Re: Debian/AMD64/Sid on MSI S270 notebook
Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 02:12:25PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote:
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>>There is the 64-bit now. The only thing that sucks is most of the AMD
>>notebooks come with the crappy ATI chipsets.
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>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.
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The only difference between ATI and nVidia chipsets is that you can get
nVidia chipsets to work properly. But without native (in-kernel) Linux
support, I would not recommend nVidia chipsets for things like remote
servers because you never know what nVidia's support for the chipset
will be a year or two from now and you might end up being stuck with
using an old kernel because of that.
>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.
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It is ASUS A7N8X-X so it looks very similar to what you have. I was
looking on Google for the answer to the IDE IRQ 7 problems and the only
thing I found out was to cold boot such that the IDE is on IRQ 14. The
errors I got about "unhandled IRQ 7 because nobody cared" are supposedly
not serious, but....
Anyway, if I have a choice between K8 VIA and K8 nVidia chipsets, I
choose VIA. If my only choice is nVidia and ATI, well, at least nVidia
you can get working in Linux with the drivers from nvidia.com :)
- Adam
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