[LinuxBIOS] State of cheap motherboard support

[Marcelo Coelho]

Hi!

I've been following the development to give support to (new) cheap
motherboards, specifically the mcp55 based ones.

I'm thinking in buying an Asus M2NPV-VM, which uses the Chipset NVIDIA
GeForce 6150 + nForce 430.

Is this already supported?

Thanks for your help!
Marcelo

[Vlad C.]

--- Marcelo Coelho  wrote:
> I'm thinking in buying an Asus M2NPV-VM, which uses the Chipset
> NVIDIA
> GeForce 6150 + nForce 430.

I may be mistaken, but I think mcp55 corresponds to the nForce 500
series (590, 570, 550, 520). Given that the nForce 430 motherboard you
had in mind is already one generation old, it might not be the most
appealing for active development.

You can find a non-exhaustive list of other candidate desktop
motherboards on the following wiki page:

http://linuxbios.org/Desktops

Vlad

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[Marcelo Coelho]

> I may be mistaken, but I think mcp55 corresponds to the nForce 500
> series (590, 570, 550, 520). Given that the nForce 430 motherboard you
> had in mind is already one generation old, it might not be the most
> appealing for active development.

I think so too. I'm searching for a micro-atx motherboard with onboard
graphics. But i haven't found any that had the mcp55. The only ones
that I've found were with the nForce 4X0.

BTW, it looks like that sometimes LinuxBios also supports Via
chipsets. I'm gonna try to search for those also.

P.S.: The webpage is really good! Congrats!

2007/1/24, Vlad C. :
> --- Marcelo Coelho  wrote:
> > I'm thinking in buying an Asus M2NPV-VM, which uses the Chipset
> > NVIDIA
> > GeForce 6150 + nForce 430.
>
> I may be mistaken, but I think mcp55 corresponds to the nForce 500
> series (590, 570, 550, 520). Given that the nForce 430 motherboard you
> had in mind is already one generation old, it might not be the most
> appealing for active development.
>
> You can find a non-exhaustive list of other candidate desktop
> motherboards on the following wiki page:
>
> http://linuxbios.org/Desktops
>
> Vlad
>
> Need Mail bonding?
> Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users.
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