Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4626 mails)

[Kai Ponte <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 17 January 2007 08:23, Daniel Bauer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A friend needs a new PC for e-mail, internet, looking at DVD's and write
> some letters... So it should be the cheapest possible.
>
> Now I've searched the hardware-database, but I could not find a single one
> of the cheaper mainboards that are available here in Basel/Switzerland :
>

Daniel:

Though I'm not running 10.2, I've found that - in general the mainboard is 
less of a concern than the components included. I've installed SUSE and other 
distributions on just about every mainboard manfuaturer - MSI, ASUS, 
Gigabyte... - and found that there really isn't a difference.

When you go low-end, you are going to find your problems are with either the 
Video Chip, Sound Chip and/or the networking chip, which will probabaly all 
be embedded. For any of the listed mainboards, you want to look at the 
included video/lan/audio and see what the chipsets are. Given that you can 
check the hardware database to see if the chip is supported.

For example, I looked up the first MSI you listed: MSI PM8PM-V.

It has - according to the website: 
http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=PM8PM-V&class=mb

Video - S3 Graphics Unichrome Pro Integrated Graphics core
  	 
Audio  - AC'97 link controller integrated in VIA® VT8237R
Realtek ALC655 6-channel S/W audio codec.
  	 
LAN - Realtek 8201CL


You take each of these items and review them to see if there's been problems 
with running SUSE.  (I can say that AC'97 is fully supported, AFAIK.)

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wo ist der ort für den ehrlichsten kuss
ich weiss, dass ich ihn für uns finden muss...
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