>> I am seeing posts on A.O.L.M, bug reports (including mine - 115) and some >>posts on various other web forums related to the onboard network, sound and >>usb of many newer motherboards not working. I have asked people in these >>cases to try booting with noapic and/or acpi=off and in most cases it allowed >>those periphs to work. See bug 115 for a detailed report I filed on the >>issue on a Soyo KT400 board. When I could identify the hardware, it seems >>these reports came from VIA chipsets for both Athlon and Intel platforms, >>but I cannot confirm that universally. >I have a Duron/VIA chipset-based board and have had no problems... it >seems that the kernel crashes were due to a bad DIMM (which has dropped >me back to 128 MB... I don't even want to think about how painful GNOME >will be...). The onboard sound, however, apart from the annoying >buzzing that has a history of plaguing VIA sound chips, works perfectly. Sorry, should have specified the chipsets in question are newer, like the KT400 and P4X400. What is the Chipset on your mobo. I should have also said that I have a VIA Apollo Pro133 and a VIA KT133a that work perfectly. /g -- Levi Ramsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I've been gone for a while, made some changes in my style" GPG Fingerprint: 354C 7A02 77C5 9EE7 8538 4E8D DCD9 B4B0 DC35 67CD Currently playing: Misty Mountain Hop.ogg Linux 2.4.21pre4-1mdk 20:00:06 up 2:01, 5 users, load average: 0.73, 0.39, 0.24
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