I've been reading manuals for Mobos. and stumbles across something interesting.
An AsRock mobo with intel 1700 socket has one lonely reference to linux in a paragraph about resolving legacy USB issues.
So I wrote them and asked if the board was compatible with linux Ubuntu.
I wrote to Asus with a similar question about any of their intel socket 1700 mobos.
Both said no.
OK Well I've used ASUS boards for my last three builds; my Dell laptop inspiron is running Linux Ubuntu. I had to use a different setting in the BIOS but then it was all good
Linux seems to do just fine on most Mobos because the generic drivers are all compatible but the specialty drivers may not be. And it appears that no one is building drivers with Linux in mind.
I've read that AMD based graphics cards don't work and play well with Linux but Nvidia do.
Maybe what would be better than an effort to list hardware that is compatible we should focus on those that are not.
I've seen the lists of Mobo's that have been tested with Linux. An odd thing they all have in common is that none of the tested boards were tested on a distro more current than Ver 16. This informs me that the lists are woefully obsolete; useless, they are completely without value.
It might be easier to keep current, and more useful, and it might pose as a marketing inducement to manufacturers if we were spreading the word that XYZ manufacturer of some specific card or board was non compliant guaranteeing that no one who sees the list would buy it.
Marketing types are more sensitive to people spreading negative information than just about anything else.
We could even convince the mods to make it sticky.
Do you agree? What do you think?
An AsRock mobo with intel 1700 socket has one lonely reference to linux in a paragraph about resolving legacy USB issues.
So I wrote them and asked if the board was compatible with linux Ubuntu.
I wrote to Asus with a similar question about any of their intel socket 1700 mobos.
Both said no.
OK Well I've used ASUS boards for my last three builds; my Dell laptop inspiron is running Linux Ubuntu. I had to use a different setting in the BIOS but then it was all good
Linux seems to do just fine on most Mobos because the generic drivers are all compatible but the specialty drivers may not be. And it appears that no one is building drivers with Linux in mind.
I've read that AMD based graphics cards don't work and play well with Linux but Nvidia do.
Maybe what would be better than an effort to list hardware that is compatible we should focus on those that are not.
I've seen the lists of Mobo's that have been tested with Linux. An odd thing they all have in common is that none of the tested boards were tested on a distro more current than Ver 16. This informs me that the lists are woefully obsolete; useless, they are completely without value.
It might be easier to keep current, and more useful, and it might pose as a marketing inducement to manufacturers if we were spreading the word that XYZ manufacturer of some specific card or board was non compliant guaranteeing that no one who sees the list would buy it.
Marketing types are more sensitive to people spreading negative information than just about anything else.
We could even convince the mods to make it sticky.
Do you agree? What do you think?