On Wed, 10 May 2000, you wrote:
> OK
>
> i810 runs with a blasted Seagate Barracuda (and certified memory)
Y'all are aware that nothing Intel put out after the BX
chipset, works properly, right? i8<whatever> boards are suspect
at best, and just recently Intel had to bite the bullet and recall
_ALL_ (like almost a million) i820 based systems at their expense.
They'll either replace your mobo (good luck, you'll prob'ly wind
up with a Dell special), or trade your ram out for ramBus (best
wishes again that it'll work any better).
Now that was all fact, MNSHO is that ata/66 (added on or built
in) and/or defective mobo's (i8<whatever> and the not ready for
prime time VIA's) are the root of many instabilities, conflicts,
blame the ram or HDD's, .............
I'd hate to be in Mandrakes shoes tryin to keep i8xx and VIA
(yeah, that includes the Athlon crowd) owners happy. 'Specially
what with Intel and AMD doin their best to make 'em nervous ;->
This mesg brought to you by a old 5400rpm WD slave runin on a
severely oc'd BX Soyo ata/33 mobo, HDD's by WD and IBM ;-)
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.. Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> FIC PAG 2130 runs well except for sound--neither sndconfig nor harddrake
> nor OSS seem to be able to help this supposedly "SB compatible" trash
> on-southbridge kludge. Will send output of lspcidrake As soon as I can
> get back to that target machine.
>
> No software is going to keep WD drives honest about CRCs nor will it
> keep them from physically breaking (sound like a marble on a table top
> when it happens).
>
> Well the area I have remaining is that it seems one MUST DL the security
> software for lib.crypto and lib.ssl or the KDE2 betas will not run, not
> even under kde1. I would say that is OK for BETA-testing but not for
> offering the binaries.
>
> And with a Cyrix MediaGX I have two problems--1. Harddrake ASSUMES a
> southbridge sound blaster, but the MediaGX does not need the 5510
> companion chipset to run--it can use alien video and audio. 2. I have
> to rpm -ivh --ignorearch <packagename> all the time to install mandrake
> software. Here is lspcidrake for the test MegiaGX:Cyrix
>
>
> Cyrix Corporation| PCI Master [MediaGX] (unknown Server: SVGA)
> S3 Inc. |ViRGE/DX or /GX (DISPLAY_VGA Card:S3 ViRGE (gegeric))
> Realtek|8029 (NETWORK_ETHERNET ne2k-pci)
> Cyrix Corporation|5510 [Grappa] (unknown unknown)
>
> In fact, I have an Avance ALS-100 with the OPL-3SAx chip and
> PCI interface in that machine.
>
> Civileme
>
> Willo send lspcidrake of the FIC PAG 2130 within two hours.
>
>
>
> --
> BETA-testing Netscape 6
> and its mailer
