I believe that, if the issue of compatibility with linux of the diverse
hardware available on the market were more publicized, if a profile of
the people most prone to consider using linux were made, then the
linux-hardware compatibility issue would probably fall into receptive
ears and these people would realize just how good a deal they would get
if they bought a certain computer system.
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998 12:17:54 +1000 (EST) "Moore Brett"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>[was Install troubles & Cyrix..apols list, deleted orig]
>
> Having had my interest rekindled in this board, I again went looking
>for
>it. To the guy (??) who originally posted on this, email me direct and
>we
>may continue it off_list (because it will stretch off-topic).
>
> To save any immediate headaches though, it seems boards
>attached with the BIOS stringed 2A59Ht5BC-00 fit into the 'custom
>OEM
>application' area...somewhere between cheap manufacture & sub
>corporate
>distribution. Noted..lots of strings ending with -00 are so. If you
>manage
>to follow this string back to a website that visually identifies &
>matches
>your board, what you have in fact done is found one of these companies
>that were either successful or of long term projection into the
>motherboard game.
> The rest of us, to put it bluntly, are
>probably
>victims of the '$69 motherboard' syndrome where cheap mobo's were made
>(a
>lot in .tw) and sold in 'systems' comprising other specific components
>of
>OEM specs, sold by startups all over the world I suppose. We say a
>thing
>like 'supermarket_specials'..it's close. If these were meant to make a
>quick buck, failed in enterprise, or merely facilitated a means, will
>remain polemical, but we're stuck with them and trying to run linux.
>
> Like yourself, I too thought perhaps flashing the rom would perhaps
>be a
>solution to some quirkies. **BE WARNED** As far as I can surely
>surmize,
>any rom_flashing is chipset/board specific, right down to every IC in
>sight. Whilst you can save out the original bios to disk, if the bios
>you
>flash-in doesn't work, you're still going to need a booting system to
>reflash. Unless you were really confident you had the correct bios
>image
>to flash in, I suggest this trail is fraught with danger. (visions of
>a
>burner & spare rom spring to mind)
>
> I did discover something... assume the cyrix was fitted as standard
>to
>the motherboard. <grin> Try looking up your bios >date< against this
>list
>and see how you go. www.cyrix.com/support/mboard/allboards.htm
>
> If there's any redhat specific thing about all this, then I reckon
>any
>text carried (or printed) on this re: what hardware do I need to run
>redhat?, is either not verbose enough or taken with any understanding.
>There's an absolute minefield of 'good buys' out there (ie; systems
>comparitively spec'd against boards costing upto 60% more..quite a
>wallop
>for the buyer looking at $2000 or so). I think I see a trend towards
>ppl
>having bought a package deal of some kind (OS installed), who end up
>migrating to linux (either totally or partially)...or wanting
>too...only
>then finding out the true extent of the 'good deal' PC hardware
>purchase
>of many months back, because of install hassles or whatnot or merely
>the
>way linux attacks the hardware causing problems.
>
> I firmly believe this is where a lot of the 'linux sucks'
>sentiments
>get spawn from in relation to the way it handles hardware....from ppl
>who
>have such hardware described running win95 (or whatevr) perfectly, and
>expect this to be satisfactory as a prerequisite test for
>compatibility
>with linux.
>
> It is not.
>
>Cheers!
>
>Db
>
>
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