RE: [suse-amd64] Mobos/Chipsets for Athlon64 3200+ &SuSE Linux 9.x
I currently use an ATI x800 XT PE on that mother board. ATI has been getting better with their linux drivers. Their current release of drivers 8.14 even has an actual gui installer. Nvidia currently only supports up to the 6200 cards. This update to include the 6200's came out earlier this month from Nvidia. SuSE does a very nice job of making both vendors drivers simpler to install by repackaging them. Both vendors (ATI and Nvidia) recommend using the SuSE install process in the read me for their drivers. -Alain. -----Original Message----- From: Eugene Chu [mailto:chu@tes-mail.jpl.nasa.gov] Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 12:49 PM To: Black, Alain; kus@free.net; suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: RE: [suse-amd64] Mobos/Chipsets for Athlon64 3200+ &SuSE Linux 9.x Alain Black wrote:
I have an MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum that I am quite pleased with. I use the Parallel ATA as well at SATA. The only piece that I have not tried yet is the firewire as I haven't had any digital editing to do since I hooked this system up.
I'm glad to hear that, as I am also looking at that board for my next computer. Mikhail Kuzminsky wrote:
I don't want to use Nvidia chipsets because of potential problems w/graphics. OK, there is VIA K8T800 Pro chipset.
I think you might be confusing the nvidia mobo chipsets with their graphics chipsets. The K8N Neo2 Platinum that Alain referred to above uses a nvidia gforce3 ultra I/O chip, and works quite well on various flavors of Linux, based on all the reports I've seen of it. Plus it has the built-in Gig-E interface, which can give you full Gig-E performance without sapping up bandwidth on the PCI bus. I do not believe the VIA K8T800 Pro has this feature. You don't need to use a nvida graphics card with this mobo; something from ATI should work just as well. Nvidia used to claim to have good support for their graphics chips on Linux systems. I'm not sure what the situation is now, so I would like to learn that as well. eyc
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I currently use an ATI x800 XT PE on that mother board. ATI has been getting better with their linux drivers. Their current release of drivers 8.14 even has an actual gui installer.
Nvidia currently only supports up to the 6200 cards. This update to include the 6200's came out earlier this month from Nvidia.
SuSE does a very nice job of making both vendors drivers simpler to install by repackaging them. Both vendors (ATI and Nvidia) recommend using the SuSE install process in the read me for their drivers. Sorry, does it means that they "recommend" to use drivers from SuSE distributions ?
And is it right for more old SuSE 9.0/9.1 (only this distributions are licensed for some our binary software codes) ? Yours Mikhail
-Alain.
-----Original Message----- From: Eugene Chu [mailto:chu@tes-mail.jpl.nasa.gov] Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 12:49 PM To: Black, Alain; kus@free.net; suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: RE: [suse-amd64] Mobos/Chipsets for Athlon64 3200+ &SuSE Linux 9.x
Alain Black wrote:
I have an MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum that I am quite pleased with. I use the Parallel ATA as well at SATA. The only piece that I have not tried yet is the firewire as I haven't had any digital editing to do since I hooked this system up.
I'm glad to hear that, as I am also looking at that board for my next computer.
Mikhail Kuzminsky wrote:
I don't want to use Nvidia chipsets because of potential problems w/graphics. OK, there is VIA K8T800 Pro chipset.
I think you might be confusing the nvidia mobo chipsets with their graphics chipsets. The K8N Neo2 Platinum that Alain referred to above uses a nvidia gforce3 ultra I/O chip, and works quite well on various flavors of Linux, based on all the reports I've seen of it. Plus it has the built-in Gig-E interface, which can give you full Gig-E performance without sapping up bandwidth on the PCI bus. I do not believe the VIA K8T800 Pro has this feature.
You don't need to use a nvida graphics card with this mobo; something from ATI should work just as well. Nvidia used to claim to have good support for their graphics chips on Linux systems. I'm not sure what the situation is now, so I would like to learn that as well.
eyc
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