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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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