Lucky for me the after further investigation the EPIA M2 seems to meet
my requirements perfectly. I was wondering though, the AMI BIOS that
comes on the board is used to switch between the video output modes and
many other hardware features. Are these settings now configured through
Linux then since LinuxBIOS does minimal hardware configuration? Or are
they still setup in the BIOS (LinuxBIOS), or are they not supported
currently?
Thanks,
Michael Robinson
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Hendricks David W. wrote:
Right now I'd have to say the best supported mainboards currently are VIA
EPIA M2 and Opteron mainboards using the AMD8111 southbridge. Asus does weird
things with their SMbus and hasn't been very cooperative in the past with
documentation, so I would not recommend that you risk money on them.
Though if you have a high threshold for pain, you can try one of the newer
VIA chipsets like the KT400 and hope they're generous enough with
documentation to complete a port. Some other VIA stuff is supported, so
that might help with a new port.
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Michael Robinson wrote:
Ron,
I'm not sure what mobo I'm going to use yet, before I buy one I want to
make sure it's at least reasonably possible to get LinuxBIOS running on
it. I've heard that the Asus SiS mobos won't work because of the flash
chip. Is this just because of the pinout or is it because of actual
software compatibility. I can always solder my own socket onto the
board if necessary. I've been looking at the Asus boards and most of
the compatible boards on your site seem to use the SiS chipset that many
of the Asus's do. Can you give me any insight on the chip compatibility
problem? Most of the SiS chips in the Asus boards seem very close in
model number to the ones you guys have got working.
Thanks,
Michael Robinson
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ron minnich wrote:
it depends on the chipset type. Can you give us some lspci output and we
can see what is possible?
ron
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