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Re: Any recommendation for Linux friendly AMD motherboard?



Hi, Yosi!

On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 06:27:53AM -0000, you wrote the following:

> I am considering upgrading my current machine to an Athlon ThunderBird
> and would be interested in your recommendations on what motherboards
> are known to be supported for Linux and what boards should I stay
> away from. Especially, what do you think about Asus A7V and
> ABit KT 7A?
> Personal experience with any of these boards will be more than helpful

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.

Apart from that, the board has been working flawlessly for me and I'm
very happy with it.

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).


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