On 2010-03-22, Frank Miles <f...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > with the RealTek chip, but as of now it's running fine - running the > Debian/testing (squeeze) with the 2.26.32 kernel, and the RealTek > driver out of nonfree.
I got the same kernel from backports and the network chip started to work. I'm still using old 3com pci card though. Haven't had time to check the audio yet. I think it's also Realtek something. You got it working? > The straight Intel board may be a better choice for most. I thought about that, but maybe Gigabyte had more pci slots or something that I thought that I would need in the future. > I needed the RS-232 port, which is available with the Gigabyte board > (external connector added) I got the connector from ebay. It was a nice surprise that the board actually had that, since I thought I would have to get a pci card with serial ports. > I'm getting a bit less than 1000 fps with glxgears on a 1920x1280 > monitor (DVI cable). Is this with intel driver? Did you have to compile the driver yourself? All the necessary requirements in testing yet? > With a moderate CPU load it's drawing around 50watts (not including > display) according to my KillAWatt - pretty darn good for a fairly > spiffy desktop! Besides, it's easy to cool. And because of that it's easy to get a really quiet machine. Pasi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrnhqf839.ers....@seepia.dyndns.org
