On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Mithun Bhattacharya wrote: |Kingsly John wrote: | | |> Maybe you just got a defective piece or maybe a model specific problem. |> |> I've always found the VIA chipsets to be good. | | |Umm well I dont recall seeing a linux tested sticker anywhere VIA or |otherwise. It would be wonderful if we got stuff like that.
All companies that get their hardware tested by lhd.datapower.com (hope the URL is right) can put the linux tested logo on their box. | As for being model specific yes it could possibly be that since they |probably came in one bunch and I unfortunately got 3-4 such defective |motherboards :(. Tough luck! | It is interesting to note that the kernel recognizes a VIA |motherboard on bootup - I assume it has to do something different when |it detects a VIA motherboard. That's because it gives you more functionality for via chipsets. there's /proc/ide/via which contains all the information about devices connected etc... [kingsly@utopia kingsly]$ cat /proc/ide/via ----------VIA BusMastering IDE Configuration---------------- Driver Version: 3.29 South Bridge: VIA vt82c686a Revision: ISA 0x22 IDE 0x10 Highest DMA rate: UDMA66 BM-DMA base: 0xd800 PCI clock: 33MHz Master Read Cycle IRDY: 0ws Master Write Cycle IRDY: 0ws BM IDE Status Register Read Retry: yes Max DRDY Pulse Width: No limit --snipped info on each ide bus and devices on each of them -- | I am almost sure the kernel config has a section where I have the |option to enable a workaround for certain VIA chipset. Ah well I am |just probably biased against them ;). Like me and sis cards :) Kingsly _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
