On Friday 05 December 2003 09:20 pm, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Fri December 5 2003 08:23 pm, Janus Sandsgaard wrote:
I am buying a new PC and can choose between these two motherboards:
- Asus P4BGL-MX/533 (standard)
<http://uk.asus.com/products/mb/socket478/p4bgl-mx-533/overview.htm
- Asus P4P800-VM (with AGP) http://uk.asus.com/products/mb/socket478/p4p800-vm/overview.htm
They are both "all-in-one" types of motherboards with integrated LAN, audio, graphics etc.
Question:
- Does anyone have experience with these motherboards running Linux? - Do they work 100% with Linux?
Asus provides some drivers for Linux, but I gues that is not the same as saying everything (lan, audio etc) will work in real life? I can't find the motherboard in the hardware database at the SuSE website.
Well, a sour grapes comment that deals with ASUS but not necessarily those boards.
I have had bad problems with ASUS boards and won't buy another. And once I started having the problems, I heard that ASUS has really bad quality control and if you send a MB back as not working, they are just as likely to send it out to someone else for them to try....
But.... lots of people have had good luck with them. +-------------------------------------------------------------------- --------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI
*********** I vote with Bruce here, I don't like the ASUS mobo much anymore. That's not to say you might get a good one, if you go ahead, but I just wouldn't take the chance. Also, I would never recommend getting a motherboard with integrated video, most just suck. Within a month, you would be back here asking what video card to get. ;o) Lee -- --- KMail v1.5.4 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...