On Wednesday 17 January 2007 08:23, Daniel Bauer wrote: > Hi, > > A friend needs a new PC for e-mail, internet, looking at DVD's and write > some letters... So it should be the cheapest possible. > > Now I've searched the hardware-database, but I could not find a single one > of the cheaper mainboards that are available here in Basel/Switzerland : >
Daniel: Though I'm not running 10.2, I've found that - in general the mainboard is less of a concern than the components included. I've installed SUSE and other distributions on just about every mainboard manfuaturer - MSI, ASUS, Gigabyte... - and found that there really isn't a difference. When you go low-end, you are going to find your problems are with either the Video Chip, Sound Chip and/or the networking chip, which will probabaly all be embedded. For any of the listed mainboards, you want to look at the included video/lan/audio and see what the chipsets are. Given that you can check the hardware database to see if the chip is supported. For example, I looked up the first MSI you listed: MSI PM8PM-V. It has - according to the website: http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=PM8PM-V&class=mb Video - S3 Graphics Unichrome Pro Integrated Graphics core Audio - AC'97 link controller integrated in VIA® VT8237R Realtek ALC655 6-channel S/W audio codec. LAN - Realtek 8201CL You take each of these items and review them to see if there's been problems with running SUSE. (I can say that AC'97 is fully supported, AFAIK.) -- kai - [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com www.filesite.org || www.donutmonster.com wo ist der ort für den ehrlichsten kuss ich weiss, dass ich ihn für uns finden muss... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
