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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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