-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Two years ago I bought a Foxconn 45CM-S mainboard. Unfortunately before I bought it I failed to research adequately this board and other alternatives. In time I became unsatisfied with its performance. Lenny was and is rock-solid stable on my Lenovo R61, but not on my Foxconn desktop, which has a habit of crashing on average twice a day.
Extensive googling revealed that Foxconn has a reputation for buggy BIOSes, at least for some models. The googling also revealed that Gigabyte boards are favoured by some Linux users. I am consequently looking to replace the the Foxconn with a Gigabyte. The replacement board must be able use my current CPU and memory modules. The former is an Intel E2160 dual core (socket LGA775). The latter are two Crucial Rendition 1 gb DDR2 667/PC3500 240 pin memory modules. Several Gigabyte boards meet these requirements. I am concerned however about the north bridge chipsets on these boards. Both that Foxconn board and the Lenovo R61 use the 945 chipset, the driver for which is available in a Lenny package -- xserver-xorg-video-intel. While Gigabyte did have boards with the 945 I could not find any seller in Toronto who still had any in stock. The ones now available locally use Intel north bridge G31, G41, G45, P31, P43 and P45 series chipsets. (Intel seems to be the chipset manufacturer of choice for Gigabyte; the Gigabyte boards available in Toronto use only those chipsets.) One model, GA-G41M-ES2H, even integrates in it the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X4500. The Gigabyte website says that Linux compatible drivers for these chipsets must be downloaded either from Intel or a third party. I don't see in the Lenny package list drivers for these newer chipsets; so it would appear I would have to find them elsewhere. Has anyone any experience with boards using these chipsets? Advice about chipset drivers and mainboards suitable for Linux which meet my basic requirements would be welcomed. Regards, Ken Heard -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkvPKFQACgkQlNlJzOkJmTf14gCfd4BH9Av6fy2JlGtmLEoCPprN EwEAnixAR5bXX3FSM+OluYy4i1DkHA65 =as+V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/4bcf2855.5050...@heard.name
