From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
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To: carloschoenberg@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: well-supported motherboard
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 14:18:26 -0400
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On Sunday 25 April 2004 13:31, carloschoenberg@yahoo.com wrote:
>I am looking for a motherboard that is known to work well with
> Linux. "Known to work well" means:
>1) working open source drivers exist for all onboard components
>2) most people are not experiencing random crashes or data
> corruption, or the reason for such is understood and a proper fix
> exists. 3) multiple people are using the board successfully
>4) no VIA northbridge/southbridge, though other VIA components might
>be OK.  Although there are people successfully using VIA chipsets, I
>do not believe that VIA considers the stability of their products to
>be an important concern.
>
>It seems that no one does proper testing of motherboards with Linux.
>Although I can find reviews that put a variety of boards through a
>handful of tests in Windows, I can't find any reviews that properly
>test Linux.
>
>I had preferred AMD CPUs, but if my choices for motherboards are VIA
>and nforce2 (random crashing) chipsets, it looks like I will have to
>go with P4.
>
>My other requirements/desires are:
>1) AGP 8X (this is the only hard requirement for features)
>2) Dual ethernet
>3) lots of USB2.0
>4) firewire
>5) four IDE controllers
>6) audio with SPDIF out that will not resample 44100khz output (I'm
> not sure if this exists).
>-

I'm in the same boat as the caps on my M7VIB are slowly fading and it 
takes a half an hour to get it booted from cold.  So I am also 
intersted in the results of your question.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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