On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 03:09:48PM -0600, Jonathan Horne wrote: > I personally don't know anyone who has had 100% good luck with the nforce. > I have avoided it like the plague. When running linux is your goal, > standards based hardware is the way to go. Personally, I only use intel > chipsets, 3com or intel Ethernet cards, adaptec scsi, etc. I've got the same board as Randy (In fact I bought it largely because of his report of having had good results with it). I've installed TAO linux on it, and with one (resolvable) exception it has been a breeze. I've NOT installed the nvidia chipset drivers, and have not encountered a need for them. (I do have an nvidia video card and have the nvidia drivers for it installed). Perhaps the kind of problems of which you speak come from the older nforce (as compared to nforce 2) chipset? > > However, nvidia rocks it where it counts when it comes to 3d support in > linux. Yes, but it'd be nice if the drivers were open sourced. I'm getting over 1800 fps on glxgears at its default size with my geforce4 MX4/440 board on an athlon 2600+ processor. around 175 fps when maximized. Not too shabby, I'd say. Only tweak was I had to force it to use nvidia's AGP support else I get a black screen with a small Xcursor (which moves around) but nothing else, and cannot switch to a text screen. > > jonathan > > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Christopher Bottaro > Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 2:54 PM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Cc: Randy Kelsoe > Subject: Re: motherboard decision help > > On Mar 14, 2004, at 1:41 AM, Randy Kelsoe wrote: > > 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. > > excuse my naivety, but is dual channel memory and hardware raid OS > transparent? > > i'm looking to build a new computer also. i can't decide if its going > to be a windows box (for games) or a linux system. if i can afford it, > i want SATA, RAID 0, and dual channel memory. if the hardware RAID is > transparent to the OS, i'd rather do that. > > a couple of questions. > > 1) how do i know if dual channel memory is working? is it OS > transparent, or do i need to install drivers? > > 2) "but SATA works (though not at full speed yet)", how do you know > what speed its working at? > > 3) how do you know if you got the RAID setup properly? > > btw, i heard nforce2 has issues with linux: > http://atlas.et.tudelft.nl/verwei90/nforce2/ > opinions? > > thanks for the help, > -- christopher > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------- "For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart." ---------------------------- Hebrews 4:12 (niv) ------------------------------
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