Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:18 PM, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
So it is HCL not AMD. ALWAYS if you want good service get a small vendor. The big guys are full of hype n hotair and outsource everything to the small guys minus the profit. All the money you pay is just to cover jazzy ads about cows and bulls on BBC. And if you are wise get the mobos and build the boxes your self.
Right blame HCL for the lack of drivers. The driver issue we face is simply because the open source drivers dont work well and the proprietary NVidia ( now merged with AMD ) work like _ _ _ _.
We are diverting from the thread. The issue is about service support provided by motherboard manufacturers in case of a breakdown. Anyway, GNU compatibility is not just dependent on the chipset but also the BIOS of the motherboard. That is why 2 Intel 845 boards of different types will not have the same result in GNU. I faced this problem when trying out GLVA, GVSR etc. One of them ?? would not give screen resol. beyond 640x480 when installed out of the box. Similarly with AMD boards, it varies from case to case and on chipsets.
About 2 years ago I had supplied 2 systems with AMD Dual Core 4200+ and Asus A2NSLi(?) and just for kicks I tried out an Ubuntu 5.10 or 6.06 live CD and got a screen resol of 1900xSomething on the 19" CRT monitor. The display card was an add-on nVidia quadro fx with 512 MB RAM.
Last year in December I had a tough time installing GNU on an AMD machine with VIA chipsets on an Asus board. Some of my CDs would not even get detected as present. This even after trying another CD drive. Later it would not allow me to make a partition bigger than 10 to 12 GB. Finally Kubuntu 7.04 was installed and it is working fine with Samba for LAN browsing and Windows printer sharing.