On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 12:13:51AM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: | Would you prefer these motherboards to the more recent ones from the point | of view of stability under Linux? I'm thinking for example of the Asus | A7V266 and the A7V333, I think the former has the KT266A chipset, and the | latter the KT333 chipset, both from VIA? My impression is that the more | recent Athlon motherhoards have more dodgy support in general (needing to | patch kernels etc,) which I don't want to get into.
I recently picked up a machine with the KT266 chipset (and an AthlonXP
1800). The ready-made kernel-image-2.4.18-k7 kernel works great (once
I specified the correct root= :-)). The mobo was made by MSI, though,
not Asus.
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