On Sunday 07 December 2003 12:41 pm, collins wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 07:31, Ernie Schroder wrote:
> > On Sunday 07 December 2003 01:38 am, Ian Truelsen wrote:
> > > On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 02:06:08 -0500
> > >
> > > Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > You're not using a KT133 based motherboard, are you? Using
> > > > any AGP at all, locked up my kt133 box every time I tried to
> > > > use a GLX app. Nforce2 based boards ROCK with Nvidia graphics
> > > > cards, but VIA board are problematic.
> > >
> > > I have a kt133 mobo with an nVidia card. Everything seems to be
> > > working fine, though I get occasional problems with X not being
> > > able to open the display to launch apps. This forces me to
> > > restart X, but nothing that locks up the computer proper.
> >
> > Great. I'm glad someone can get the boards to work. I had 3
> > slot1 (athlon/slot) boards here 2 of which were KT133 chipsets. I
> > has solid lockups on both of the VIA boards but the 3rd board ran
> > GLX fine. I believe that it was an AMD chipset. That board lost
> > the primary IDE or else I might still be using it. At one point I
> > was so ticked off at VIA that I was consideringchanging my
> > signature to the below:
>
> I've been curious about this problem for some time. Is the problem
> really the KT133 chipset, or just that NVIDIA and others are too
> lazy to produce code that will work with the KT133 chipset?
Good question.... I did a lot of searching for answers and never was
able to assign blame. All I know is that I was able to get AGP and
GLX to work on the AMD chipset board (if I only ran 2 drives hdc and
hdd).
My reason for going to the nforce2 board was the fact that my
research showed that Nvidia had done some extra work to insure
optimum performance with their chipset/video adapter combination. My
guess would be that nvidia saw little need to bend code for the KT133
chipset as it was mostly obsolete when they wrote Linux drivers for
their cards. This is probably not the best situation for Linux users
using older equipment, but the drivers are free (as in free beer).
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Regards, Ernie
100% Microsoft and Intel free
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