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 V

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

Re: VIA VT8237A Southbridge Advice

2007-02-09 Thread Grok Mogger
about problems with the board's southbridge. It's a 'VIA VT8237A'. I went to kernel.org and started looking through the change logs wondering if perhaps I'd be able to find something about support being added to the kernel for this chipset. Lo and behold, I did! I se

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&

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 '

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

VIA VT8237A Southbridge Advice

2007-02-09 Thread Grok Mogger
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 w

Re: G965 Chipset & ICH8 Southbridge Support

2006-10-21 Thread Alan Chandler
On Friday 20 October 2006 20:03, Fernando Gonzalez wrote: > Hi, users of debian, im a little newbie in gnu/linux, i recently bought an > Intel Mobo (DG965WH) with the G965 Chipset, ICH8 Southbridge and Marvell > IDE controller, im interested in only install debian in this machine that &

Re: G965 Chipset & ICH8 Southbridge Support

2006-10-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 03:03:40PM -0400, Fernando Gonzalez wrote: > Hi, users of debian, im a little newbie in gnu/linux, i recently bought an > Intel Mobo (DG965WH) with the G965 Chipset, ICH8 Southbridge and Marvell IDE > controller, im interested in only install debian in this machin

G965 Chipset & ICH8 Southbridge Support

2006-10-20 Thread Fernando Gonzalez
Hi, users of debian, im a little newbie in gnu/linux, i recently bought an Intel Mobo (DG965WH) with the G965 Chipset, ICH8 Southbridge and Marvell IDE controller, im interested in only install debian in this machine that im going to build, but i found out that G965 and ICH8 has problems with some

Re: ATI's SB400 Southbridge - Linux support

2006-10-16 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 02:15 -0700, michael bailey wrote: > Please does anyone know of any good Linux support > for ATI's SB400 southbridge on their Radeon Xpress > 200 chipset ? > > I have a Debian Sarge system (kernel level 2.4.27) > and want to use ATI's Xpresws

ATI's SB400 Southbridge - Linux support

2006-10-14 Thread michael bailey
Please does anyone know of any good Linux support for ATI's SB400 southbridge on their Radeon Xpress 200 chipset ? I have a Debian Sarge system (kernel level 2.4.27) and want to use ATI's Xpresws 200 chipset with an AMD ATHLON 64. Would I need to update

Re: Southbridge

2004-02-27 Thread Tom Badran
On Fri 27 February 2004 01:54, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 13:58, Tom Badran wrote: > > How can i find out (prefereably from software) which southbridge my > > motherboard uses. lspci and lshw dont seem to have what i need, and > > i cant find it a

Southbridge

2004-02-26 Thread Tom Badran
How can i find out (prefereably from software) which southbridge my motherboard uses. lspci and lshw dont seem to have what i need, and i cant find it anywhere on the net/in documentation. Thanks Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Southbridge

2004-02-26 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 06:58:02PM +, Tom Badran wrote: > How can i find out (prefereably from software) which southbridge my > motherboard uses. lspci and lshw dont seem to have what i need, and i > cant find it anywhere on the net/in documentation. > > Thanks > > T

Re: Southbridge

2004-02-26 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 13:58, Tom Badran wrote: > How can i find out (prefereably from software) which southbridge my > motherboard uses. lspci and lshw dont seem to have what i need, and i > cant find it anywhere on the net/in documentation. DO you know what Model/Brand it is? Is it P

On Woody: (No) Sound with VIA 686a Southbridge, AC 97

2003-08-14 Thread Caidence
-- Am I missing something? The ALSA package in Woody is marked beta. I'm still slightly new to Debian; is it possible that the Stable package set can still have problems, and I should be looking forward to the Testing set? VIA also supports drivers for their southbridg

Re: On Woody: (No) Sound with VIA 686a Southbridge, AC 97

2003-08-14 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 15:51, Tom White wrote: > Caidence, > > Your best bet is definitely a kernel upgrade. It is possible to get > the VIA Southbridge to work under an older kernel using Alsa, but it's > something of a pain. The one time I did it it took me quite a few h

Re: On Woody: (No) Sound with VIA 686a Southbridge, AC 97

2003-08-09 Thread Tom White
Caidence, Your best bet is definitely a kernel upgrade. It is possible to get the VIA Southbridge to work under an older kernel using Alsa, but it's something of a pain. The one time I did it it took me quite a few hours to figure out exactly what had to go into /etc/modutils/snd an

Re: On Woody: (No) Sound with VIA 686a Southbridge, AC 97

2003-08-09 Thread Wolfgang Fischer
On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 22:20:12 +0200, Caidence wrote: > I've had this large tangle with getting my sound to work. I know it > works, I had it working before with support compiled into the kernel... > but I recompiled the kernel, and forgot the working settings and didn't > save the config, so it's

On Woody: (No) Sound with VIA 686a Southbridge, AC 97

2003-08-04 Thread Caidence
-- Am I missing something?   The ALSA package in Woody is marked beta.  I'm still slightly new to Debian; is it possible that the Stable package set can still have problems, and I should be looking forward to the Testing set?   VIA also supports drivers for their southbridg

Re: Can I add sound with an unrecognised SouthBridge?

2002-12-11 Thread Lourens Steenkamp
Lourens replying to Tim Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I bought a new m/b and CPU a week ago. An Epox 8K5A2 which has > a KT333 Northbridge and a VT8235 Southbridge. > > Initially I could not get X to work, with a Nvidia Geforce2 > MX4

Can I add sound with an unrecognised SouthBridge?

2002-12-09 Thread Tim Wood
I bought a new m/b and CPU a week ago. An Epox 8K5A2 which has a KT333 Northbridge and a VT8235 Southbridge. Initially I could not get X to work, with a Nvidia Geforce2 MX400, but saw something suggesting I should move from my 2.4.17 kernel to the 2.4.19. I do not remember what the reason