Re: Debian/AMD64/Sid on MSI S270 notebook
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 02:12:25PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote:
> There is the 64-bit now. The only thing that sucks is most of the AMD
> notebooks come with the crappy ATI chipsets.
My wife has a Compaq laptop with an nforce 250 chipset and an athlon 64
mobile. Works very well, even with linux. Even has nvidia video chip.
> I've been bitten by both ATI *and* nVidia. My recommendations would be,
>
> 1. Stay away from ATI video cards - no Linux or crap Linux support.
> nVidia has very good Linux support (and binaries in Debian help too :)
> 2. Stay away from nVidia *and* ATI mobo chipsets. I got an nForce2
> chipset thinking it was supported quite well since it is quite old now.
> Well, think again. Sometimes the IDE went on IRQ 7 and crapped out.
> Sometimes it goes on IRQ 14 and works good. There are weird IRQ 7
> interrupts, with nothing on it.
>
> irq 0: 345254399 timer irq 12: 1
>
> irq 1: 2 irq 14: 2178080 ide0
>
> irq 3: 1 irq177: 39570708 ohci_hcd, eth2
>
> irq 5: 424 parport0 [3] irq185: 138546 ohci_hcd, NVidia nFo
>
> irq 7: 1268244 irq193: 2 ehci_hcd
>
> irq 9: 0 acpi irq201: 1390067 eth0
>
> irq 10: 1 irq209: 81958 eth1
>
> irq 11: 1
Well I have used an nforce2 board for over a year and it has been one of
the most stable linux platforms I have ever used. The board I use is
the A7N8X-E-DX. Everything just works on it (escept the audio DSP, and
I don't care at all. Sounds works fine ignoring the DSP feature.)
Perhaps other boards with the nforce2 are not as well designed or have
worse bioses.
> So, for 3D and other video stuff, I would highly recommend nVidia. For
> AMD mobo chipsets I would recommend VIA since I *never* had any
> compatability problems with all the way from KV133 and KT133A until
> today's K8 chipsets. Good, proven and reliable. 5% performace "increase"
> of what ATI or nVidia claim is 0% performance if the hardware is not
> supported.
Well so far I have been happy with some VIA chipsets and at least the
nforce2 and 250. I would liek an nforce4 board byself (from Asus of
course). The VIA K8T800 has also worked very well for me so far.
> For Intel chips, Intel chipsets are very well supported in Linux.
Certainly they are very soon after release.
Lennart Sorensen
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