Re: MSI RS482M4-ILD (Radeon Xpress 200 chipset)
- From: Miguel De Anda <miguel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 00:10:21 -0700
Henrik Carlqvist wrote:
Vladimir Florinski <vflorins@xxxxxxx> wrote:
ATI is not perceived as a viable Linux platform, so it is no surprise
that this chipset is rarely used. I recommend a similar NVidia-based
board from MSI (K8NGM2-FID, GeForce 6150 chipset) which is guaranteed to
work with any modern distribution.
You are not the only one recomending nVidia motherboard chipset instead of
ATI. However, if I choose nVidia built in graphics I know for sure that
DRI is not going to work with the opensource nv driver. Instead of
replacing ATI with nVidia I would rather choose a motherboard with a
via unichrome or intel built in graphics. Maybe I should do a safe choice
and go for an intel chipset, but that also means that I will have to go
for an intel CPU. There are many mini-ITX boards with VIA unichrome
chipset, but I haven't found any mini-ITX board or micro-ATX with
unichrome chipset and a DVI port.
regards Henrik
Is there any reason in particular you can't use the closed source drivers?
Nvidia drivers are nice and seem to always work. I have that video chipset
on my laptop and the ati drivers seem to be very bad and my laptop crashes
quiet often if I try to do any 3d stuff... sometimes just the video display
goes black-white... (I just made up that term for when my display goes
black, but the backlight goes to 1000% brighness). Of course I'm using the
closed source drivers for that.
I've got a nehemiah 10000 board with the unichrome chipset but I've never
managed to get acceleration to work on it. I hardly use it though, but I
really need acceleration on it.. even if its just 2d. I'm using slackware
and wouldn't want to move to fedora (or whatever their drivers are built
for, source drivers seem to be a pain to setup)
Just my two cents.
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