On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: : Hi, : : >> Hi, : >> : >> I am looking at a new computer for my parrents to get me for college... I : >> looked at the hardware howto but somethings arn't listed.... so heres : >> what I am looking at getting. : >> : >> Tiger K6233 customize it yourself kit. : >> it contains: : : Sounds like a good choice. : : >> a ATX motherboard with the VIA 590vp2 chipset... can anyone tell me if : >> this will work with debian? ... it says it suports UDMA which AFAIK in not : >> suported by linux ... the motherboard uses a award bios... does anyone out : >> there have one of these mobo's... can I turn of UDMA? : : I don't know about the motherboard, but I know that some can cause problems, : but I have never had any. UDMA as far I as know can not be disabled. I have : friends that have had to disable the cache while installing but after that it : seems to work fine. dunno why this is though.
See http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Ultra-DMA (although sunsite seems to be down atm, at least for me. Thanks MCI) : >> a Generic S3 Virge video card ... will most of these work? : : Sounds fine, but it may be worth checking out just to make sure. I have a Virge/VX which works well. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
