Re: Does the VIA chipset work with Linux?

[Brian Stults <bs7452@csc.albany.edu>]

Paul McHale wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am interested in replacing my motherboard, but the current replacement
> available is based on the VIA chipset.  Does anyone have any experience with
> this chipset?
> 
> paul
> 

VIA makes a lot of different chipsets.  Personally, I have been having
very good results with FIC VA-503+ motherboards which use the the VIA
MVP3 chipset.  I've used kernels from 2.0.36 to 2.2.15, all with no
problems.

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