What you have described cannot be directly attributed to the 815
chipset. The 81x chispet family is known to cause problems in
configuring X Windows and audio - and that too was due to lack of proper
drivers. After Intel released the data sheets, etc. for the chipset,
drivers have been written and improved upon - though they still need
some fixes.
Internationally (at least in the US), motherboards based on Intel 810
chipsets (also SiS 630) with Integrated graphics and audio controllers
are considered to be the low end and cheaper solutions so normally
people don't prefer them while they are sucessful and very much in
demand in India and other countries for the same reason (low price).
The installation problems faced by you can be because of many other
reasons like 1024 cylinder barrier, bad hard disk, etc. What was the
linux partition size you initially worked on ?
I would like to hear from others on this topic.
- Manish
http://www.tuxspace.com/
Jiju Thomas Mathew wrote:
>
> > Yes. Also, the fixes / drivers for i810 motherboards should work for
> > i815.
> >
> > - Manish
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > in one of the PCQs). What about the i815 motherboards. Does it also
> >
> No I got stuck installing a cyber cafe server (taking down the
> Windows ME home network), while doing on an 815EEA board.
> The sound card was detected, but what happened was with
> the harddisk, suse 7, professional crashed while installing and
> when the third CD was through, slackware 7.1 went for about
> three hours and spat junk on the screen, RedHat 6.2 also showed
> hell lot of ascii characters and the sort on the screen.
>
> Later I did a repartititioning with allocating only 1gb for / and 256MB for
> swap, well RH installed completely this time, then i created one 3GB and
> mounted it at /home, went ahead and created a 2 g and mounted it at
> /home/squid, created a link from /var/squid to here, and provided
> the swap here.
>
> Now the server is working fine, but I shifted it off to a 440LX/ P3/500
> instead of the 815EEA/P3/866.
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