070826 Aaron Clark wrote: > On 20-Aug-07, at 3:06 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> (1bd) The mobo listed is described on the ASUS site under 'VGA' as >> "Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 >> integrated High-definition video processing >> with maximum resolution 2048 x 1536 bpp @ 75 Hz ; >> maximum shared memory 256 MB ; supports OpenGL 1.5, Pixel Shader 2.0 ". >> It appears that with this mobo I don't need a separate graphics card >> unless I want very high-performance gaming or similar; >> also, it uses open-source drivers (can anyone confirm?). > I've only had experience with the Intel GMA 950, which Lspci lists > as "Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller": > it's worked fantastic for me so far with the opensource driver > on a Fedora 7 box. In xorg.conf, the driver is "intel" instead of "i810"; > iirc the "intel" driver is newer > and has better support for the newer chipsets.
I've taken a further look around & this deserves a new thread. Thanks for this info, which is also very useful. > OTOH, I do have a couple of words of caution about the Motherboard. > The new Intel chipsets do not provide an IDE controller > so motherboard manufacturers have to go get a 3rd party IDE/PATA controller > if they want that support on their Intel motherboards. My new HDD wb SATA : does that need an IDE controller ? There wb a DVD/CD-RW drive too : perhaps that might need one ? It's not an issue I've encountered before. > Most of the manufacturers seem to have gone with JMicron's controller, > but my experience with it so far has been rather frustrating. > Supposedly its drivers have been in the mainline kernel since 2.6.18 > but it's been pretty flaky for me when I had to deal with it > > Your motherboard has a "Marvell 88E8056® PCI-E Gigabit LAN controller", > mine is a "Marvell 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller" > but they'll both be using the sky2 driver likely. Once again, > it's been mostly functional but not perfect and sometimes a little flaky. > My file server was using this and I ended up switching over > to the other onboard NIC (forcedeth driver) after discovering > it was flaking out something in the network stack on multi-gig transfers. > You should be able to deal with both chipsets, but just be prepared > for a little bit of extra effort to get them working perfectly. I'm unlikely to be transferring data in chunks of that size & my machine won't be part of a network. The ASUS mobos I've had have always been very trouble-free. > 1 GB memory seems a little low to me long-term. I'll certainly add another 1 GB later if needed, but hopefully the price will have dropped by then. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
