On Wed 24 Jun 2009 18:38:20 NZST +1200, Aidan Gauland wrote: > Are there any motherboard manufacturers who usually make motherboards that > work well with Linux, or any that Linux users should avoid?
No there are not. All manufacturers make stuff which works, and all make stuff you don't want. To find out which is which, first look at the chips on the board. Chips without proper Linux support from their vendors don't work well no matter whos mobo they're on. Chips which are well supported tend to work, but even if all the chips are well supported, there is still plenty of opportunity for mobo vendors to stuff it up (buggy bios, tons of features for testosterone junkies without any regard things that actually matter). And drop your notion that all this (mobo, chips, ...) is vendor dependent. Every vendor makes paperweights as well as useful stuff. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
