From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267240AbUBMWKY (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2004 17:10:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267243AbUBMWKY (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2004 17:10:24 -0500 Received: from fed1mtao05.cox.net ([68.6.19.126]:57082 "EHLO fed1mtao05.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267240AbUBMWKU (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2004 17:10:20 -0500 Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 15:12:30 -0700 From: Jesse Allen To: Grzegorz Kulewski Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: is nForce2 good choice under Linux? Message-ID: <20040213221230.GA902@tesore.local> Mail-Followup-To: Jesse Allen , Grzegorz Kulewski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 09:10:36PM +0100, Grzegorz Kulewski wrote: > Hi, > > I am recently considering buying Abit AN7 motherboard with NVIDIA nForce2 > Ultra 400 with MCP-T bridge. Short answer: don't. Nvidia sucks -- they don't support open source at all. Longer answer: You can probably get away with it if you make a good choice with a board. Read up specifically on which boards work. My suggestion, based on experience: Get a Shuttle AN35N and flash the bios to the latest to fix the lockup bug. It's a $40 board and comes with 5 PCI slots and 1 AGP. No firewire or SATA, but if you want them you could now buy quality, supported PCI cards instead. This motherboard can run vanilla 2.6.2, with nforce IDE, sound and net. The sound and net nforce drivers need some work done, so if you don't like how they run you still have lots of PCI slots. It doesn't have built on video so you have an option here too. And you should get a good supported ATI card anyway if you want 3d. I use this board. It is stable, cheap, fast, and fully functional. Though if I had a choice to buy a board again, it will not be nvidia. Jesse