New Motherboard

[Ioannis Vranos]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>   
>>>         I have had no success with the motherboard I now have with lots 
>>> of nVidia hardware. It has been prone to sudden crashes at just the 
>>> wrong time. I asked and got plenty of Ubuntu guys tell me they have 
>>> nVidia motherboards and they work fine! So it appears my board is 
>>> somehow bad.
>>>
>>>         So I decided to get a whole new motherboard and wound up with a 
>>> Gigibyte GA-MA78GM-S2H AM2 AMD ... that should let me put my current AMD 
>>> CPU and 2 GB of Ram onto the new board. It is plenty fast for this old 
>>> man and cost $100.00 at Newegg.
>>>
>>>         As it looks now I should find the Internet will come from the 
>>> new board, with no changes. The sound should not take any work to be 
>>> good. But the ATI video driver will be just like the nVidia hardware. 
>>> You must have a proper driver or it will not work. I have 
>>> "ati-driver-installer-8-3-x86.86_64.run" which I got from the ATI web 
>>> page. It will be I think just like the nVidia GOOD driver that caused my 
>>> computer to crash almost every time I turned on Firefox.
>>>
>>>         If the ATI motherboard has the same problem I will give up on 
>>> computers :-)
>>>     
>>
>> There is a company selling Linux workstations and servers. You can use
>> their hardware specifications to build your own Linux compatible PC.
>> Here's the link:
>>
>> http://www.aslab.com/
>>
>>   
>     They have this to say about nVidia hardware:
> 
> 
> The Nvidia binary driver is not supported and should never be used under 
> the *64-bit* edition of RHEL4 (Original or Update 1) or CentOS 4.0 & 4.1 
> due to an unsafe kernel change_page_attr interface. The driver is 
> supported under RHEL4 Update 2 or higher and CentOS 4.2 or higher.
> 
> Now I am not using 64 bit but it appears this company has had issues 
> with the nVidia binary just as I have.
> 
> Karl


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