Re: VIA VT8237A Southbridge Advice

2007-02-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 08:51:47PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Grok Mogger wrote: > > > > >Thanks for the advice. I have to admit, sounds a little scary for > >someone who has never compiled a kernel before. =\ But I may actually > >try it. > > There's a first time for

Re: VIA VT8237A Southbridge Advice

2007-02-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Grok Mogger wrote: Hey everyone, I'm looking into building a new machine. As for the motherboard, I'm interested in an ASUS 'A8V-VM SE'. Unfortunately, in Googling I've seen people complain about problems with the board's southbridge. It's a 'VIA VT8237A'. Unless there is first hand in

Re: VIA VT8237A Southbridge Advice

2007-02-09 Thread Nick Boyce
Grok Mogger wrote: > Nick Boyce wrote: > >> The latest Debian Weekly News [1] mentions there are already tentative >> plans to add updated kernels to Etch during its lifecycle, specifically >> to add support for new hardware ... yay :-) > > Very cool! Thanks for letting me know. Of course, 9 mon

Re: VIA VT8237A Southbridge Advice

2007-02-09 Thread Grok Mogger
Nick Boyce wrote: Grok Mogger wrote: Also, I have to say this whole problem I've stumbled on to seems kind of silly to me in a way. I love Debian's approach to stability and security, but why not at least keep adding hardware support to the kernel as it becomes available? Seems like it would

Re: VIA VT8237A Southbridge Advice

2007-02-09 Thread Nick Boyce
Grok Mogger wrote: > Also, I have to say this whole problem I've stumbled on to seems kind of > silly to me in a way. I love Debian's approach to stability and > security, but why not at least keep adding hardware support to the > kernel as it becomes available? Seems like it would make a lot of

Re: VIA VT8237A Southbridge Advice

2007-02-09 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Grok Mogger wrote: Thanks for the advice. I have to admit, sounds a little scary for someone who has never compiled a kernel before. =\ But I may actually try it. There's a first time for everything! And you'll have a better understanding of the kernel that way too.

Re: VIA VT8237A Southbridge Advice

2007-02-09 Thread Bruno Buys
Grok Mogger wrote: Bruno Buys wrote: Grok Mogger wrote: Hey everyone, I'm looking into building a new machine. As for the motherboard, I'm interested in an ASUS 'A8V-VM SE'. Unfortunately, in Googling I've seen people complain about problems with the board's southbridge. It's a 'VIA VT823

Re: VIA VT8237A Southbridge Advice

2007-02-09 Thread Grok Mogger
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 11:35:23AM -0500, Grok Mogger wrote: Hey everyone, I'm looking into building a new machine. As for the motherboard, I'm interested in an ASUS 'A8V-VM SE'. Unfortunately, in Googling I've seen people complain about problems with the board'

Re: VIA VT8237A Southbridge Advice

2007-02-09 Thread Grok Mogger
Bruno Buys wrote: Grok Mogger wrote: Hey everyone, I'm looking into building a new machine. As for the motherboard, I'm interested in an ASUS 'A8V-VM SE'. Unfortunately, in Googling I've seen people complain about problems with the board's southbridge. It's a 'VIA VT8237A'. I went to ker

Re: VIA VT8237A Southbridge Advice

2007-02-09 Thread Bruno Buys
Grok Mogger wrote: Hey everyone, I'm looking into building a new machine. As for the motherboard, I'm interested in an ASUS 'A8V-VM SE'. Unfortunately, in Googling I've seen people complain about problems with the board's southbridge. It's a 'VIA VT8237A'. I went to kernel.org and started

Re: VIA VT8237A Southbridge Advice

2007-02-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 11:35:23AM -0500, Grok Mogger wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I'm looking into building a new machine. As for the > motherboard, I'm interested in an ASUS 'A8V-VM SE'. > Unfortunately, in Googling I've seen people complain about > problems with the board's southbridge. It's