Hello, I have an ASUS A7V133 motherboard. I've been using Redhat 7.1 for a few months and now I am already pissed off with RPM. (First I was pissed off with the RPM system, and now I am pissed off, because the rpm program itself is causing segmentation faults. And now if I try to re-install rpm, I get some depency problems.) Anyways, it's a mess and to keep the long story short, I'm switching to Debian.
I had some trouble with my ASUS A7V133 motherboard. The VIA on-board controller (vt82c686b) never worked, even with the most recent kernel (2.4.6). I got the on-board promise controller to work though (PDC20265). It works with kernel 2.4.2-2 and up. But what about the older kernels? I just ordered Debian potato 2.2r3 in the mail, and I just realized that it only has 2.2.19? or something like that, which came out on March 26th, and the 2.4.2 came out on February 21st, and I guess the redhat 2.4.2-2 version came out a little after? Anyways, I'm getting Debian in the mail in a few days, and I'm a little impatient. I want to know from experience if people have been able to get Debian potato 2.2r3 to work "out-of-the-box" with their on-board Promise chip on the A7V133. I want to read up about any tricks I might have to do in order to get my Debian to work. Oh by the way, I popped in an old Corel Linux CD as well as an old Stormix 2000 CD, which are debian-based and use a slightly older 2.4.2 kernel. I couldn't get them to even see the hard drive during install. It said I had to valid devices to install to. There must be a specific point in the kernel lifetime where this was fixed. Either that, or the bug is still around. cc: to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, D. Grant