Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Christopher Thomas wrote:
>
> > Interesting project! Why "no asus"? It is because their
> > support/release of info is terrible? (I've tried to get technical
> > details repeatedly and they generally don't have a clue what I'm
> > asking about - like "What is a PLL?"), or is there something specific
> > related to their motherboards?
>
>
> Their motherboards, so far, have all been busted in one way or another,
> for different chipsets. Stuff like SMB doesn't work, or IDE2 has problems,
> or they put a weird asic on it that nobody understands, or ...
Well on the weird asic case. We have recently made a little progress.
It is manufactured by winbond. And lm_sensors supports it. So there
is some hope there. And lm_sensors supports it as a compatible with
another chip which winbond does have the data sheets for.
This is all research so far but with luck something may come of it :)
> it's easier just to avoid asus than to figure out why their stuff is so
> broken.
I'll go with weird instead of broken. Though I haven't messed with
any of their SiS chipset boards which may be broken. ASUS has a
pretty good reputation that I haven't yet seen a reason to doubt yet.
And I do know I guys in manufacturing prefer ASUS boards.
Eric
