On 12/31/05, Kevin Cosgrove <kevinc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 31 December 2005 at 2:04, Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I am thinking of getting an AMD X2 system. I want to avoid > > Nvidia chipsets as their hardware is too closed and the Via > > stuff seems cheap which leaves me with ATI (I realize the > > latest stuff does not have open drivers, but at least there's a > > chance they'll release one eventually) > > I opted for an ABIT AV8-3rd Eye motherboard: Athlon 64 or 64FX, > 1GHz FSB, SATA, RAID, AGP8X, 1x IEEE1394, Gb LAN, 4x USB2, North > bridge VIA K8T800 Pro, South bridge VIA VT8237, AC97 Codec 6ch > audio. I put an Athlon 64-X2 4200+ (2.2GHz) and 2/ea Kingston > 512MB DDR400 (PC3200) memory sticks in the board. My ATI Radeon > 9250 AGP Video has been a bit of a source of trouble. If I stay > away from all of the ATI specific (Xorg or ATI proprietary) > drivers, then things seem to be OK. This is with Xorg 6.9, which > I guess has been problematic in this area and with Nvidia cards > as well. > > > Does anyone have any experience with the ASUS A8R-MVP? > > http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=BA22189 > > Looks like a pretty good board, but I don't have any experience at > all with one. > > Please post your success story for those that follow you into 64-X2 > territory. > > Cheers.... > -- > Kevin > > I've got an ati chipset mb for my amd 64 939 system. NO lm sensors support, and open source ati driver doesn't work at all, even for 2-d for onboard graphics card. Don't really recommend it, get a via. Via is much more opensource friendly. Full opensource via supported graphics. Loki loki >
