Arnold Troeger wrote: > > I have a mainboard with the much maligned VIA Apollo chipset on it. I'm > running the latest 8.2 kernel (2.4.18-8.1mdk). VIA has a patch for this > chipset (http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=88) but it's for the 2.4.18-6 > kernel. I will try the patch on the new kernel source anyway but I was > wondering if any of you had any thoughts or advice on this. >
"Much maligned"? I do not know who is maligning this chipset but I have an old Apollo PRO (VT82C691) chipset with the south bridge (IDE) 586, and it hums like a bird heading south for the winter. Albeit, it is on a machine with the 2.2.19 kernel (I'll never give up my 2.2.19 kernel on my gateway server). What kind of support are you looking for, i.e. display driver, IDE driver, sound driver, etc? Are you looking to support that *infamous* ProSavage DDR display? If you were to send us the output of a "lspci", and tell us a bit more of why you need the patch, maybe we could help. I would be very careful about using a patch version that was made for an older kernel version, especially since you have the newer kernel version running on your machine. drjung -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT Network/System Administration http://www.trismegistus.net/resume.html Character is built upon the debris of despair --Emerson
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