On 9/24/06, Dinesh Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Rony, On 9/24/06, Rony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > linux . Could you provide a small list of motherboard models that you > have been using on desktop/workstation systems running linux, for the > last 6 months? That will be long list. However, I would suggest that you avoid ASUS MBs like plague. They simpply suck. > Regards, > > Rony.
Dear Dinesh, I Beg to Differ, I have been using an ASUS board on my home workstation for almost 2 years now, and the best part is, everything in it came supported out of the box, yes, even the on-board radeon chipset, and i managed to even get DOOM3 to run on it. There is only one part that does not work, and that is the pata slot connected to the secondary SIS-180 sata controller,, meaning i can only connect 6 hard disks to this system, instead of 8. That's all. and that applies to any motherboard that uses the sis180 sata controller to also provide a pata port, not just asus. I think a more prudent method of handling this would be to make a list of chipsets that have good support in linux. the same manufacturer may make 2 models with diff chipsets, one of which may rock, while the other makes you wish you had a machine gun and the address of the mobo designer:). So, lets say that we make a list of motherboard chipsets that are known to work well with linux, and this will be a pretty long list, but many many times shorter than the list of motherboard models themselves. More importantly, let's make up a lit of motherboard chipsets that we have had problems with(and this will be a much shorter list), and that can be a quick list to check against whenever choosing a new motherboard. With rgards,
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