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From: General Schvantzkopf on 3 Apr 2008 20:38
On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:16:26 -0400, Blattus Slafaly ‰ ⁜ ☺ ♞ wrote:

> General Schvantzkopf wrote:
>> On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:42:45 -0400, Blattus Slafaly ‰ ⁜ ☺ ♞ wrote:
>>
>>> kid wrote:
>>>> Can someone help me find a linux compatible motherboard? It needs to
>>>> be
>>>> amd x2 because I already have the processer.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Avoid onboard devices like built in ethernet, half modems, video,
>>> IrD, bluetooth, WIFI and stuff like that. The motherboard drivers CD
>>> usually don't have Linux drivers.
>>> Get add on cards that Linux supports.
>>
>> This is absolutely wrong. Ethernet controllers all work out of the box
>> as do virtually all graphics chips. WiFi is the only thing you have to
>> be careful of but that's easy too, Intel works, Broadcom doesn't.
>> Nobody cares about WinModems anymore so that's a non-issue.
>
> You need correction. I have a PCCHIPS A31G and the tulip Ethernet
> drivers does not work very well on the built in device. It was slow and
> froze many times. I had to disable it on BIOS. I had to add a Netgear
> card which works very well.

You went out of your way to find incompatible equipment. All of the
mainstream chipset vendors (Intel, AMD, Nvidia, VIA), are completely
Linux compatible. The mainstream Ethernet chips are compatible also. The
Tulip Ethernet chip was from DEC which designed it the mid-90s, it's not
used on modern motherboards, however if you Google it you will see that
it did work in it's day which was a long long time ago.

From: Blattus Slafaly ‰ ⁜ ☺ ♞ on 3 Apr 2008 22:03
General Schvantzkopf wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:16:26 -0400, Blattus Slafaly ‰ ⁜ ☺ ♞ wrote:
>
>> General Schvantzkopf wrote:
>>> On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:42:45 -0400, Blattus Slafaly ‰ ⁜ ☺ ♞ wrote:
>>>
>>>> kid wrote:
>>>>> Can someone help me find a linux compatible motherboard? It needs to
>>>>> be
>>>>> amd x2 because I already have the processer.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Avoid onboard devices like built in ethernet, half modems, video,
>>>> IrD, bluetooth, WIFI and stuff like that. The motherboard drivers CD
>>>> usually don't have Linux drivers.
>>>> Get add on cards that Linux supports.
>>> This is absolutely wrong. Ethernet controllers all work out of the box
>>> as do virtually all graphics chips. WiFi is the only thing you have to
>>> be careful of but that's easy too, Intel works, Broadcom doesn't.
>>> Nobody cares about WinModems anymore so that's a non-issue.
>> You need correction. I have a PCCHIPS A31G and the tulip Ethernet
>> drivers does not work very well on the built in device. It was slow and
>> froze many times. I had to disable it on BIOS. I had to add a Netgear
>> card which works very well.
>
> You went out of your way to find incompatible equipment. All of the
> mainstream chipset vendors (Intel, AMD, Nvidia, VIA), are completely
> Linux compatible. The mainstream Ethernet chips are compatible also. The
> Tulip Ethernet chip was from DEC which designed it the mid-90s, it's not
> used on modern motherboards, however if you Google it you will see that
> it did work in it's day which was a long long time ago.
>

Suse loaded up tulip, I didn't.


--
Blattus Slafaly ف ٣ :) ⅞
From: David R Brooks on 4 Apr 2008 09:06
John Thompson wrote:
> On 2008-04-03, David R Brooks <davebXXX(a)iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
>> OK, let's get specific here. My board seems unable to run the display in
>> 1440x900 mode (it works fine under "another OS"). Here are the details:
>> Machine setup:
>> Centos 5 2.6.18-53.el5xen i686
>> Display: Viewsonic VA1912w 1440x900
>> Motherboard: Intel D946GZIS (integrated graphics)
>>
>> System|Display|Hardware has monitor = generic LCD, 1440x900
>> chipset = Intel integrated i810, on
>> 82946GZ/GL board
>
> Have you used the 915resolution utility?
>
> http://www.geocities.com/stomljen/
>
> "915resolution is a tool to modify the video BIOS of the 800 and 900
> series Intel graphics chipsets. This includes the 830, 845G, 855G, and
> 865G chipsets, as well as 915G, 915GM, 945G, 946GZ, G965, and Q965
> chipsets. This modification is neccessary to allow the display of
> certain graphics resolutions for an Xorg or XFree86 graphics server."
>
Now this is surely some dumb newbie thing, in which case I apologise...
But I couldn't get 915resolution to run. Here's the transcript:

