> Jason Carson wrote:
>>> Jason Carson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I am considering upgrading to a 64 bit CPU but haven't decided on what
>>>> I
>>>> am going to buy. One of the motherboards I am looking at has a P55
>>>> chipset
>>>> so my question is will the P55 chipset work with Gentoo? If so where
>>>> in
>>>> menuconfig do I configure this?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> How about a link to the mobo. I been googling but p55 is also a
>>> network
>>> card or something. Sort of hard to weed them out.
>>>
>>> Dale
>>>
>>> :-) :-)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> It's the ASRock P55 Deluxe...
>>
>> http://www.asrock.com/MB/overview.asp?Model=P55%20Deluxe
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> I found this so far.
>
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_p55&num=4
>
> It appears to work. Still looking for the drivers tho. I have never
> had a Intel that I know of. Sort of poking in the dark here. Since it
> appears to be working, it may be that you will have to boot the CD and
> do a lspci -k to see what the CD is using.
>
> Dale
>
> :-) :-)
>
>
Thanks for that link. The preview concluded "At the end of the day, the
Intel platform will run fine under Linux, but there's a few hiccups right
now" which is fine because I won't be upgrading for another month so
hopefully all the problems will be fixed by them.
