Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752179AbWJ1LtK (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Oct 2006 07:49:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752180AbWJ1LtK (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Oct 2006 07:49:10 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:35285 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752179AbWJ1LtJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Oct 2006 07:49:09 -0400 Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 12:49:08 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Alex Davis Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: most linux friendly motherboard chipset Message-ID: <20061028114908.GA16631@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Alex Davis , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20061027233223.15380.qmail@web50210.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061027233223.15380.qmail@web50210.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 915 Lines: 18 On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 04:32:23PM -0700, Alex Davis wrote: > I'm preparing to build a brand new 64-bit machine, I am currently leaning toward AMD 64x2. > I've read that NVidia, along with (silent) data corruption issues, can be a bit of a pain > to get working under Linux. Anyone have any experience with ULi, ATI, or SiS? > > Note: I'm not entirely ruling out Intel. If you don't want builtin graphics and prefer AMD Nvidia seems to be a fair choice. If you however want builtin-in graphics there absolutely no way around intel. In fact if you want to do anything graphics-related with Linux and intel graphics (which only comes built-in) is the only sane choice. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/