-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 09 December 2003 2:31 pm, Janus Sandsgaard wrote: > Hi there > > I am buying a new PC with a "ASUS P4P800-VM" motherboard (a "all-in-one" > with i865G chip set). In the section "Recommended hardware" for 9.2 > Mandrake writes that the i865G chip set works when it comes to graphics. > > <http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/9.2/features/#14> > > Great! But what about the rest of the features of the motherboard? Will > everything work 100%? USB, disk controllers etc? One things is if it will > work with Mandrake. Another thing is if perform _well_ with Linux (and bad > support doesn't slow down read/write access to disk, ram etc). I am ready > to install seperate cards for lan and audio, but will I then have a good > solution? > > Janus
Try downloading a copy of MandrakeMove or pclinuxos to test the system you want to buy. Both are based on the latest Mandrake release even though both are sort of "late release candidate" types. Or a Knoppix disk will accomplish the same thing. None write anything to the disk unless you mount a swap partition/directory. In fact you don't even need a hard drive for Knoppix or pclos. If the system boots, finds and configures the peripheral devices (ethernet or modem, mouse, keyboard, disk drives, USB devices, sound, etc), sets up 'net access and plays audio files and has clean graphics what more do you want? Specifically what do you want someone to say? That it will work perfectly and you can count on that as a guarantee? I doubt even Intel would give you that kind of a guarantee...even on a preloaded Windows box. As with all software/hardware interfaces; YMMV. Your mileage may vary and you're on your own. There are only three certainties in life: 1.) S#!t happens; 2.) Taxes; 3.)You'll never escape alive. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 14:40:05 up 1 day, 3:38, 1 user, load average: 0.11, 0.19, 0.13 While most peoples' opinions change, the conviction of their correctness never does. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/1kOoZqvqlrLPr5YRAkOmAJ4k/1yDRfG4WoWN0CY5gIj8Q15iyQCfWz1R nQBtqpxPyT9xz2XgpAO07VQ= =Ci/B -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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