[root(a)localhost 915resolution-0.5.3]# ls
915resolution 915resolution.o chipset_info.txt
license.txt readme.txt
915resolution.c changes.log dump_bios Makefile
[root(a)localhost 915resolution-0.5.3]# ./915resolution -l
bash: ./915resolution: Permission denied
[root(a)localhost 915resolution-0.5.3]# sudo ./915resolution -l
sudo: unable to execute ./915resolution: Permission denied
[root(a)localhost 915resolution-0.5.3]#
[root(a)localhost 915resolution-0.5.3]#

As you can see, I logged in as root, & tried both directly and using
sudo. Both times, Centos reported "permission denied". The file is
marked as executable.

TIA
From: dillinger on 4 Apr 2008 09:53
Blattus Slafaly � ? ? ? wrote:
> General Schvantzkopf wrote:
>> On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:16:26 -0400, Blattus Slafaly � ? ? ? wrote:
>>
>>> General Schvantzkopf wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:42:45 -0400, Blattus Slafaly � ? ? ? wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> kid wrote:
>>>>>> Can someone help me find a linux compatible motherboard? It needs to
>>>>>> be
>>>>>> amd x2 because I already have the processer.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks in advance
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Avoid onboard devices like built in ethernet, half modems, video,
>>>>> IrD, bluetooth, WIFI and stuff like that. The motherboard drivers CD
>>>>> usually don't have Linux drivers.
>>>>> Get add on cards that Linux supports.
>>>> This is absolutely wrong. Ethernet controllers all work out of the box
>>>> as do virtually all graphics chips. WiFi is the only thing you have to
>>>> be careful of but that's easy too, Intel works, Broadcom doesn't.
>>>> Nobody cares about WinModems anymore so that's a non-issue.
>>> You need correction. I have a PCCHIPS A31G and the tulip Ethernet
>>> drivers does not work very well on the built in device. It was slow and
>>> froze many times. I had to disable it on BIOS. I had to add a Netgear
>>> card which works very well.
>>
>> You went out of your way to find incompatible equipment. All of the
>> mainstream chipset vendors (Intel, AMD, Nvidia, VIA), are completely
>> Linux compatible. The mainstream Ethernet chips are compatible also.
>> The Tulip Ethernet chip was from DEC which designed it the mid-90s,
>> it's not used on modern motherboards, however if you Google it you
>> will see that it did work in it's day which was a long long time ago.
>>
>
> Suse loaded up tulip, I didn't.
>
>

Right, I had the same problem, a pcchips motherboard with an onboard
davicom ethernet controller which is supposed to be tulip compatible.
My solution was to blacklist the tulip driver and allow the dmfe driver.
From: Scott Alfter on 4 Apr 2008 13:10
In article <47f564cd$0$12588$4c368faf(a)roadrunner.com>,
Blattus Slafaly � � � � � � <boobooililililil(a)roadrunner.com> wrote:
>General Schvantzkopf wrote:
>> This is absolutely wrong. Ethernet controllers all work out of the box as
>> do virtually all graphics chips. WiFi is the only thing you have to be
>> careful of but that's easy too, Intel works, Broadcom doesn't. Nobody
>> cares about WinModems anymore so that's a non-issue.
>
>You need correction. I have a PCCHIPS A31G and the tulip Ethernet
>drivers does not work very well on the built in device. It was slow and
>froze many times.

Your problem is more likely that you bought a PCChips motherboard than that
it had an Ethernet controller that's been well-supported on Linux just about
forever.

(That said, when I dropped an Intel DP35DP into the home workstation, I had
to upgrade the kernel to 2.6.23 to get the onboard (e1000e) network
controller working. Bleeding-edge components will be more likely to be
supported in newer kernels.)

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