Re: motherboard decision help
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fred smith wrote:
One MB that has caught my eye is the Gigabyte GA-7VT600-L, a Via KT600
chipset board. It also has integrated audio and LAN, using Realtec ALC-655
audio chipset and Realtec 8101L 10/100 LAN chipset. I'd appreciate it if
any of you know of how well this board and these chipsets are supported
in a modern Linux if you'd let me know. This Gigabyte board can be
purchased today for US$63 from newegg (not a plug, just a fact).
This MB will work fine as long as you don't need accelerated 3D
graphics. The AGP 8X port is not supported well with the 2.4 kernel, but
does have support in the 2.6 kernels. I could not get direct rendering
to work with a 2.4 kernel, but had success with the 2.6 kernel. So, if
you want accelerated 3D, go with the 2.6 kernel.
Alternatively, I'd also appreciate suggestions for similarly priced boards
that are known to work well (I'd like to not go much over about $80). (I'm
leaning away from an Nvidia chipset board merely because I don't want to
depend on nvidia for closed-source drivers for the board, though I could
perhaps be convinced otherwise!) One small caveat is I need two serial
ports, and some new boards come with only one (I'm using both a serial modem
and serial UPS).
I am using the GigaByte GA-7N400 Pro2 MB, which uses the Nvidia nforce2
chipset. I'm not using any of the Nvidia drivers. This mobo uses the
RealTek 8169 onboard gigabit lan, and not the nforce2 lan. I tried using
the Nvidia drivers for the onboard sound, and they had problems.
Anaconda selected the intel8x0 driver for the onboard video, and that
works much better than the Nvidia driver. This mobo has worked well with
RH9 (but needed a later kernel), and has worked well with FC1 right out
of the box. It's almost twice the price of the GA-7VT600-L, but it has
SATA, RAID, and Dual Channel memory. I'm not using the RAID, but SATA
works (though not at full speed yet), and dual channel memory is about
50% faster than single channel mode. There is also a cheaper model that
does not have the RAID and SATA, and has a 100base T NIC.
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