Shane, Many thanks for this rundown. I believe my support guy chose the older board on the theory that perhaps older ones are more likely to be Linux compatible, But your information will help avoid that error. I don't buy new computers every year (every decade maybe, but not every year) so I am not too keen on buying old technology if I don't have to. Thanks, Chuck On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 08:32:58AM -0700, Shane wrote: > Hello, > > In general, Intel motherboards are fairly well supported > under Linux. The d101 has your onboard video, sound, and > SATA which should all work fine under Linux. That said, if > you're purchasing a new system, why he would be > recommending an older Intel board is beyond me. The d101 > won't support the new Conroe chips, though they are socket > compatable, you need a 965x chipset board for that which > are quite cheap as far as things go. The only danger with > the latest intel boards such as the 975xbx (rev 304 or > better btw) or the 965x boards is older kernel support. > You pretty much need a bleading edge kernel to support the > new stuff but it's worth it imo. The ahci sata controler > on the boards support NCQ under Linux or atleast they will > under 2.6.18. > > But yeah, Intel is fine, avoid the Nvidia chipsets. The > SATA support is very basic and the ethernet driver was > reverse engineered. Not something I'd wanna trust a > workstation to. One other thing, with the newer Intel 9xx > chipsets, the onboard HD audio is fine under Linux and you > don't really need an additional soundcard. Onboard audio's > come a long way and you're now getting digital > spdif/optical ports etc and again the Intel stuff has > decent ALSA support. > > Shane > > On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 10:59:11AM -0400, chuckh at hhs48.com wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I hope some of you folks who know more about current hardware stuff than > > I do can give me some advice about a new motherboard. I have a support > > guy I am talking with about building me a new system, and he is nervous > > about recommending a motherboard without knowing if it might be a > > problem for Linux. He is going to do some checking, and I promised him > > that I would do some too. > > > > He would like to recommend an Intel D-101 motherboard, unless there are > > known issues for Linux. Anyone familiar with this choice? Is another > > motherboard a better choice? it has been a bunch of years since I have > > bought a new machine and I am no longer on top of choices. > > > > Also, is there a better sound card choice than the sb-live 16 bit card > > that was so popular a while ago, Any experience here would be welcome > > too. > > > > Thanks for any suggestions. > > > > Chuck > > > > > > > > -- > > The Moon is Waxing Crescent (3% of Full) > > Only 10 kinds of people: those who do binary, and those who do not. > > But you can get a few downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > http://www.cm.nu/~shane/ > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- The Moon is Waxing Crescent (3% of Full) Only 10 kinds of people: those who do binary, and those who do not. But you can get a few downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh
