I'm setting up a PC with a Gigabyte GA-60XET rev 1.0 motherboard (with PIII 800Mhz processor) and would like to know if the board is compatible with linux (2.6 series kernel).

http://active-hardware.com/english/r...d/ga-60xet.htm

thats a review of the board, it tells me this:

Chipset is intel:

ICH# are the part of the chipset that manages IDE, ICH2 is supported in linux, in fact if you have an intel chipset where the chipset manages the ide controller you are guarenteed that if it does nto work in linux it will fast, ICH2 is an older chipset (I think they are up to ICH6 now) so chipset/ide no problem

Overall in fact you can say support for intel 'stuff' is very good in linux, intel tires to support it when they can, and the equipment is common enough that a lot of people need/develop it.

the board does not use the standard onboard ac97 audio, it uses Creative CT-5880 on some models. to check for audio support look up the card in the alsa soundcard database and see if it is supported, here is the creative page: http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...ve_Labs#matrix
looks liek it uses the ens1371 module, just be sure to compile that into the kernel, or as a module. you can also get alsa-driver seperately and install it, but you can look up alsa install later.

In short: Yes the board should be fully supported

Thank you for the reply.

I will not be using the onboard sound module, So may have to force recognition of my PCI card. I've already done a test install (as a dual boot), and only Linux(SuSE and Slackware have been tried thus far) recognizes my graphics card (GeForce FX 5200) under my current hardware configuration. Even though the card is fully tested and is not faulty, Window's refuses to recognize the card, and forced recognition with the Nvidia drivers cause an infinite loop to occur in XP in anything but Safe Mode. (normal startup causes an infinite reboot loop)

So, Linux officially has better hardware support in my book. Yet anoher reason to use my Windows CD to play frizbee with the neighbors dog.

hmm, almost ANY distro should use an nvidia card just fine, on many you simply need to install it yourself.

I think you may have misunderstood my point. The Linux distro's DO recognize the card. I just brought up that point in my post to show that, for supported hardware, Linux actually has less problems with compatibility than Window's. I was actually pleasantly surprised that the GeForce didn't work with the motherboard under XP.

lol, yeah some hardware incompatiblities are from the drivers, not the actual device, in this case windows has the driver conflict, I find that is mor eoften the case than linux having them, but I have seen it in both