"J. Craig Woods" wrote: > > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
This is for improved IDE support. ATM I'm getting about 5 MBytes per second to my Seagate ATA66 drives, and UDMA support cannot be activated by hdparm. This patch is supposed to fix this. Civileme has written quite a bit about VIAs chipsets and in that sense I regard them as "much maligned" (mind you I'm not saying they don't deserve maligning). Best regards, Arnold -- Arnold Troeger Unocal Thailand Phone: 011-66-2-545-5456 5th Floor, Tower 3, SCB Park Plaza FAX: 011-66-2-545-5374 19 Ratchadapisek Road, Chatuchak Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bangkok 10900, Thailand ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Microsoft Windows: for when your machine is just too fast" "Microsoft: Writing viruses has never been easier!" "Microsoft: The company that made email dangerous"
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