On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 10:33:37 +0000
Mark
If you have a wider choice, I'd suggest avoiding integrated graphics on Intel chipsets. Not up to much at all. The Nvidia NForce2 chipsets for the AMD platform wipe the floor with them in every single regard. Go for a modest stand-alone video card if you can afford it.
Do you have experience with nvidia2 audio? nvidia web site has proprietary drivers but alsa tools says they are "old", the result is they are not working, or at least I haven't been able to make them work. Modules load correctly with no error. nvaudio 34676 0 ac97_codec 13460 0 [nvaudio] but no sound in KDE. I'm running a stock 2.4.23 kernel with intel 8xx modules compiled (it seems the nearest choice to what yast autodetect) + of course nvidia proprietary drivers. I was wondering if I had to download alsa drivers from alsa project web site and compile them. It is anyway strange that nvidia that makes pretty good drivers for their video board fail to make equally good or at least working audio drivers. Furthermore nvidia audio drivers have a pretty different name from the one suggested on alsa web site and I was used to think that manufacturer drivers were better than reverse engineered "guessed" ones.