[lug] good amd motherboards for linux RH 71.

[Mark Horning]

lana emodsey wrote:
> 
> hi,
> i am looking for first-hand references about
> reliable, "works off the box", AMD duron or better
> motherboards to run under RH 7.1
> 
> i am considering both non-DDR and DDR options.  I
> understand the Duron cannot take advantage of DDR,
> but i am a bit fuzzy on that.  So, some education
> in that regard will be welcome.
> 
> i am open to recommendations/comments on boards
> with on-board support for net/video/sound.
> 
> TIA - lana
>
Hi lana,
  I'm kinda late to this thread, but I've found
my iwill kk266r-plus board with 512m pc133 and
1.4g Athlon was pretty much plug and play. I 
upgraded the hardware from an AMD K6-3-450 and
my old Linux install came right up (RH 7.1). 
The built-in sound was recognized no problem
(cmi8738 h/w 6 channel, 5.1 configuration).
  One of the things I was really impressed with
was the driver cdrom. When you boot from the 
cd it loads linux to allow you to create a 
floppy for the raid drivers which are included.
A small thing, but I was really impressed.

mark

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Mark Horning
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