Re: [newbie] nVidia nForce 420D chipset

2002-01-10 Thread Randy Kramer
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I normally wouldn't buy Nvidia, but the Nforce is surprisingly good value for money. It is a CPU chipset, not a graphics card. It includes GeForce 2 MX graphics, ethernet, Dolby Digital 5.1 sound, HomePNA networking, a speculative prefetch cache and two RAM channels.

[newbie] nVidia nForce 420D chipset

2002-01-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Has anyone tried the nVidia nForce 420D chipset with GNU/Linux, and with Mandrake in particular? I am thinking of purchasing a new computer [before RAM prices rise too high :-) ], and the integrated solution offered by the nForce is tempting. Nvidia have GNU/Linux drivers on their web site, but

Re: [newbie] nVidia nForce 420D chipset

2002-01-07 Thread Randy Kramer
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I'm not a fan of closed source drivers, but this chipset looks too good to pass up :-) Sridhar, I just saw something today about NVidia seizing computer equipment from some hackers who used some amount of deception to collect information presumably in order to write

Re: [newbie] nVidia nForce 420D chipset

2002-01-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 07 Jan 2002 09:26:17 -0500, Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I'm not a fan of closed source drivers, but this chipset looks too good to pass up :-) Sridhar, I just saw something today about NVidia seizing computer equipment from some hackers who