Re: do amd processors work well with debian?
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)
// George
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