On Wednesday 17 Dec 2003 3:28 pm, Shawn Protsman wrote: > Why would the N-Force boards be a problem? The Nvidia video cards can > be an issue but I've not heard of any issues (to my limited knowledge) > with the N-Force mobos. In fact, I'm thinking of picking one up with a > new Athlon XP proc. :-) > > On Wednesday, Dec 17, 2003, at 08:48 US/Central, Derek Jennings wrote: > > I would suggest avoiding Nvidia N-Force based mobos because you then > > become > > tied to Nvidia continuing to supply their closed source driver, and I > > would > > suggest you choose a mobo with a good BIOS that allows flexible > > configuration > > of IRQ lines etc. In my limited experience Award seems to be better > > than > > Pheonix in this regard. > > > > Apart from that just about anything will work. > > My Abit KD7 Via KT400 based mobo works great.
The N-Force boards work well enough AFAIK, but you need to install a driver for the motherboard (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0261.html ) That driver is closed source, and while it is likely Nvidia will continue to supply it, there is no guarantee they will. (Like if Microsoft bought Nvidia) Like many other people I own an Nvidia graphics card, and use the closed source Nvidia drivers. But if I was making a new purchase decision I would try to avoid a product with a closed source driver. derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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