OT: hardware advice

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

At 13:07 6/10/2004, Craig Tinson wrote:
>they have come up with this:
>http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.cfm?articleid=57&catid=3
>and will throw in a seperate pci raid card..
>
>is this a good deal? anyone used this board?

Excellent board. Note that this uses an Nvidia nForce2 chipset, and Nvidia 
does not offer open-source drivers for their video cards. While their 
closed, binary-only drivers work well with FC1, they have not yet released 
a driver for FC2. This kind of nuisance is what you would have to deal with 
in eventually dealing with their stuff.

Given that this is an excellent board, and that you are trying to solve a 
long-running problem with the supplier, I would take it rather than risk 
the loss of my money. Then try to sell it and get a motherboard with no 
built-in video. Radeon 75xx and 72xx cards do have an open-source driver 
which works pretty well, and it's great to support the people who in turn 
support open source. That's how we got Fedora in the first place!

If you absolutely can't sell it, then put up with the nuisances and keep 
it. :-)


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
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