Re: do amd processors work well with debian?
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 17:03, George Georgalis wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:59:00AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
>
> >> by the way, any baddies when it comes to mobo chipset?
> >
> >Nforce chipsets. AFAIK you need a non-free driver to make the LAN chip
> >work.
>
> 'in the beginning' there was problems with the VIA IDE controller
> drivers (ie, my chipset, a year or two ago) used on some boards
> for amd CPUs. I'm now running a 2.4.20 kernel with compile option
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y and while I have no problems with disk
> access, I'm not convinced all problems were addressed for the floppy
> drive. I cannot always run fdformat /dev/fd0 (and I don't have removed
> media mounted) but rebooting fixes it.
>
> I'm not sure exactly which components are relevant but am guessing
> 'Apollo Super South'
>
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 03)
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP]
> 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40)
> 00:07.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)
I've got the same chipset you do (on an A7V133-C mobo) and have
had none of those IDE problem, even back when others were
complaining about them. Haven't formatted too many floppys,
so can't speak to that...
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