Lennart Sorensen wrote: >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. > > The only difference between ATI and nVidia chipsets is that you can get nVidia chipsets to work properly. But without native (in-kernel) Linux support, I would not recommend nVidia chipsets for things like remote servers because you never know what nVidia's support for the chipset will be a year or two from now and you might end up being stuck with using an old kernel because of that.
>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. > > It is ASUS A7N8X-X so it looks very similar to what you have. I was looking on Google for the answer to the IDE IRQ 7 problems and the only thing I found out was to cold boot such that the IDE is on IRQ 14. The errors I got about "unhandled IRQ 7 because nobody cared" are supposedly not serious, but.... Anyway, if I have a choice between K8 VIA and K8 nVidia chipsets, I choose VIA. If my only choice is nVidia and ATI, well, at least nVidia you can get working in Linux with the drivers from nvidia.com :) - Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
