I've had good success with VIA chipsets. I have a VIA K8T800 at work (an MSI mobo IIRC) and it works like a charm in 2.6 kernels including SATA, but the one gotcha at this point is the AGP bus isn't recognized. I'm presuming this will be fixed in a couple of months and since I don't do much gaming at work it hasn't really bothered me.
I have a much more modest Shuttle board at home with a VIA chipset that has absolutely no trouble in 2.4 or 2.6. As always, bleeding edge means the possibility for incompatibility. The one at home looks like this: 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333] /* Quoth Bryan Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 6 May 2004 at 22:13 -0700 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> */ > Hey folks, > > There's gotta be someone on this list who is the type of geek that is > always up-to-date on the latest north bridges, south bridges, BIOSes, > motherboards, RAM, etc. I'm looking at getting a new barebones system > and I'm wondering what the latest scoop on all the above is. Last time > I got up to speed on this ASUS, and ABIT were the must-have motherboard > brands, with some chipset that I can't remember, and you totally had to > avoid some other new intel chipset, and the DDR vs. Rambus debate was > just flaring up. What's the scoop today? In particular, I'm seeing > some bargain boards with some VIA chipsets and some Asus motherboad with > the SiS 648 on the north bridge and SiS 963L on the South Bridge. Oh, > and what's up with these half-megawatt power supplies? Do I need to > update my circuit breakers before I bring one of these monsters home? > > Thanks, > > Bryan > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > -- .O. Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. ..O http://hans.fugal.net | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg OOO | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460
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