Grok Mogger wrote:
Bruno Buys wrote:
Grok Mogger wrote:
Hey everyone,
I'm looking into building a new machine. As for the motherboard,
I'm interested in an ASUS 'A8V-VM SE'. Unfortunately, in Googling
I've seen people complain about problems with the board's
southbridge. It's a 'VIA VT8237A'.
I went to kernel.org and started looking through the change logs
wondering if perhaps I'd be able to find something about support
being added to the kernel for this chipset. Lo and behold, I did!
I searched this changelog...
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.19
And found the following two snippets that seem to indicate that
there is support in the kernel for this southbridge as of the 2.6.19
kernel.
Snippet 1:
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Author: Rudolf Marek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun Sep 3 22:35:21 2006 +0200
i2c-viapro: Add support for the VT8237A and VT8251
i2c-viapro: Add support for the VT8237A and VT8251
Documentation update included. Compile tested.
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Snippet 2:
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Author: Jay Cliburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon Aug 7 22:08:30 2006 -0500
[PATCH] sata_via: Add SATA support for vt8237a
This patch adds support for the VIA Technologies VT8237A SATA
controller,
used, for example, on the ASUS M2V socket AM2 motherboard.
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Unfortunately, Debian uses the 2.6.18 kernel. I'm somewhat lost
from here. Does anyone have any advice for me?
Even if I can add support for my Southbridge somehow, if the default
Debian kernels don't include support for my Southbridge, then I
won't be able to install Debian, right? Because the installer won't
be able to write to my SATA hard disk.
Anyway, I'm really clueless from here and would appreciate someone
pointing me in the right direction. =)
Thanks!
- GM
Hi Grok,
Unless the *A brand of the chipset is a lot different, you shall not
have any surprises. This is my lspci for it:
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge
[KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
The board is an Abit kv8-pro, for amd64, with amd64's etch, kernel
2.6.18-3-amd64 and a sata disk. Works nicely.
Hey Bruno,
Thanks for taking the time to read all that, I know it was a long
post. =)
Unfortunately, from my Googling, I'm under the impression that it IS a
very different chipset. I could be wrong, but unfortunately I don't
have any way to find out. (Maybe some nice person with a working
VT8237A Southbridge will find this and tell me it works? =P )
Thanks for letting know about your board, processor, and chipset
though, that's definitely helpful.
- GM
Trying a livecd is the way to go here. There's knoppix and kanotix which
are debian based, might give you a good idea.
Compiling the kernel isn't really scary, there are debian packages to
build kernels, did you see kernel-package, under 'apt-cache search'? But
you can also compile from kernel.org sources, if you wish.
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