On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 02:12:25PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote: > There is the 64-bit now. The only thing that sucks is most of the AMD > notebooks come with the crappy ATI chipsets.
My wife has a Compaq laptop with an nforce 250 chipset and an athlon 64 mobile. Works very well, even with linux. Even has nvidia video chip. > I've been bitten by both ATI *and* nVidia. My recommendations would be, > > 1. Stay away from ATI video cards - no Linux or crap Linux support. > nVidia has very good Linux support (and binaries in Debian help too :) > 2. Stay away from nVidia *and* ATI mobo chipsets. I got an nForce2 > chipset thinking it was supported quite well since it is quite old now. > Well, think again. Sometimes the IDE went on IRQ 7 and crapped out. > Sometimes it goes on IRQ 14 and works good. There are weird IRQ 7 > interrupts, with nothing on it. > > irq 0: 345254399 timer irq 12: 1 > > > irq 1: 2 irq 14: 2178080 ide0 > > > irq 3: 1 irq177: 39570708 ohci_hcd, eth2 > > > irq 5: 424 parport0 [3] irq185: 138546 ohci_hcd, NVidia > nFo > > irq 7: 1268244 irq193: 2 ehci_hcd > > > irq 9: 0 acpi irq201: 1390067 eth0 > > > irq 10: 1 irq209: 81958 eth1 > > > irq 11: 1 Well I have used an nforce2 board for over a year and it has been one of the most stable linux platforms I have ever used. The board I use is the A7N8X-E-DX. Everything just works on it (escept the audio DSP, and I don't care at all. Sounds works fine ignoring the DSP feature.) Perhaps other boards with the nforce2 are not as well designed or have worse bioses. > So, for 3D and other video stuff, I would highly recommend nVidia. For > AMD mobo chipsets I would recommend VIA since I *never* had any > compatability problems with all the way from KV133 and KT133A until > today's K8 chipsets. Good, proven and reliable. 5% performace "increase" > of what ATI or nVidia claim is 0% performance if the hardware is not > supported. Well so far I have been happy with some VIA chipsets and at least the nforce2 and 250. I would liek an nforce4 board byself (from Asus of course). The VIA K8T800 has also worked very well for me so far. > For Intel chips, Intel chipsets are very well supported in Linux. Certainly they are very soon after release. Lennart Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
