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Re: Help: motherboard works with Linux?



On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 12:07:39AM +1100, James Buchanan wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am thinking of buying this motherboard: Gigabyte GA-8IEXP with the Intel
> 845E AGPset chipset - what worries me is its "winbond" I/O chip.  Is that
> like a "winmodem" ie. only works with Windows?

No. Winbond is just the name of the chip manufacturer. They probably
chose that name to make it look like their chips are something to do
with Windoze, but they're not Windoze-only in any way. Nothing like a
losemodem. Linux should be just fine.

Pigeon



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