On Sunday 30 July 2006 04:46, Richard Fish wrote: > On 7/29/06, Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > I'm gearing up for a new hardware purchase and I find that I need a > > little help figuring out "what is" and "what isn't" linux compatible. > > For the most part today, this isn't really a concern [1]. Most > motherboard chipsets, network cards, USB controllers, IEEE1394 > controllers, etc are all supported, it is just a matter of selecting > the right kernel options. The exceptions are mostly wireless chipsets > and graphics cards.
According to NVidia's list, as far as I can see, the nForce5 chipset is not supported... Does anyone have any experiences with that? > > The major problem today is the graphics card. If you don't mind > proprietary drivers, nvidia is the way to go. Just make sure you get > a card supported by their current (not legacy) drivers [2]. If you > don't want proprietary drivers, ATI Radeon 9250 boards are still > available and well supported, although I don't know about PCI-e > versions. Intel integrated graphics chips also have excellent > support, although I have never used one so I can't comment on the > performance. > > For wireless, Intel has excellent linux support. > > -Richard > > [1] http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/ols_2006_keynote.html > [2] > http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-8762/README/appendix-a.htm >l Robert -- [email protected] mailing list
