Well, I've done it this time :-< It seemed time to upgrade from my AthlonXP so I bought a new motherboard (ASUS M2A-VM HDMI), cpu (AMD 64 X2 5000), and memory (2GB DDR2 800). With all the new hardware, my hopes were high!!
Then I removed the old mobo/cpu/ram from this workstation and installed the new and things weren't as rosy as I'd hoped :-< Problem 1 - ethernet controller. The Realtek 8168 didn't seem to have a linux driver compatible with my 2.6.22 kernel. Not a big deal as I could use my old ethernet card and solve the problem later. Problem 2 - video. The ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 seems to have only minimal support (VGA - 640x480x8) using the latest drivers in portage, i.e. ati-drivers-8.40.4. I figured I could get at least 1024x768 using generic ATI support (with better resolution in the future when up-to-date drivers are available). Problem 3 - really low hard drive performance. I presume it's just tweaking that can be done after (if?) the video problem can be corrected. Questions: Anybody have experience with this board? Anybody have it working well? What drivers are you using? Thanks. David -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
