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At 14:28 8-6-2001 -0400, Nathan J. Mehl wrote:
>In the immortal words of Seth Mos (knuffie@xs4all.nl):
> >
> > Ahh, I sea that it has a via chipset onboard. Include warning neon sign 
> <here>
>
>Argh, I was afraid that was going to be the answer.  Sigh.

I'm sorry. If AC can't get VIA to cooperate, what's next?

>Unfortunatly, if you want to run a socket-A athlon system (which is by
>a long yard the best bang-for-buck solution out there), there really
>aren't too many alternatives at the moment.  AMD makes their own
>chipsets, but they're basically only doing so under duress, and they
>have a tendency to pull them from the market the moment anybody else
>starts shipping in quantity.

It's fairly undocumented.

> > I suggest getting your newest bios and try to build and install a newer
> > kernel. The newer kernels have better handling of the via chipset.
>
>Okay, BIOS update is easy.  New kernel might be a bit harder, as all
>of the xfs patches on sgi's ftp site are for 2.4.2/2.4.3 -- can they
>be cleanly applied to 2.4.5?

Checkout the CVS. That one is linux-2.4.6-pre1-xfs.
There is also a patch against a vanilla 2.4.5 on the ftp server.

Note: Oss.sgi.com was/is having a hard time could be unreachable for the 
moment.

> > I'm gonna wait for a nVIDIA nForce mainboard, yummi :P
>
>Heh, that'll probably be my next upgrade, but that's still a good six
>months out...

Asus A7N266something boards could be showing up in stores around you in 
june/juli. Let's hope that nVIDIA will produce the same kind of performance 
drivers or patches that make it possible to play quake3 under linux ;-)
There is a link to a 4 board nForce roundup on http://www.tweakers.net/ (in 
dutch but it has lot of links :-)

I want one.

Greetings

--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.