Re: Any known issues with MSI K8T Neo F* VIA K8T800 Socket 754 Motherboards?
From: Luca Pireddu (ilveroluca_at_n.o.s.p.a.m.hotmail.com)
Date: 09/20/04
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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:45:00 GMT
Rick Moen wrote:
> Luca Pireddu <ilveroluca@n.o.s.p.a.m.hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>> Meanwhile, I'd appreciate your answering my question.
>>>
>>
>> Is there a need to be hostile?
>
> I just get a bit tired of the "I don't care what form a driver's in or
> where it came from or how it's licensed as long as I can get a copy"
> attitude all these MS-Windows gamer types have been trying to bandy
> about the Linux community, as if maintainability doesn't matter and we
> aren't able to learn from a decade-plus of Linux history. Anyhow:
>
>> Let's get on with our discussion :-)
>
> Coolness.
>
>> Like the OP I'm also looking to upgrade my computer to an Athlon 64 so I've
>> been doing some reading. Some people in the Gentoo forums say that the
>> late 2.6 kernels have support many of the features of the nForce 3 250Gb
>> chipset
>> (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=216015). IDE, SATA, USB 1.1 and
>> 2.0, temperature sensing, and LAN seem to work. I'm not sure about the
>> on-board sound and the Firewire.
>
> Those people could certainly live without, and not miss them a great
> deal. My old Sony VAIO PCG-505TX was/is a great Linux machine despite
> the fact that Sony elected to use a completely open-source-hostile
> Firewire (or "iLink" as they say) chipset.
>
> Anyhow, the SATA / IDE support on Nvidia nForce3 250Gb and similar
> motherboards was my main concern, partly because I maintain about the
> only comprehensive page on Linux SATA issues ("Serial ATA" on
> http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Hardware/ ). Whether the kernel's amd74xx
> driver in the drivers/ide collection has good enough support has been
> that document's biggest single question mark, lately.
Well, the amd74xx module has been usable with nforce chipsets for a while, no?
That's only for IDE. For SATA on the nforce3 (not sure about the older
versions) there's a module called sata_nv. Of course, I haven't tried this
so YMMV :-) Also, some motherboards come with extra drive controllers.
Those may not be yet supported.
>> Carlo, I'm interested in hearing about your experience with your system. I
>> take it you're using nvidia's drivers? Which kernel are you using? Any
>> problems getting things going? Are you running software in 64-bit mode?
>> How
>> do you like your mb? It seems a little expensive, though I've read good
>> things about it.
>
> It's also typical gamer gear: Much too much emphasis on CPU and video,
> not enough on I/O. Ergo, poorly performance-balanced as a general
> Linux machine, for the expenditure of money.
But it looks like the story is about the same for all the Athlon 64
motherboards. I've only seen chipsets by NVidia, Via, and SiS. Out of those
it appears that the NForce3 has the best I/O characteristics (lower CPU
usage, and marginally higher transfer rates).
> Looks like the forums.gentoo.org host isn't reachable at the moment, but
> I'll try again tomorrow.
>
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