hw recommendations?

[Justin M. Forbes]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 03:26:12PM -0500, Whitley CTR Cecil H wrote:
> was wondering if I could get a few recommendations on what works well under
> the 2.4.22 kernel that ships with Fedora core 1 64 test 1?  In particular:
> 1.  Does the features of the Gigabyte ga-k8v800 work well?

Generally speaking this board should work with FC1 x86_64

> 2.  Is the S-ATA controller supported?

SATA is Via chipset, I believe this works in the current kernel, hopefully
some users can correct on this, or I can test tonight.  many VIA boards
come with both Via SATA controller and Promise SATA controllers, and I dont
recall which one we actually support.

> 3.  Is the onboard LAN supported?

Yes, onboard LAN should work.

> 4.  Is the onboard sound supported?

Onboard sound should require ALSA, so not out of the box with FC1, but
should with FC2

> 5.  Which has better support the ATI 9700 pro or the NVIDIA 5900?
> 
For 2D, both should be fine, for 3D, the 9700Pro has no drivers available.
ATI has not released any 64bit drivers yet, and I dont know when they will,
I think the comment they made today was along the lines of creating world
class software that focuses on released and shipping windows products. when
asked about 64bit drivers, and I do not expect to see a 64bit Linux driver
until they are working on the windows driver as well... Hopefully I am
wrong. Nvidia supports 64bit fairly well with their binary drivers.


Justin