Re: New to list

2003-09-06 Thread Richard Smith
ron minnich wrote: Hmmm Dunno about the SMP. Ron and Eric perhaps can comment on that . I never messed with any of the smp stuff. Assuming the MSI board dosen't have something flaky with the SMbus to gain access to the SPD it should come up and "just work" YMMV of course. smp has been w

Re: New to list

2003-09-05 Thread ron minnich
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Richard Smith wrote: > Hmmm Dunno about the SMP. Ron and Eric perhaps can comment on that > . I never messed with any of the smp stuff. Assuming the MSI board > dosen't have something flaky with the SMbus to gain access to the SPD it > should come up and "just work"

Re: New to list

2003-09-05 Thread Richard Smith
ron minnich wrote: The serial ports (and other stuff) are handled by a Winbond W83977TF chip, which I suppose is connected to the PIIX4E's ISA bus... the 83977ef is supported already. What's the diff between a TF and EF? -- Richard A. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: New to list

2003-09-05 Thread ron minnich
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Mike Westfall wrote: > The serial ports (and other stuff) are handled by a Winbond W83977TF > chip, which I suppose is connected to the PIIX4E's ISA bus... the 83977ef is supported already. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PR

Re: New to list

2003-09-05 Thread Richard Smith
Jeff Noxon wrote: I have an MSI board with a 440BX (BXmaster), and also a Dell PWS 210. I'm particulary interested in getting the Dell to work. But the Dell boxes are SMP... Hmmm Dunno about the SMP. Ron and Eric perhaps can comment on that . I never messed with any of the smp stuff. Assu

Re: New to list

2003-09-05 Thread Jeff Noxon
I have an MSI board with a 440BX (BXmaster), and also a Dell PWS 210. I'm particulary interested in getting the Dell to work. But the Dell boxes are SMP... The MSI uses a Winbond W83977EF-AW, which is supported. Are most of the BX boards really generic enough that they can be made to work easily

Re: New to list

2003-09-05 Thread Richard Smith
Mike Westfall wrote: I don't see a superIO in your device listing though. What does your serial ports? Ok, I was blowing smoke. The serial ports (and other stuff) are handled by a Winbond W83977TF chip, which I suppose is connected to the PIIX4E's ISA bus... Correct. The southbrige will pass

Re: New to list

2003-09-05 Thread Mike Westfall
Mike Westfall wrote: Richard Smith wrote: I don't see a superIO in your device listing though. What does your serial ports? I'm assuming that legacy devices are taken care of by the PIIX4 southbridge (FW82371EB). But I'm probably just blowing smoke, 'cause I don't really know... Ok, I was

Re: New to list

2003-09-05 Thread Mike Westfall
Richard Smith wrote: I don't see a superIO in your device listing though. What does your serial ports? I'm assuming that legacy devices are taken care of by the PIIX4 southbridge (FW82371EB). But I'm probably just blowing smoke, 'cause I don't really know... --

Re: New to list

2003-09-05 Thread Mike Westfall
ron minnich wrote: this will probably work just fine. Hey, looks like you are from LANL, come by and say hello (we're in the ACL) Hey, cool. I'd love to see what you guys are up to. When would be a good time? On another note, the system I have here has its BIOS on a 256 kByte 32-pin PLCC flas

Re: New to list

2003-09-05 Thread Richard Smith
Mike Westfall wrote: OK.. Linux installed. Here's what I have: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge You appear to be good to go here. The 440 code in the LB 1 tree should just work. I don't see a superIO in your device listing though. What does your serial

Re: New to list

2003-09-04 Thread ron minnich
this will probably work just fine. Hey, looks like you are from LANL, come by and say hello (we're in the ACL) ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: New to list

2003-09-04 Thread Mike Westfall
Mike Westfall wrote: Gregg C Levine wrote: Hello from Gregg C Levine Mike, can you provide some information on this beast? What's its chosen processor? Also you'll need to run a "#lspci -v" for us (# mark for shell prompt). Oh, and as a side note, nice to see you here. OK, well I haven't actuall

Re: New to list

2003-09-04 Thread Mike Westfall
Gregg C Levine wrote: Hello from Gregg C Levine Mike, can you provide some information on this beast? What's its chosen processor? Also you'll need to run a "#lspci -v" for us (# mark for shell prompt). Oh, and as a side note, nice to see you here. OK, well I haven't actually got linux installed ye

RE: New to list

2003-09-04 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Mike, can you provide some information on this beast? What's its chosen processor? Also you'll need to run a "#lspci -v" for us (# mark for shell prompt). Oh, and as a side note, nice to see you here. --- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---