Re: Hardware question.

[<finn@midco.net>]

On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote:

: Hi,
: 
: >> Hi,
: >>
: >> I am looking at a new computer for my parrents to get me for college... I
: >> looked at the hardware howto but somethings arn't listed.... so heres
: >> what I am looking at getting.
: >>
: >> Tiger K6233 customize it yourself kit.
: >> it contains:
: 
: Sounds like a good choice.
: 
: >> a ATX motherboard with the VIA 590vp2 chipset... can anyone tell me if
: >> this will work with debian? ... it says it suports UDMA which AFAIK in not
: >> suported by linux ... the motherboard uses a award bios... does anyone out
: >> there have one of these mobo's... can I turn of UDMA?
: 
: I don't know about the motherboard, but I know that some can cause problems,
: but I have never had any.  UDMA as far I as know can not be disabled.  I have
: friends that have had to disable the cache while installing but after that it
: seems to work fine. dunno why this is though.

See http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Ultra-DMA
(although sunsite seems to be down atm, at least for me.  Thanks MCI)

: >> a Generic S3 Virge video card ... will most of these work?
: 
: Sounds fine, but it may be worth checking out just to make sure.

I have a Virge/VX which works well.

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