On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 07:32:27PM -0400, Vikki Roemer wrote: > Jeff Whitman wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >I'm looking for information on P4 motherboards and chipsets for Woody? > > > >Please share any success or failure information. > > > >Thanks, > > > >Jeff > > > > > > > > > Well, I don't know about motherboards, but as for chipsets-- avoid any > and all SiS chips. I have the SiS 730s chipset in my computer, and the > graphics chips sort of work (the driver is somewhat mismatched-- I have > to deal with perpetual, severe pincushion distortion), but the sound > doesn't work *at all* and Linux can't find my fan & temperature sensors > (they work-- I've checked the BIOS numerous times to make sure). Take > it from me, SiS chips are just worthless; avoid them like the plague :(
I'm running sarge (kernel 2.4.19-686) on an ASUS TUSI-M motherboard with a SiS 630ET chip (this is for a P3, not P4) and had problems with xserver-xfree86 (the Xfree website admits the driver has problems) but it works fine with xserver-svga (X ver. 3.3.6). The display is much sharper than with my old Nvidia TNT Riva card on my previous motherboard. I haven't tried setting up Linux to use the sensors yet. The sound (cmpci) and ethernet (sis900) work fine as well. I haven't seen any explanation of why the XFree 3.x driver couldn't be ported to 4.x. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
