On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:59:00AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: >> by the way, any baddies when it comes to mobo chipset? > >Nforce chipsets. AFAIK you need a non-free driver to make the LAN chip >work.
'in the beginning' there was problems with the VIA IDE controller drivers (ie, my chipset, a year or two ago) used on some boards for amd CPUs. I'm now running a 2.4.20 kernel with compile option CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y and while I have no problems with disk access, I'm not convinced all problems were addressed for the floppy drive. I cannot always run fdformat /dev/fd0 (and I don't have removed media mounted) but rebooting fixes it. I'm not sure exactly which components are relevant but am guessing 'Apollo Super South' 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP] 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40) 00:07.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40) // George -- GEORGE GEORGALIS, System Admin/Architect cell: 347-451-8229 Security Services, Web, Mail, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Multimedia, DB, DNS and Metrics. http://www.galis.org/george -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
