Choosing a motherboard

[tmcallaghan-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Tim Callaghan)]

Great, I had an e1000 issue with running VMWare in the past but it's
good to hear that the distros are on top of possible issues.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl has lots of great information in
their forums, 1 post per device/motherboard makes it extremely well
organized.  I'm ordering the parts from NewEgg today, I'll repost if I
have any issues with the installs.

Thanks for the tips/advice!

-Tim Callaghan

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Matthew Gillen <me-5yx05kfkO/aqeI1yJSURBw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Tim Callaghan wrote:
>> Does that mean that onboard video and ethernet are going to work fine
>> with current releases of the popular distributions?
>
> Almost certainly.  VESA mode is supported by all video chipsets, so at least
> that will always work.  And if your on-board video is brand-name, there's
> almost certainly a good 2-d driver for it.
>
> I haven't heard of any ethernet card being an issue for a long time (except
> the recent issue with Intel e1000, but AFAIK the problem never made it out of
> testing/beta for any distro).
>
>> 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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