Am Montag 27 August 2007 05:44:55 schrieb Philip Webb: > 070826 Aaron Clark wrote: > > On 20-Aug-07, at 3:06 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > >> (1bd) The mobo listed is described on the ASUS site under 'VGA' as > >> "Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 > >> integrated High-definition video processing > >> with maximum resolution 2048 x 1536 bpp @ 75 Hz ; > >> maximum shared memory 256 MB ; supports OpenGL 1.5, Pixel Shader 2.0 > >> ". It appears that with this mobo I don't need a separate graphics card > >> unless I want very high-performance gaming or similar; > >> also, it uses open-source drivers (can anyone confirm?). > > > > I've only had experience with the Intel GMA 950, which Lspci lists > > as "Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller": > > it's worked fantastic for me so far with the opensource driver > > on a Fedora 7 box. In xorg.conf, the driver is "intel" instead of > > "i810"; iirc the "intel" driver is newer > > and has better support for the newer chipsets. > > I've taken a further look around & this deserves a new thread. > Thanks for this info, which is also very useful. > > > OTOH, I do have a couple of words of caution about the Motherboard. > > The new Intel chipsets do not provide an IDE controller > > so motherboard manufacturers have to go get a 3rd party IDE/PATA > > controller if they want that support on their Intel motherboards. > > My new HDD wb SATA : does that need an IDE controller ? > There wb a DVD/CD-RW drive too : perhaps that might need one ? > It's not an issue I've encountered before.
If you buy new drives, buy SATA. Although IDE is fast enough for optical drives, the cables block the airflow in your case and with SATA you don't need to think about hdparm tuning, jumpers and such like. Furthermore the next generation of mainboards might not have IDE controllers at all! The drive you've listed in your original post is SATA. I've got the same and although I experienced some trouble (after trying udftools it did no longer react to any commands) it should work out of the box. Do you use floppy drives? They should use the IDE controller, too. I'm not sure, though.
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