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hope you can help me out here. I am trying to put together a cheap Red hat 9 PC. I have seen a good deal on a ECS K7SOM+ motherboard but I am not sure if RH9 supports the Ac 97 sound, onboard NIC and SIS 730d graphics.
Has anybody here got the above to work fine in RH9 or another distro?
in my experience, most on-board stuff works fine except video. the ac97 sound is supported fine, so are most on-board lan ports. the exception to the on-board video problems seem to be nVidia based onboard video cards. not only do they work, but nVidia is great about providing 3d drivers. just my .02
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Redhat 9 and ecs
