On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Aidan Gauland <wgsil...@no8wireless.co.nz>wrote:
> Hello, > > Are there any motherboard manufacturers who usually make motherboards that > work well with Linux, or any that Linux users should avoid? > > Also, should I just disregard notices like this one? > "Due to different Linux support condition provided by chipset vendors, > please download Linux driver from chipset vendors' website or 3rd party > website." > > Thanks, > Aidan > Generally linux driver support is provided by linux itself, and the lack of appropriate drivers is usually a sign of vendors being difficult and releasing proprietary drivers. For example, Nvidia, ATI, you need to download drivers from their providers because the alternatives reek at present in the video department, for northbridge/southbridge its generally in-kernel these days. Simply avoiding a motherboard manufacturer on linux compliance is IMO not a reasonable notion these days, its usually a case of specifics, not general manufacturers. IE: What chipsets they use, what bios they have, etc, and you should look up these specifics and discern how supported they are. Foxconn for example had a nasty problem where they produced a broken ACPI specification to Linux users causing the machine to fail to boot : ( http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869249 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=871311 ) But theres no way to know about that sort of rubbish until you find somebody who has that specific model and has had problems with it. -- Kent perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA nocomil.i...@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );
