New Motherboard: some newbie advice

Rockinghorse Winner · External Since: Jun 28, 2007 Posts: 48

I am almost to the point of buying the parts for a minitower build, and just
wanted to ease my mind about drivers. 1. Does Linux have all the drivers
for the interfaces like IDE, SATA, PCI, etc? Cuz, most of the mobos only
come with Windohs drivers.

*R* *H*

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"I'll take the nice ones with simple installers etc, because to me, thats the
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xask: Deepak Mishra · External Since: Jul 24, 2007 Posts: 3

On Jul 24, 9:21 am, Rockinghorse Winner <rockingho... DeleteThis @deadtime.com>
wrote:
> I am almost to the point of buying the parts for a minitower build, and just
> wanted to ease my mind about drivers. 1. Does Linux have all the drivers
> for the interfaces like IDE, SATA, PCI, etc? Cuz, most of the mobos only
> come with Windohs drivers.
>
> *R* *H*
>
> --
> "I'll take the nice ones with simple installers etc, because to me, thats the
> whole and only point of using a distribution in the first place."
> Linus Torvalds (2007)

You must be specific about what hardware you are talking about. You
are using very very general terms.
Linux nowadays support "almost" everything windows supports out of the
box, but there are different issues about different hardware,
therefore you must be specific

noshellswill · External Since: Apr 23, 2007 Posts: 5

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:21:02 +0000, Rockinghorse Winner wrote:

> I am almost to the point of buying the parts for a minitower build, and just
> wanted to ease my mind about drivers. 1. Does Linux have all the drivers
> for the interfaces like IDE, SATA, PCI, etc? Cuz, most of the mobos only
> come with Windohs drivers.
>
>
> *R* *H*

I don't think the 6100-chipsets are well supported. The ASUS-m2n series
mobos are prime offenders.

nss
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Peter D. · External Since: Dec 06, 2006 Posts: 71

on Friday 03 August 2007 22:47
in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.hardware
noshellswill wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:21:02 +0000, Rockinghorse Winner wrote:
>
>> I am almost to the point of buying the parts for a minitower build, and
>> just
>> wanted to ease my mind about drivers. 1. Does Linux have all the drivers
>> for the interfaces like IDE, SATA, PCI, etc? Cuz, most of the mobos only
>> come with Windohs drivers.
>>
>>
>> *R* *H*
>
> I don't think the 6100-chipsets are well supported. The ASUS-m2n series
> mobos are prime offenders.

Did you mean the 500 series chipsets?

I have an ASUS M2N-E with an n-force 570 ultra that is not quite
reliable.

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