From: Hans-Christian Armingeon <linux.johnny@gmx.net>
To: joe.mathewson@btinternet.com,
Joseph Mathewson <joe@mathewson.co.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OT] Suitable Athlon Motherboard for Linux
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 21:35:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01070421350101.00849@gundi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200107041849.f64InoE12398@ambassador.mathewson.int>
In-Reply-To: <200107041849.f64InoE12398@ambassador.mathewson.int>
On Wednesday, 4. July 2001 20:49, Joseph Mathewson wrote:
> Having heard the various horror stories about the VIA PCI data corruption
> bugs, and watching one Via based machine destroy itself with a Mandrake 8.0
> 2.4.3, I was just wondering if anyone had a suggestion for an Athlon
> motherboard that works reliably under Linux (I don't think all the issues
> have been cleared up in the kernel yet?). There must be quite a few Linux
> Athlon users out there - what boards are you using and with what success?
>
> I can't see much alternative to Via chipsets in the Ahtlon market, other
> than all-in-one-graphics-sound-network jobbies that, from previous
> experience (namely the i810), are also best avoided.
>
> Joe.
>
I think the SIS chipset based mainboards will be at a very good performance,
even faster than VIA. I read it in the german c't magazine.
Johnny
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-04 19:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-04 18:49 [OT] Suitable Athlon Motherboard for Linux Joseph Mathewson
2001-07-04 19:05 ` Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2001-07-04 19:35 ` Hans-Christian Armingeon [this message]
2001-07-04 19:53 ` Dmitry Pogosyan
2001-07-05 19:24 ` [OT] Quad-cpu motherboard recommendation ognen
2001-07-05 19:34 ` Dan Hollis
2001-07-05 19:35 ` Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2001-07-05 19:38 ` William Park
2001-07-05 19:40 ` Joel Jaeggli
2001-07-05 0:55 ` [OT] Suitable Athlon Motherboard for Linux Stephen Wille Padnos
2001-07-05 7:02 ` Catalin BOIE
2001-07-05 9:41 ` Kain
2001-07-05 11:02 ` Scott Nursten
2001-07-06 9:58 ` Victor Julien
2001-07-07 3:52 ` Stephen M. Williams
2001-07-07 4:35 ` Jim Roland
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