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Re: Any recommendation for Linux friendly AMD motherboard?



On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Alex Shnitman wrote:

> There's one caveat with Via Athlon chipsets: if you're going to use an
> es1371-based sound card with it (such as the Sound Blaster 128),
> you're going to have troubles. There's very little information
> available about this problem that I have found -- there's a mention in
> Alan Cox's diary entry for June 21st, and my own bitter experience.
> I've been able to work around it by rearranging the PCI cards
> (basically trying random arrangements until it stopped locking up).
> It's not *so* terrible, and I believe it's going to be fixed at some
> point. So I wouldn't dismiss this board just because of that.

I have a Gigabyte 7ZXR, and have no problem with the es1371 sound (other
than the fact that the kernel driver does not support the codec, so I
need to use the alsa driver).

> By the way, does anybody know whether it's normal that the chip's
> heatsink gets so hot that you can't keep your hand on it? It's an
> Athlon Thunderbird 850 MHz. The BIOS temperature meter says the CPU
> temperature is 58 degrees (Celsius).

My chip (t-bird 1000) is running at around 60 degrees when idle and the
room temprature is 32 degrees (when not idle it goes up to around
66). When the room temprature is 24, the chip is at 50 degrees. 



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Matan Ziv-Av.                         matan@svgalib.org



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