Re: [OT] Suitable Athlon Motherboard for Linux

Dmitry Pogosyan (pogosyan@cita.utoronto.ca)
Wed, 04 Jul 2001 15:53:26 -0400


Hans-Christian Armingeon wrote:

> 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.

What about Ali chipsets, like in ASUS A7A266 ?

>
> >
> > 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
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