> Thank you all for your replies. But can I ask again, are there any issues
using
> this (and the sis chipset) with Linux?
I have a severe and potentially unwarranted distaste for SiS anything. The
chipsets they develop are the cheepest and nastiest things I've encountered.
*In general* if you dont or can't obtain a specially developed sis driver
for whatever-it-is, then it is totally and completely incompatible with any
of the industry standards for that product making it unusuable with
'standard' drivers.
One of the classic examples from this company from hell is their laughable
'vga''chipsets. It would be accepted by most that the 1st 16 'modes' of vga
are 'industry standard'. Meaning that they are the modes as defined by IBM
on the original product and garanteed to work on *any* pc. Until that is,
this awful SiScrap hit the deck where they decided to save 2 cents and
simply not have them. Makes booting with a Sis vga card an excercise in
futility.
Other undocumented features from this shitset are stealing real memory from
the top of your real memory because again, they don't like the thought of
paying 0.0002 cents for the drill holes in their pcb's to accomodate on
board memory. Thus, although SiSshit claims to be 5ns compatible: try it
some time.
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