I am looking at building a machine on a shoestring, actually using some existing parts and blah blah, you get the idea.
I have decided I want to go down the Athlon route again and have been looking up boards to see what has given people fits when used with linux. NOTE: I don't intend to go down the overclocking path, as I just don't have the patience to see how far I can "push it" One board that has shown favorable reviews for quality and reliability, the ECS K7S5A, which includes AC97 audio (which is supposed to be the same across al boards is it not?). "SiS 7012 PCI" are the specs from the ECS website. And a built-in NIC, which according to the ECS site is a: "SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet". After digging into these two items, I found links to driver info for the SiS900 NIC which has apparently been supported for some time, both on the ECS site and on the web. However the the SiS7012 search didn't fare as well. With Skippy's recent posts on the subject of AC97 sound I am concerned it won't work. Along those lines, can these AC97 devices be disabled? I am wondering if this thing will mung up or otherwise interfere with my ability to use a known functional sound card based. Can anyone shed some light on this? I stopped paying attention to Hardware for too long and am playing catch up. -- Linux SxS [http://hal.humberc.on.ca/~mrcn0031/sxs/] _______________________________________________ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc ->http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
