[LinuxBIOS] which motherboard would be the better choice

[Mike Dilworth]

hi all

I am soon to buy a new motherboard and I have narrowed my choice down to 2.  I am very interested in the LinuxBios project and am eager to "have a go".  My question is whihc of these two motherbords would be better to use for LinuxBios:

MS-7327 K9AGM2-FIH  http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=proddesc&maincat_no=1&cat2_n...

or the

Abit AN-M2HD http://www.abit.com.tw/page/uk/motherboard/motherboard_detail.php?pMODEL_NAM...

as you can tell I need the HDMI feature.

Other information:

On both I will use the AMD Athlon X2 3800+ AM2 CPU

MS-7327

uses AMI BIOS 
AMD 690G Northbridge and SB600 Southbridge
integrated ATi Radeon X1250 videocard 
Realtek High Definition Audio Driver
ATI System Drivers for RS480/RS482/RC410/SB600
AMD HDMI Audio Drivers
Realtek 10/100 LAN Drivers
ATI SB600 IDE RAID Driver
Realtek Gigabit Ethernet Drivers
from the photos it looks like this uses ??? its nt clear DIP BIOS???

Abit AN-M2HD
NVIDIA® GeForce®7050PV/nForce 630a 
from the pictures i think this uses a PLCC: Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier

this is about all i have to go on. Any pointers would be great.

tia

mike

[Uwe Hermann]

Hi Mike,

On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 05:19:24AM -0700, Mike Dilworth wrote:
> as you can tell I need the HDMI feature.

Hm, I don't know much about HDMI. Would that need some special init in
the BIOS? Do we have support for such things in LinuxBIOS?
> On both I will use the AMD Athlon X2 3800+ AM2 CPU
>
> MS-7327
>
> uses AMI BIOS 
> AMD 690G Northbridge and SB600 Southbridge
> integrated ATi Radeon X1250 videocard 
> Realtek High Definition Audio Driver
> ATI System Drivers for RS480/RS482/RC410/SB600
> AMD HDMI Audio Drivers
> Realtek 10/100 LAN Drivers
> ATI SB600 IDE RAID Driver
> Realtek Gigabit Ethernet Drivers
> from the photos it looks like this uses ??? its nt clear DIP BIOS???
>
> Abit AN-M2HD
> NVIDIA® GeForce®7050PV/nForce 630a 
> from the pictures i think this uses a PLCC: Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier

Both mainbaords are not yet supported, sorry. Neither are the chipsets
they use, so it'd be pretty much work to support them.

If you are willing to buy some other mainboard, one of the supported
ones (http://linuxbios.org/Supported_Motherboards) would be a good
choice, or have a look at the ones listed here:

http://linuxbios.org/Desktops

These mainboards are _not_ yet supported, but making them work would be a
lot easier as they use already-supported chipsets.

Uwe.