Hi! > From: Al Bogner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sorry for this offtopic posting, but after a lot of problems with a XP 2400+ > and a nforce2-board (Asus A7N8X), which some of you remember probably, I > decided to change the chipset of the motherboard. Which chipset or > motherboard would you recommend for a XP 2400+. I would like to use SuSE 8.2 > and the SuSE-kernel 2.4.21 or to compile a 2.4.21 vanilla-kernel.
You can't go wrong with an AMD chipset. I've never thought much of the VIA chips (problems abound with those it seems - the archives of this group should have quite a few horror stories) Alas, from what I've seen the best (but slightly more expensive) way to get the AMD chipset is on a dual cpu board. You don't have to run multiple cpus of course so you can save a bit of money that way. For up to the 2600+ cpus the Gigabyte GA-7DPXDW-P is a real nice board. Overall though the best board at the moment appears to be the Tyan 2466 (which has the benefit of an extra PCI slot compared to the others). > I searched the kernel changelog and found a few changes in the last time, but > > o Add missing via82xxx PCI ID > o add the via ide ident > o fix a race and a comment in via_audio > o later VIA apic > o correct handling of VIA PCI and of IDE legacy irq > o add 450NX streaming quirk, add via northbridge detect > o AGP support for VIA P4X333 boards > o AGP support for VIA KT400 Note the number of quirks, etc for the VIA chips ;( There might be single cpu boards that use the AMD chipset - if so one of those would, I think, save you some grief. For a bit more money a dual cpu board would give expansion capability later on, a pair of MP2400+ (or faster) cpus would be quite a boost ;) Cheers, Steven Schultz ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users