Thanks for the "Heads up". The other board is a Gigabyte with Radeon video and an AMD chipset Rich
On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 17:09 -0700, Robert Munro wrote: > I'd look for a motherboard with an Intel or AMD chipset if I were you. > > As Charlie Demerjian said at The Inquirer today, "Nvidia chipsets are > not only buggier than the mattress of a third-world prostitute, but > their Linux drivers are barely functional if you can find them." > > http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/583/1051583/nehalem-proves-server-mettle > > > Admittedly Charlie dislikes Nvidia, but I happen to have a machine with > a Nvidia chipset, an Asus Crosshair with the Nvidia C51/MCP55 chipset, > and it's got a memory controller bug. When that system gets powered off > and turned back on, it won't detect the 2G of Crucial PC6400 DRAM in it. > I have to open the case and put in a 512MB stick of PC5300 to reset the > BIOS DRAM settings, then put the Crucial DRAM back in to get it to boot. > > However, other than that minor problem, the motherboard seems to work. > It was free from a friend, but I'd get something else if I were buying. > > Robert > > On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 at 7:15 PM, Matt Rae <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have a Shuttle SN78SH7 which is a barebones computer rather than a > > motherboard. http://global.shuttle.com/product_detail.jsp?PI=939 The > > Shuttle uses the Nvidia 8200 chipset and includes HDMI out. I'm > > currently using the HDMI audio/video with Boxee on Ubuntu. Looks like > > if you just want a motherboard, the ASUS M3N78-VM would be similar. > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131318 > > > > Matt > > >> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 4:27 PM, rich <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am going to try to build a computer, and one of the motherboards I > >> am > >> looking at has an HDMI plug on it. Does Ubuntu support HDMI? It would > >> be > >> nice if I were working with video, but other than that I cant't see a > >> need for it. > >> Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
