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Choosing a motherboard



Does that mean that onboard video and ethernet are going to work fine
with current releases of the popular distributions?

The hardware compatibility wikis only seem to speak to SATA, not video/ethernet.

-Tim

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Matthew Gillen <me-5yx05kfkO/aqeI1yJSURBw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Matthew Gillen wrote:
>> The key thing is to figure out what chipset the motherboard uses.  Then you
>> can (fairly) easily check for SATA support.  This document is coming up on a
>> year old, but it should give you a feel for what definitely /is/ supported:
>>  http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html
>
> Actually, this is a better (more up-to-date) resource:
> http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Hardware%2C_driver_status
>
>






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