-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/30/07 22:44, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 10:09:23AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: >> I just built a system with an ASUS M2N2-SLI motherboard and an AMD64 >> cpu. It looks very good so far. I have Etch running from a netinst. >> >> The ASUS installation CD contains a directory for Linux giving links to >> several websites to setup audio and 64 bit operation. I haven't checked >> these out yet but find it encouraging that a Linux directory is included >> on the CD. > > You won't be needing it. I use straight debian packages for everything. > Stock kernel but I do use the nvidia video drivers for X: much better > deinterlacing and resizing of DVDs. E.g. screen is 1600 x 1200 @ 85 Hz, > watch The Sound of Music in VLC, full-screen, deinterlace-blend. Far > better fine detail (e.g. edge of a candle frame, wrinkles on the faces, > facial expression) with the nvidia driver than the nv. Less load on the > CPU too.
What video card do you use? > Sound is stock alsa with the usual alsa-config and alsa-mixer. Of > course, with Etch amd64, there is nothing to 'set up' about 64-bit > operation. > > This is on my Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe MB, Athlon 3800+ single core, single 1 > GB DDR2 800 ram, dual Seagate SATA 80 GB drives. > > Note to the OP. You want to use a few IDE devices. This board only has Am I misunderstanding? Why should he use multiple IDE devices if the mobo only has one IDE port? > one IDE port (hda and hdb). It has lots of SATA and an eSATA, lots of > USB, firewire, great sound, and it will manage the case fans. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGDpPYS9HxQb37XmcRAnXmAJ9W8s8Ac+Z1lClK+I9b92Cgb42pSACgk4Zj loxEST3P1j8GHcP3lplnOuo= =jn0Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
