In my previous post, I forgot to mention, that I prefer Motherboard recommendations to be for AMD AM2 socket CPUs.
On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 19:29, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > I'm about to add two new LINUX boxes to my home network. I finally > convinced my daughter to move to LINUX and my son to use a dual-boot > machine (he still needs his Windows games). However, because of my kids' > technical level, these machines must run perfectly "out of the box". > Otherwise, I'll be spending too much time on up-keep. Both boxes will run > Mandriva 2007 (no distro wars please - I currently have two Mandriva 2006 > machines so I don't want to play around with other distros). At the moment, > I can think of two problems I've had in the past and would like to avoid. > > 1 - On my wife's machine, the on-board sound card (MCP51 AC97) only worked > after installing proprietary nVidia drivers. And even then, getting it to > use ALSA is a big problem. Without ALSA, sound doesn't work properly in the > Firefox Flash plugin. > > 2 - TV card - I have Flyvideo 2000 cards on two machines and have never > been able to get the tuner to work - I ended up using an old VCR as a > "MEMIR" to choose the TV channels. (BTW - not a hardware problem - the > cards work on a Windows machine). > > I would like suggestions for Motherboards and TV cards that don't have > these problems. > > I would also like to hear from anyone who can suggest a good and CHEAP UPS > with Linux shutdown support. I have a Mustek 600 USB. It is supposed to > work with LINUX but I was never able to set it up. > > Specifically, I'd like first-hand information, since unfortunately, I've > been disappointed in the past by inaccurate claims that certain hardware > works in LINUX. > > TIA -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Sent by KMail (KDE 3.4.2) on LINUX Mandriva 2006 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
