On Tuesday 19 July 2005 3:02 am, Dave Howorth wrote:
Felix Miata wrote:
mlist@safenet-inc.com wrote:
Is there anything in the way of motherboards that I should really avoid?
Avoid buying hardware from any manufacturer with an anti-Linux attitude: http://www.mozillaquest.com/Linux04/Asus_Sucks_Story-01.html
I recently bought an MSI board because I read good things. But I sent them a question about the integrated VGA and their response was "we only support Windows", so MSI might be another one to avoid.
FWIW, the board is a K8M Neo-V. So far, it seems to work OK with SuSE except for an annoying screen flicker which was the subject of my question to them. I see there's now a V2 of this board :( Don't know what the difference is.
Cheers, Dave
I use the MSI K8T Neo board and it has worked well with SuSE. Only issue early on was a faulty temp reading which was remedied by a BIOS upgrade/update. Perhaps I spoke with a different technician. My guy said they were only able to supply official support for Winbloze because that was what they were all trained in, but he was very interested in my experiences with the board as he was using linux at home with his, said he was "gently" trying to encourage more awareness "on the job". Maybe all is not lost. Richard