On Wednesday May 28 2003 11:53 am, John Drouhard wrote:
> I was considering upgrading my computer with a new motherboard
> and processor. I was highly considering the Asus A7N8X which uses
> the nforce2 chip set. It does not, however, have on-board video,
> so i was gonna get a radeon 9500 pro and use the FireGL drivers.
> Does anyone know if this motherboard with an Athlon XP 2100+ is
> compatible with Linux? I think it may need a patched kernel with
> the nforce2 drivers, but I'm not completely sure. Any help would
> be appreciated.
The nForce(2) chipsets are not well or completely supported by
Linux kernel yet. Neither are Intel i<whatevers>. VIA chipsets
boards are best supported, mainly due to their popularity and
cooperation with the Linux community. Their best are usually
followed with an 'a', eg, kt133a, kt266a, kt333a, and kt400a ...
the latter which outperforms the nforce2 chipset.
nForce only derives (Windoze) rave reviews if perfectly matched,
high quality DDR ram modules are used, and then only in few normal
real world circunstances. If you really want an nVidia chipset
board, then lobby nVidia to break their license agreements and back
room deals with Micro$oft, and help out the folks at kernel.org
with some better cooperation.
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