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 that instead

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

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 mdk 9.0, 9,1 and

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

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

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 together g

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 for use

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 g 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

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 g Anne Well, IMO, I don't see any suspense to it. Up till now all the various IDE schemes since Vesa Local,

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: snip 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.

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

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) http://uk.asus.com/products/mb/socket478/p4bgl-mx-533/overview .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 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 should

[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) http://uk.asus.com/products/mb/socket478/p4bgl-mx-533/overview.htm - Asus P4P800-VM (with AGP) http://uk.asus.com/products/mb/socket478/p4p800-vm/overview.htm They are both all-in-one types of

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