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How can I find out if a motherboard is compatible?

PostPosted: Apr 15th, '21, 17:12
by banjo
I am thinking about building a new computer to install Mageia 8 onto. I am looking at a Gigabyte motherboard, GIGABYTE B460 AORUS PRO. Is there some place I can go to find out whether or not Mageia 8 will work on that board? In particular it would be nice if I could find out about drivers for the on-board Intel graphics since it is now very difficult to find dedicated graphics cards, but overall compatibility is important as well.

Is there a database or a website where I can look this up?

Thanks,
Banjo
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Re: How can I find out if a motherboard is compatible?

PostPosted: Apr 15th, '21, 17:31
by doktor5000
Not really, no. And the onboard graphics would be the least worrying, because for intel there's only one driver.
You might have more issues with ethernet and/or wifi depending what variant you buy.

FWIW here's a result for this board with a recent linux distro: https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=d40236931f

Re: How can I find out if a motherboard is compatible?

PostPosted: Apr 15th, '21, 20:03
by banjo
Thanks for the pointer to the mint results.

I will see if I can find out more from The Google.