Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Jul 2001 15:05:47 -0400 (EDT) | From | Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Suitable Athlon Motherboard for Linux |
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On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Joseph Mathewson wrote:
> Having heard the various horror stories about the VIA PCI data corruption > bugs, and watching one Via based machine destroy itself with a Mandrake 8.0 > 2.4.3, I was just wondering if anyone had a suggestion for an Athlon > motherboard that works reliably under Linux (I don't think all the issues > have been cleared up in the kernel yet?). There must be quite a few Linux > Athlon users out there - what boards are you using and with what success? > > I can't see much alternative to Via chipsets in the Ahtlon market, other > than all-in-one-graphics-sound-network jobbies that, from previous > experience (namely the i810), are also best avoided. > > Joe.
I have a D-700 on an Asus A7V (VIA 82C686A) with BIOS revision 1007 running Red Hat 7.1 with kernel 2.4.3-12. Stability seems to be fairly good, with occasional lockups in XFree86. If you need more details, feel free to ask.
-- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ignacio@openservices.net>
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