Hi,
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Daniel Hill wrote:
also Chipsets have to be x86 compatible meaning they are pretty much
standardised and only some things like chipset specific features will
have problems like power management, and maybe ethernet drivers
There will most probably be just a couple of areas of hassle:
** getting suspend/hibernate etc to work
** opengl graphcs (nividia or ati graphics card).
** sound
My experience is that all of these things are fixable. The steps to
overcome them are:
* don't bother with suspend/resume - only required on a laptop.
the effort expended to get this working reliably is far more than the
time saved.
* use nividia cards.
--yes, a very contentious issue. support for ati will have improved.
As for right now, which is best probably depends on who you talk
to - or even if it is worth battling of 26 squillion triangles
versus 22 squillion triangles per second..
* drink more coffee..
The easiest way of fixing sound is to try to have just one sound card
on the box, which means, no usb sound, no bluetooth.
Yes, you can "futz" around with pulse/alsa etc and get sound to work
with multiple cards. The process is helped by drinking more coffee..
Let the wars begin.
Derek.
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