On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 09:47:25 -0600
Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Looking for Linux friendly motherboard where everything will work from
> sound to graphics for Dual-Core CPU (AMD 4400)
> Any recommendations?
>
>From what I've seen, both in personal use, and on the amd64 gentoo lists, they
all seem to work fine with some exceptions around the bleeding edge -
SATA CDrom/DVd - just say no. The hardware - drive, is broken.
SATA hard drives seem ok, I've not personally used any. People
using them as a single drive for a desktop system won't see
any performance difference between them and an identical IDE
drive.
Sound - if sound is important, you'll get a seperate sound card -
something
with an Env24 dsp and 24-bit DACs.
- Most sound problems are not the chips. It's junk like PAM
or ARTS used
in conjunction with cheap, crappy, on board WinSound ,
and trying
to do mixing of multiple sound sources.
PCI-e - some have it working, others don't. Stay away from ATI Gfx
cards.
Networking - no problem seen with Broadcom GigE, Realtek, nor Marvel on
any of the amd64 systems I run.
> Most-motherboard will do but there is always something that will not
> work, especially sound chips. When ask for a driver they point you to a
> linux org web-page where there is no driver.
>
That's because the driver is in the kernel. It's not some separate item like
in the WinXX world.
For your ref - Sound chips I use weekly if not daily -
Sound Blaster Audigy (crappy sound, good mixing)
mAudio Revolution 7.1
nForce 3 chipset, onboard sound
nForce 2 chipset, onboard sound
Headroom Total-Bithead, a USB external headphone amp,
plug-n-play*
* Note all sound is plug-n-play if you know how to -
config the kernel properly
setup /etc/modules.d/alsa properly
Change the default sound device when using something other than
hw0,0.
Bob
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