On Thursday 27 September 2001 01:28, you wrote: > Hi > Does anyone know of any problems running Mandrake 8.0/8.1 on the > following hardware: > > AMD Duron 800 > Soltek SL-75MAV series mainboard with: > North Bridge VIA VT8365A (KM133A) > South Bridge VIA VT82C686B > Integrated Savage4 2D/3D Video Accelerater > AC97 Digital Audio onboard > > A friend of mine who wants to try Linux has this setup but when he tried > to install RedHat 7.1 it choked on it for some reason. He wants to try > Mandrake, probably 8.1 when it comes. > > I keep hearing bad things about VIA chipsets and onboard graphics, but I > can't figure out what's what with Linux and hardware. > > Thanks I'm using with Mandrake 8.0 (2.4.3-20mdk): AMD Athlon 1GHz Soltek SL-75KAV mobo North Bridge VIA VT8363A (KT-133A) South Bridge VIA VT82C686B crappy old S3 2MB video card AC97 Digital Audio onboard 60GB IBM DTLA-307060 ATA-100 hard drive Only problem is that my chipset has my hard drive running on udma2 (33MHz) instead of the udma5, so is supposedly reading slower than it should. However, I think this has been worked around in a later kernel - I just haven't gotten around to compiling a newer kernel. This may not apply in your friend's case anyway with the KM133A. No problem with the sound. Cheers skinky _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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