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   omp.os.os2.misc:2843   
   From: Peter Brown    
      
   Hi Pierre   
      
   Pierre Jelenc wrote:   
   > Doug Bissett  writes:   
   >>   
   >> My suggestion is to check out the information at:   
   >>   
   >>> http://en.ecomstation.ru/hardware.php   
   >   
   > Unless I'm missing something, there are a few recent entries, and most of   
   > them printers, but nothing on recent motherboards, video cards, etc.   
   >   
      
      
   For recent graphics cards support you have the choice of SNAP in VBE    
   (VESA) mode or Panorama which is supposed to be an accelerated VESA    
   driver - not sure about that myself as my only attempts to install    
   eCS2.0GA with that driver ended in failure.   
      
   Recent mainboards may need ACPI support - part of eCS2.0GA - and you    
   want to avoid any mainboard that uses AHCI with no BIOS option to set    
   that to "compatibility/IDE".   
      
   Uniaud is probably your only choice for sound support.   
      
   Support for the nic may be problematic... Look for a mainboard using a    
   supported nic chipset. Mensys have developed a driver for current/recent    
   *wired* Intel nics and a Realtek driver is also being developed, see    
   http://svn.ecomstation.nl/multimac for details of chipsets supported by    
   these drivers. Also check if genmac offers support for the nic(s).   
      
      
   >> and select what you want that is known to work reasonably well with   
   >> eCS. Chances are very good, that what works with eCS will also work   
   >> with Linux   
   >   
   > The system will work with Linux, since it will come pre-loaded (at least   
   > one would hope so!) but it's eCS I'm worried about: hardware that's too   
   > recent or too odd.   
   >   
   > Pierre   
      
      
      
   So, basic advice: Look at mainboard specs and pick a mainboard that    
   looks like it has driver support for the various onboard devices.   
      
      
   Regards   
      
   Pete   
      
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