F10 on Homebuilt Box - Absolutely Brutal...!!!!

Christopher A. Williams chriswfedora at cawllc.com
Sun Nov 16 20:21:56 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 10:47 -0500, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> I build my own desktop boxes and usually pick a motherboard that Fedora
> is known to work on. Some motherboards just don't work, at least with
> older versions of Fedora.
> 
> For example the motherboard I'm using now is the Asrock 939SLI32-eSATA2
> and I'm using an PCI Express nVidia graphics card -- I forgot the name a
> long time ago. Point is, I asked on the x86_64 list for board
> recommendations and then bought the recommended board. I seem to recall
> there was a problem with the onboard network chip but I fixed it quickly
> by finding the right driver and compiling it. Then future kernel updates
> had it by default.
> 
> I have not paid it the slightest attention in the last few years, but I
> believe there is a hardware compatibility list you can check.
> 
> You may have seen some of my earlier posts asking about the Dell
> Latitude E-series notebooks. I was wondering if others have gotten F10
> to install on that. There were no responses -- interesting.
> 
> My suggestion is, ask around for a motherboard that works with Fedora
> 10, and buy and install that. It isn't too tough to change a
> motherboard. It might cost you something for new memory though -- and
> I've noticed the memory prices Dell quotes for 4 Gb chips are really
> high...hmmm. I don't know if that's a market trend.
> 
> My current Asrock system is sorely in need of replacement, and I'm
> thinking of retiring the desktop entirely and replacing it with a notebook.

Correcting the top post along with this...

Short answer: No I am not going to buy another motherboard.

This exact system ran just fine on F9, BTW.

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