Re: [gentoo-user] Motherboard support?

[Nilesh Govindarajan <contact@nileshgr.com>]

On 09/29/2011 04:46 AM, Dale wrote:
> Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
>> I'll be soon getting a new desktop.
>> I've fixed the CPU as AMD Phenom II 1075T
>>
>> These two motherboards came to my notice which support the above
>> processor: Gigabyte 880GM - GA 880GM-USB3L&  880GM-USB3
>>
>> How good is Linux support with those? If bad, what other mobos support
>> 1075T and Linux support is awesome?
>>
> 
> I used this site to get this:
> 
> http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/Giga-byte/GA-880GM-USB3
> 
> That's one of them and I think I saw another one from your list.  May I
> make a suggestion tho.  It looks like those have a built in video
> system, get a separate video card.  Of all the video issues I have ever
> had on Linux, it has been built in video cards.  There are other good
> reasons for this too, heat being one of them.
> 
> As to Gigabyte as a brand, I have a 770 based mobo and it works great. 
> It's worth every penny and then some.  I have also had good luck with
> Abit several years ago.  I have installed on a MSI before too and it was
> stable.
> 
> If you want to research other mobos, start here:
> 
> http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/
> 
> There are two ways to do this.  If you have the mobo and can, paste the
> output of lspci -n in the box.  If you are researching and don't have
> the mobo yet, click on the links on the left to see if the one you are
> looking for is in the list.  When researching a mobo, I find that site
> invaluable to say the least.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-)
> 

That's debian HCL, what about Gentoo? We compile the kernel ourselves man.
It would be better if we don't use debian/Ubuntu HCL to decide HW for
other distros, they're most popular ones and have lot of support from
hardware manufacturers, hence good support for hardware using
propreitary drivers which is seldom present in other distros.

-- 
Nilesh Govindarajan
http://nileshgr.com