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On Sunday 30 July 2006 04:46, Richard Fish wrote: |
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> On 7/29/06, Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> > Howdy, |
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> > |
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> > I'm gearing up for a new hardware purchase and I find that I need a |
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> > little help figuring out "what is" and "what isn't" linux compatible. |
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> For the most part today, this isn't really a concern [1]. Most |
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> motherboard chipsets, network cards, USB controllers, IEEE1394 |
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> controllers, etc are all supported, it is just a matter of selecting |
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> the right kernel options. The exceptions are mostly wireless chipsets |
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> and graphics cards. |
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According to NVidia's list, as far as I can see, the nForce5 chipset is not |
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supported... |
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Does anyone have any experiences with that? |
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> |
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> The major problem today is the graphics card. If you don't mind |
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> proprietary drivers, nvidia is the way to go. Just make sure you get |
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> a card supported by their current (not legacy) drivers [2]. If you |
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> don't want proprietary drivers, ATI Radeon 9250 boards are still |
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> available and well supported, although I don't know about PCI-e |
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> versions. Intel integrated graphics chips also have excellent |
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> support, although I have never used one so I can't comment on the |
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> performance. |
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> For wireless, Intel has excellent linux support. |
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> -Richard |
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> [1] http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/ols_2006_keynote.html |
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> [2] |
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> http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-8762/README/appendix-a.htm |
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>l |
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Robert |
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