Re: nothing works on ASUS M2R32-MVP

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:46:36 +0100, Tim S wrote:

General Schvantzkoph wrote:


For AMD systems your best bet is an Nvidia Nforce based motherboards.
The Nforce chipsets work flawlessly with Linux. As someone else
suggested always check the customer reviews on Newegg before buying a
motherboard. If you don't see any mention of Linux in the reviews look
at a different board.

Hi

Just out of interest (and I'm out of date here) do they work flawlessly
with a vanilla kernel (ie not binary blobs from NVidia)?

Cheers


Tim

I have several Nforce systems of various flavors, they've all worked out
of the box with no binary drivers required. I'm not sure what the Nforce
binary drivers actually do for you, I've never noticed any performance
difference between the kernel drivers and Nvidia's, the disk performance
seems to be the same and Ethernet performance seems to be about as good
as it can be with the open source drivers. NVidia did have some hardware
firewall support in the Nforce 4 (since dropped in the Nforce5), I
suppose that the binary drivers may have taken advantage of that. It's
certainly not like the graphics drivers, the Nvidia binary drivers make a
big difference vs the open source driver.
.

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