On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Larry Fletcher wrote: >I would like to upgrade from a 486 to Duron based system, but I don't >want to have to compile a kernel. After reading the following it looks
Nothing stopping you: the Duron uses the Intel 80386 instruction set with a LOT of additions. Yopu just own't get some of the benefits of a Duron is all... >like the standard kernel would work. Am I right or would I be better >off with a Celeron based system? Whichever trips your trigger.... > Larry > >On Feb 21, 2001, studenten wg wrote: >> hi !! >> >> i have a k7m and the onboard sound worked fine with the standard "potato" >> modules... >> it's the via68xxx and ac97 (insert them with modconf).... >> >> i now have a 2.4.1 kernel and compiled the same modules and it still works... >> >> at my first install, i had in mind that the onBoard sound was complicated ( i >> tried that with suse 6.2 one year ago ) so i first compiled the alsa-drivers >> for the via686xxx and that worked also fine (then i just tried the kernel >> modules and kicked alsa )... >> >> hope i could help... >> >> peter > > > -- I can be immature if I want to, because I'm mature enough to make my own decisions. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED]