Re: most linux friendly motherboard chipset

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sat Oct 28 2006 - 08:08:08 EST


On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 04:32:23PM -0700, Alex Davis wrote:
> I'm preparing to build a brand new 64-bit machine, I am currently leaning toward AMD 64x2.
> I've read that NVidia, along with (silent) data corruption issues, can be a bit of a pain
> to get working under Linux. Anyone have any experience with ULi, ATI, or SiS?
>
> Note: I'm not entirely ruling out Intel.

If you don't want builtin graphics and prefer AMD Nvidia seems to be a fair
choice.

If you however want builtin-in graphics there absolutely no way around
intel. In fact if you want to do anything graphics-related with Linux
and intel graphics (which only comes built-in) is the only sane choice.
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