Current best recommendation for Athlon 64 motherboard?

Justin Conover justin.conover at gmail.com
Fri Mar 4 18:59:33 UTC 2005


Asus A8V-Deluxe/amd64 3000  CentOS 4rc1 x86_64  Running great
 MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum, AMD64 3200+  Fedora Core 3 x86_64 Running great

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:45:30 -0800, Bill Broadley <bill at cse.ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> > I remember (from the dark ages) that the nforce Linux drivers were at
> > first non-existent, then closed source. I'd prefer a motherboard that
> > runs out of the box on a recent kernel, or one that has a chance to do
> > so in a couple of kernel releases (patching kernel sources or building
> > open source kernel modules externally wouldn't break my leg).
> >
> > But if nforce4 is the best recommendation, we'd even bite the bullet
> > and package up closed source nforce4 drivers.
> 
> Nforce4 drivers are neither closed source or non-existant.  I got a new
> MSI nforce4 board and installed FC3 x86-64.  Audio works, SATA works,
> GigE works.
> 
> I haven't tried firewire yet.
> 
> --
> Bill Broadley
> Computational Science and Engineering
> UC Davis
> 
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