Pigeon, When I type lspci I get: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02) 00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 04) 00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c900B-TPC [Etherlink XL TPC] (rev 04) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV4 [Riva TnT] (rev 04)
So it doesn't look as if I have a VIA chipset. Perhaps this one also has problems. Thanks, Ric On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 07:23:57PM +0000, Pigeon wrote: > On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 07:49:29AM -0800, Richard Otte wrote: > > Pigeon, > > Is there a command one can type to determine what type of chipset or > > motherboard I have? I tried looking at dmesg and didn't see anything > > useful. The machine is an old pentium II Dell that looks to have (from > > dmesg) a 447 MHz CPU with bus speed of 99.4 MHz. > > Thanks, > > Ric > > lspci will tell you what chipset you're using. Here's mine: > > $ lspci > 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 03) > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP] > 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40) > 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 06) > 00:07.4 SMBus: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40) > 00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio Controller >(rev 50) > 00:09.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 86C326 (rev 0b) > 00:0a.0 SCSI storage controller: Initio Corporation 360P (rev 02) > 00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c900B-Combo [Etherlink XL Combo] (rev >04) > 00:0f.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-7850 (rev 03) > > All those VIA Technologies entries are the ones to watch out for. As I > say, they don't always give trouble. Mine gives two ignorable > problems: occasional "spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7" messages, and > the need to set the APIC to PIC mode in the BIOS to avoid lockups on > boot. But it seems that there are others out there whose experience is > less happy. > > Pigeon > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]