Re: motherboard recommendations?

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 03:57:25PM +0200, Jacek Poplawski wrote:
> Could you recommend motherboard which works perfecly stable with Linux?
> Last time I bought Asus K8V-X SE which was huge mistake - it has
> serious problems with AGP in Linux.

The A8V on the other hand works flawlessly.  I have been running one for
about 4 years and AGP works fine on it.

> Now I think about Intel chipset - P35 or P45.
> I want Asus, Gigabyte or MSI board with heat pipe.
> But I found another issue with audio and network drivers for Asus
> boards, so maybe I will skip Asus this time?
> 
> Which motherboard works stable for you?

My mythtv box runs a Q6600 on an Asus P5K which so for works great.  It
does have the occational odd message abour CRC errors from the network
port (atl) although networking is working just fine.  No idea what that
is about, so I am not too concerned about it.

I have used Asus boards for 15 years now, and I am not switching.
Enough other boards have given weird problems that should be that I
don't want to deal with them.  I do avoid certain brands of chipsets
though, even on Asus boards, becasue even Asus can only do so much with
the components they are given.  So I have not used SiS since 486 days
(where they were really good), no longer bother with VIA since they just
don't seem to be that good when it comes down to the details, and no
ATI.  So intel and nvidia chipset boards are what I use on Asus boards.
So far it has worked for me for running Linux.

-- 
Len Sorensen