Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 9 May 2001 12:22:17 -0400 (EDT) | From | God <> | Subject | Re: Question: Status of VIA chipsets and 2.2 kernels |
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On Wed, 9 May 2001, Robert Cohen wrote:
> From: Robert Cohen <robert@coorong.anu.edu.au> > > I am thinking of buying a machine with a via chipset and I wan't to know > how stable it is likely to be with Linux. > I would appreciate it if someone who know's whats going on can give a > report on the state of play > as regards to all the problems and their current status with 2.2 kernels > (and 2.4 if their feeling energetic).
Hi Robert,
Right now one of my boxes (gaming box) is running off of :
OS : Linux Distro : Slackware 7.1 Kernel : 2.4.3 SMP
Mother Board: MSI KT7 Pro 2-A Chipset : VIA KT133 Processor : AMD Duron 800 Mhz (Not OC'd and not modified)
Hard disks : Maxtor 5T060H6 (60 Gigger / 7200 RPM / UDMA100) : Quantum Fireball SE2.1A (2.1G / ??? RPM / UDMA33) RAM : 128M DIMM, PC133 Video Card : Geforce2 GTS, 32M DDR Network Card: I forget what I put in there.. hrmm
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 VP_IDE: chipset revision 6 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later VP_IDE: User given PCI clock speed impossible (66), using 33 MHz instead. VP_IDE: Use ide0=ata66 if you want to force UDMA66/UDMA100. VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:07.1 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:DMA hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL SE2.1A, ATA DISK drive hdb: Maxtor 5T060H6, ATA DISK drive hdd: LTN403L, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: 4124736 sectors (2112 MB) w/80KiB Cache, CHS=1023/64/63, UDMA(33) hdb: 120103200 sectors (61493 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=7476/255/63, UDMA(100) hdd: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache, UDMA(33)
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0305 (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 8305 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super] (rev 40) 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (rev 06) 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B USB (rev 16) 00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B USB (rev 16) 00:07.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40) 00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super AC97/Audio] (rev 50) 00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT86C100A [Rhine 10/100] (rev 06) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV15 (Geforce2 GTS) (rev a3)
Module Size Used by NVdriver 628304 29 via82cxxx_audio 17120 1 ac97_codec 7648 0 [via82cxxx_audio] parport_pc 22608 1 (autoclean) lp 5296 1 (autoclean) parport 29312 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] via-rhine 10272 1
All in all .... pretty stable. I have problems with lock ups but I believe that to be the on board sound card (AC97 crap) as any time it does lock (especially under Wine/Half-Life), errors are usually reported to the effect of the sound card timed out or something. That and it periodicaly locked up in windows too (when I was running it).
Hope this answers your question. Just make sure you have the latest 2.4.x kernel as things are changing rather fast ... (so much for a feature freeze .. heh .. :) ..... btw, what ever happened to the idea of creating a database of what runs with what ? Personally I think redhat did it wrong with their update network thingy ... (it has NEVER been able to login successfully .. heh ...). But would giving the user an option to send an email off after an install / upgrade basicaly listing what their system is, be a good thing? Something like what pine does? ....
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