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Re: Does the VIA chipset work with Linux?




On Mon, 29 May 2000, Brian Stults wrote:

> 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
> > 
> 

These are tricky to configure (Way too many jumpers IMO) and I recall
seeing about an 80-90% failure rate when they came out a bit over a year
ago. No idea how they are now, since I don't touch them anymore.

> 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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> 
> Brian J. Stults
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> Department of Sociology
> University at Albany - SUNY
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