Eduardo wrote:

Hi

I'm thinking on buying a XPC system (Shuttle /G5 2100) which I've been told contains:/ - NorthBridge: NVIDIA GeForce 6100 GPU - SouthBridge: NVIDIA nForce 410 MCP

I like the looks of the XPC but I want to use Suse's linux.

*Can anyone tell me if Suse works on this platform ? Is there a specific fora for Suse & nvidia stuff ?

*I've been trying to find out on my own but haven't found a conclusive statement.

I've found that 10.0 supported on this page

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.11.html

but then this other page http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html#4

talks about recompiling and I'm too knew to Linux to get into that every time there is an updated kernel.

Then this other page http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA#Legacy_chipset_support

says that recompiling no longer works and that a patch must be used. Things are getting worse !

*Will all these lead to a degraded performance ?*

By the way, what does "legacy chip set" mean ?

thanks / Eduardo

While I don't have that specific hardware, I do have an ASUS AMD 64 bit mom board, with NVidia chipset and it works fine with SUSE 10.1. Also, you can add the NVidia video driver server to the Yast installation source, to make it easy to install & upgrade the video drivers.