Kai, thank you for the helpful explanation. Daniel On Wednesday 17 January 2007 19:56, Kai Ponte wrote: > 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...
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