<div dir="ltr"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R <<a href="mailto:caf@omen.com">caf@omen.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> The DG45ID has no IDE connector and no PS2 connectors. I didn't notice that when I bought the DG45ID to replace a DG33BU that had a failed audio jack. I had to get a SATA DVD burner to use this board conveniently. Just as well, the IDE DVD burner was having increasing trouble opening its door and is now kaput. The DG33BU also also had assignable jacks, but they defaulted to useful settings so there was no problem with Linux. The default on the DG45ID is that the blue "line out" jack is an output until Windows software reconfigures it. The DG45ID took forever to boot. Well, it seems like forever. The DG45ID has only one PCI slot, which isn't enough when it is necessary to add both an ethernet and sound card to get some flavors of Linux working. On the other hand, the DG45ID can sample audio at 192 kHz. This is good news for bats and SDR/ham radio experimentors if some future version of ALSA can hack the jacks. </blockquote><div> Ah, thanks! I thought there were some problems with hardware and fedora 10! This board is perfect. It's about time RS232/LPT/PS2/IDE and VGA died! I'm sorry it didn't work for you though. Steve </div></div> </div>