Re: Motherboard recommendations? -- nForce chipsets

On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 15:37 -0700, Bill Jonas wrote:

> There are things to note about the nForce chipsets; the AGP slots don't
> really work (not well, that is) with other-than-nVidia video cards.
> Also, some of the extras (like ethernet and sound) will only work with
> binary drivers from nVidia.
>

> -- 
> Bill Jonas    *    bill@billjonas.com    *    http://www.billjonas.com/
> "It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your front door.  You step

Not true. There is a reverse engineered OSS driver for the onboard nic
(called forcedeth) in the kernel (proper, i believe) and the
snd_intel8x0 driver works fine for the soundcard. I know, because I'm
using them right now :)

David
--
I want a do-over.

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