[plug] all-in-one motherboards

Chris Caston caston at arach.net.au
Tue May 18 11:45:22 WST 2004


I should point out that I do research to make sure that board has no
hardware chipset issues (regardless of OS) because these are a real
pain.


On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 11:27, Chris Caston wrote:
> I always tend to buy the motherboard blindly without researching it.
> 
> I've never come up against any problems running a unstable with Kudzu
> for PnP and more recently Mandrake 10. 
> 
> OTOH I'm not fusy about graphics cards drivers and if KDE runs KDE runs.
> I don't play games.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Chris Caston
> 
> On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 10:38, Milan Pospisil wrote:
> > Hi Folks,
> >                I am trying to put together a computer on a rather limited budget. One of the cost cutting ideas was to use a motherboard with an onboard video and sound card. 
> >  I have been struggling to find some info whether these all-in-one motherboards are linux compatibile. From experience I know that the one I have got (ASUS P4S33-VM) needed to have the onboard video card disabled in the BIOSand a linux friendly video card inserted in the AGP slot. 
> >  Can someone possibly comment on this issue and/or point me somewhere where I could find some more info?
> >                                                                                                                                                                       TIA
> >                                                                                                                                                                              Milan Pospisil
> > 
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