On Thu 30 May 2013 10:52:16 NZST +1200, Chris Hellyar wrote: > Not looking for top performance, just a competent, current > motherboard that will not give me that damned annoying 'An error
Same old story: check componentry before purchase. Otherwise, anything with a decent BIOS should work. It seems to be vary hard to avoid the "testosterone" BIOSes though. Avoid brand-name computers where you have no control over components. The worst BIOSes I've seen in HP computers. Just now I find that USB3.0 chipsets seem to be an issue. NEC uPD720200 (and probably the newer ..01, ..02) are OK, my uPD720200 works fine. I bought a (not so cheap) USB3.0 card reader with PCIe x1 bus interface recently and find that it doesn't work. Kernel drivers for it kill the system one way or another. It contains a VIA VL800. syslog is like http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1875917 and if you're lucky, the driver detaches the hardware. Not lucky, the kernel keeps on locking before recovering, or oopses. kernel 3.7.10-1.1-desktop openSUSE 12.3, so resonably recent and one can assume the problem is not fixed (certainly if you don't have time for bleeding edge) although it looks as it's supposed to be supported. http://askubuntu.com/questions/163227/why-doesnt-my-usb-3-0-pci-e-card-work-via-chipset "While this controller fully supports the USB 3.0 standard in theory and should work well with the default xhci USB 3.0 driver in Linux, it does not. In fact, there is a well-documented history of the VL800 not working" There was another USB3.0 chipset but that had no Linux support at all. So you have a 1 in 3 chance of getting functional USB3.0 support with NEC. nVidea is a non-issue from the end-user POV. Whenever openSUSE updates a kernel nVidea just works, and without the nVidea module needing updating. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
