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On Thu 29 Sep 2011 06:42:42 AM IST, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: |
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> On 09/29/2011 04:46 AM, Dale wrote: |
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>> Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: |
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>>> I'll be soon getting a new desktop. |
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>>> I've fixed the CPU as AMD Phenom II 1075T |
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>>> |
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>>> These two motherboards came to my notice which support the above |
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>>> processor: Gigabyte 880GM - GA 880GM-USB3L& 880GM-USB3 |
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>>> How good is Linux support with those? If bad, what other mobos support |
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>>> 1075T and Linux support is awesome? |
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>>> |
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>> I used this site to get this: |
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>> http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/Giga-byte/GA-880GM-USB3 |
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>> That's one of them and I think I saw another one from your list. May I |
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>> make a suggestion tho. It looks like those have a built in video |
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>> system, get a separate video card. Of all the video issues I have ever |
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>> had on Linux, it has been built in video cards. There are other good |
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>> reasons for this too, heat being one of them. |
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>> As to Gigabyte as a brand, I have a 770 based mobo and it works great. |
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>> It's worth every penny and then some. I have also had good luck with |
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>> Abit several years ago. I have installed on a MSI before too and it was |
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>> stable. |
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>> If you want to research other mobos, start here: |
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>> http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ |
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>> There are two ways to do this. If you have the mobo and can, paste the |
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>> output of lspci -n in the box. If you are researching and don't have |
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>> the mobo yet, click on the links on the left to see if the one you are |
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>> looking for is in the list. When researching a mobo, I find that site |
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>> invaluable to say the least. |
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>> Hope that helps. |
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>> Dale |
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>> :-) :-) |
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> That's debian HCL, what about Gentoo? We compile the kernel ourselves man. |
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> It would be better if we don't use debian/Ubuntu HCL to decide HW for |
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> other distros, they're most popular ones and have lot of support from |
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> hardware manufacturers, hence good support for hardware using |
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> propreitary drivers which is seldom present in other distros. |
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I just checked that HCL: |
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http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/Giga-byte/GA-880GM-USB3 |
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It seems things are supported since linux-2.6.25, we're now using 3.0.4 |
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and above. Should be OK right? |
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Nilesh Govindarajan |
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http://nileshgr.com |
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