The Sis 735 used on the ECS K7S5a motherboard works great with Linux. I have built ten machines with this board and all are running fine. The one I built for myself run Mandrake 8.1 with no problems. There is no Sis video on these boards so you should be safe. I also built one machine using a board with a Via chipset from ECS its also running smooth.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Declan Moriarty Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 11:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ECS Motherboards (again) On Friday 07 December 2001 18:10, you wrote: > > Thank you all for your replies. But can I ask again, are there any > > issues > > using > > > this (and the sis chipset) with Linux? > > I have a severe and potentially unwarranted distaste for SiS anything. The > chipsets they develop are the cheepest and nastiest things I've > encountered. I am told some are good, and some are bad. PCChips owned that company for some time, and their products were as bad as they are painted here. Some of the more modern stuff is better, I am told. I am stuck with the crap, unfortunately. Avoid the 6326 video chip at all costs - ditto the 5513/5591 combination. Some of the later ones (630 and 730) I have heard praised by some who should know. What chips are you contemplating?? -- Regards, Declan Moriarty Applied Researches - Ireland's Foremost Electronic Hardware Genius A Slightly Serious(TM) Company Success covers a multitude of blunders - G.B. Shaw. > > *In general* if you dont or can't obtain a specially developed sis driver > for whatever-it-is, then it is totally and completely incompatible with any > of the industry standards for that product making it unusuable with > 'standard' drivers. > > One of the classic examples from this company from hell is their laughable > 'vga''chipsets. It would be accepted by most that the 1st 16 'modes' of vga > are 'industry standard'. Meaning that they are the modes as defined by IBM > on the original product and garanteed to work on *any* pc. Until that is, > this awful SiScrap hit the deck where they decided to save 2 cents and > simply not have them. Makes booting with a Sis vga card an excercise in > futility. > > Other undocumented features from this shitset are stealing real memory from > the top of your real memory because again, they don't like the thought of > paying 0.0002 cents for the drill holes in their pcb's to accomodate on > board memory. Thus, although SiSshit claims to be 5ns compatible: try it > some time. > > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
