even the sound sounds great! ;-)) []s R

Re: [newbie] Asus Motherboards and Mandrake - will it work 100% ?

2003-12-08 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 04:31, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 8:59 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > On Sunday 07 December 2003 07:00 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > Besides, SATA will soon be deprecated by PCI > > > > Express. > > > > > > You wait for ages for a bus, then as always 2 come along

Re: [newbie] Asus Motherboards and Mandrake - will it work 100% ?

2003-12-07 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday 07 December 2003 1:59 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > Well, IMO, I don't see any suspense to it. Up till now all the > various IDE schemes since Vesa Local, including SATA, ride on the > old. tired, rode hard'n put up wet 33.3Mhz PCI/IDE bus. Usi

Re: [newbie] Asus Motherboards and Mandrake - will it work 100% ?

2003-12-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 07 December 2003 07:00 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Besides, SATA will soon be deprecated by PCI > > Express. > > You wait for ages for a bus, then as always 2 come along > together > > Anne Well, IMO, I don't see any suspense to it. Up till now all the various IDE schemes since Vesa

Re: [newbie] Asus Motherboards and Mandrake - will it work 100% ?

2003-12-07 Thread Anne Wilson
> Besides, SATA will soon be deprecated by PCI > Express. You wait for ages for a bus, then as always 2 come along together Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandra

Re: [newbie] Asus Motherboards and Mandrake - will it work 100% ?

2003-12-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 06 December 2003 05:29 pm, Janus Sandsgaard wrote: > > So, then the main difference is that the P4BGL-MX/533 has > > ATA/133 IDE ports, and the P4P800-VM has SATA, but only > > ATA/100 IDE ports.  I'd suggest avoiding SATA for now, so I > > think the P4BGL-MX/533 would be more suitable

Re: [newbie] Asus Motherboards and Mandrake - will it work 100% ?

2003-12-06 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Saturday 06 December 2003 09:47, Tom Brinkman wrote: > Neither would make for a multimedia machine, so the decision > comes down to their suitability for office type apps, email and > surfing for which they should be adequate. So AGP > capabilities are sort'a moot. Integrated graphics shoul

Re: [newbie] Asus Motherboards and Mandrake - will it work 100% ?

2003-12-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 06 December 2003 02:29 am, Janus Sandsgaard wrote: > I am buying a new PC and can choose between these two > motherboards: > > - Asus P4BGL-MX/533 (standard) > > .htm> > > - Asus P4P800-VM (with AGP) > >

Re: [newbie] Asus Motherboards and Mandrake - will it work 100% ?

2003-12-06 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Saturday 06 December 2003 03:46, Dan LaBine wrote: > Janus; I'm running many Asus boards without problems. The new (?) Asus > P4S533-MX is 110% Ok for Mandrake 9.2. If it doesn't work for you, I'll buy > it from you. Thank you. That's good news! Does anybody know about how well the Asus P4P8

Re: [newbie] Asus Motherboards and Mandrake - will it work 100% ?

2003-12-05 Thread Dan LaBine
Janus; I'm running many Asus boards without problems. The new (?) Asus P4S533-MX is 110% Ok for Mandrake 9.2. If it doesn't work for you, I'll buy it from you. One word of caution though. Break down and buy a Video Card! Most boards run like Doggy-Doo-Doo using on-board video controllers, so do

[newbie] Asus Motherboards and Mandrake - will it work 100% ?

2003-12-05 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
I am buying a new PC and can choose between these two motherboards: - Asus P4BGL-MX/533 (standard) - Asus P4P800-VM (with AGP) They are both "all-in-one" typ