"Linux" motherboard

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 08:38:46PM -0500, Mike Newman wrote:
> I've had a lot of luck with mobos based on the NFORCE2 chipset. NVidia 
> produces (proprietary :P) Linux drivers for all of the neat extras, like 
> the nice inbuilt sound card (with hardware mixing) and LAN card.
> 
> Unfortunatley, many people (myself included) don't see proprietary 
> drivers as "supporting" GNU/Linux per se. But still, it works great, 
> it's very fast and most boards are fairly affordable to boot.

Well as for the nforce/nforce2 you can run the ethernet just fine with
the forcedeth driver (which is what I use) that was reverse engineered.
Sound you can at least get stereo ac97 level support in both OSS and
alsa using the i810 drivers.  If you want more you need to use the
proprietary drives, or get an sb live which has full open source
drivers.

Everything else: usb, firewire, sata, ide, etc, all works with standard
drivers.

Lennart Sorensen
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