On Wednesday 15 Oct 2003 21:21, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Hi Mark, > > I have a Gigabyte GA-7VT600 1394 board that also has the VIA KT600 > > chipset. I'm not using the builtin VT8237 but the patch Mathieu > > posted is identical to the driver included in at least the last > > three versions of gs-sources, so there's no need to patch > > gs-sources. > > > > Peter > > Peter, > "I'm not using the builtin VT8237..." > > I wanted make sure I understand this comment. You are not using > which part of the VT8237? It's a huge chip with a lot of functions - > Serial ATA, RAID Controller, Parallel ATA, portions of Via sound > support, USB, keyboard and mouse controllers. > > I am *thinking* you mean that you are not using SATA, or RAID, or > neither, but I'm not clear. You MUST be using the keyboard and mouse > controllers at least, right? > > I guess maybe you are using just a standard ATA drive and CDROM on > the parallel ATA interface?
I have three ATA133 drives and one DVD writer. The DVD writer is on the second IDE channel and the 3 hard disks are on a Promise ATA133 card - which I've always trusted more than VIA. I'm not using SATA drives - that's what I meant to say. I have a Soundblaster Live card, so the Realtek audio is disabled in the bios. Onboard LAN (Realtek) and USB (2.0 and USB-alt) work fine. > > This could be a fall-back position if I do have trouble with SATA > for some reason. (I think I won't, but...) > > I completely get that I do not need to patch gs-sources to use the > VT8237. I just want to be 100% completely clear what you are doing. > > Thanks, > Mark > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- ====================================================================== Portage 2.0.49-r13 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.23_pre7-gss) i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+ ====================================================================== -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
