Author: pebender
Date: Wed Jan 7 20:08:01 2009
New Revision: 4188
Modified:
trunk/gar-minimyth/html/minimyth/document-hardware.html
Log:
- Updated hardware documentation.
Modified: trunk/gar-minimyth/html/minimyth/document-hardware.html
==============================================================================
--- trunk/gar-minimyth/html/minimyth/document-hardware.html (original)
+++ trunk/gar-minimyth/html/minimyth/document-hardware.html Wed Jan 7
20:08:01 2009
@@ -166,6 +166,13 @@
<div id="motherboard" class="section">
<div class="heading">Motherboard</div>
<p>
+ Motherboards evolve rather quickly.
+ Therefore, it is hard to keep an up-to-date list of
motherboards.
+ In general,
+ if the included drivers are known to work correctly on a
montherboard,
+ then the motherboard should work.
+ </p>
+ <p>
People have run MiniMyth on the following VIA chipset + VIA
CPU based motherboards:
</p>
<ul>
@@ -186,8 +193,10 @@
People have run MiniMyth on the following NVIDIA chipset + AMD
CPU based motherboards:
</p>
<ul>
+ <li><a
href="http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=ALiveNF7G-FullHD%20R3.0";>ASRock
ALiveNF7G-FullHD R3.0</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://usa.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=15&l3=210&l4=0&model=766&modelmenu=1";>ASUS
A8N-VM CSM</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://usa.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=101&l3=296&l4=0&model=1138&modelmenu=1";>ASUS
M2NPV-VM</a></li>
+ <li><a
href="http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=2817";>Gigabyte
GA-M78SM-S2H</a></li>
</ul>
<p>
People have run MiniMyth on the following Intel chipset +
Intel CPU based motherboards:
@@ -234,8 +243,9 @@
than one based on a motherboard without an integrated GPU.
</p>
<p>
- Second, you should strongly consider using a VIA or Intel GPU.
- These GPUs have good, actively supported, Open Source drivers,
which means that driver problems will likely be fixed quickly.
+ Second, you should consider using a GPU with good, actively
supported, Open Source drivers
+ that are developed with the support of GPU hardware vendor.
+ At the moment I believe that Intel and ATI are one and two
respectively when it comes to supporting Open Source drivers.
</p>
<p>
Third, if you must use a GPU that does not have good, actively
supported, Open Source drivers,
@@ -247,7 +257,8 @@
Just because some of a vendor's GPUs have Linux driver support
does not mean that they all do.
Some vendors drop support for older GPUs from their
proprietary drivers or
decide not to add support for newer GPUs to their proprietary
drivers.
- In addition, Open Source driver development is often limited
by the availability of hardware.
+ In addition, Open Source driver development is often limited
by the hardware documentation.
+ As a result, Open Source drivers do not always keep pace with
the fast paced paced hardware evolution.
</p>
<p>
For graphics support, MiniMyth uses
@@ -412,7 +423,7 @@
alt="Valid CSS!" height="31" width="88" /></a>
</div>
<div class="version">
- Last Updated on 2008-12-30
+ Last Updated on 2009-01-07
<br />
< mailto : webmaster at minimyth dot org >
</div>
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