I have used four Linux distributions in the past. SuSe, Red Hat, Mandrake and Debian (Woody). I have recently built a new machine and first attempted Red Hat 7.3 on the machine, because I have found that out of the box its ipchains rules form a good foundation to write additional rules on, and its support out of the box for CD-RW and sound have been nice. My choice of distro most often has to do with who will be using the system and for what purpose more than anything. I prefer Debian on my development/server machines, but Red Hat on machines built for other users for desktops. This was going to be a desktop used primarily by my wife.
However, Red Hat's update to the kernel for this chipset with an Athlon processor introduces a ton of errors with UDMA, and major data corruption, plus it is the first sound chip I have not had supported by Red Hat out of the box of the few I have tried. This machine is built on top of the remains of a machine that was 233 mhz Debian machine. The reason I switched back to Red Hat was the wrangling I had to go through to get sound supported for anybody besides root in the past. This leads to my questions: 1 - Does anybody know from definitive experience the status of support for the Via VT8233A southbridge in Debian kernels? 2 - Does anybody have a good walkthrough for getting sound working, well, with the on board sound? In this case the board is a MSI K7T266-Pro 2A board. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
