2002-10-12 20:34:32

by sean

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Subject: VIA KT400 & VT8235 support


Before spending money on a new VIA motherboard with the KT400 and VT8235
south bridge, I'd like to know if they're supported in 2.4 and 2.5. Are
they?

Is there anyplace that lists supported chipsets, at least for 2,4?

thanks


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2002-10-13 02:05:22

by sean

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Subject: Re: VIA KT400 & VT8235 support




>From: Mark Hahn <[email protected]>
>To: sean darcy <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: VIA KT400 & VT8235 support
>Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 17:34:42 -0400 (EDT)
>
> > Before spending money on a new VIA motherboard with the KT400 and VT8235
> > south bridge, I'd like to know if they're supported in 2.4 and 2.5. Are
> > they?
> >
> > Is there anyplace that lists supported chipsets, at least for 2,4?
>
>chipset vendors are astonishingly uninventive. that one, for instance,
>is basically the same as the kt133. to "support" one of these new spins,
>generally all that's required is adding its PCI ids to a few tables
>(for the ide controller, etc.)


Actually, I tried one tonight. It turns out that agpgart is not supported by
2.4 or 2.5.

Do you mean I can just stick a PCI id (where do I find it?) in some table
(filename?)? How?

thanks

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2002-10-13 06:11:32

by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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Subject: Re: VIA KT400 & VT8235 support

Em Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 10:11:05PM -0400, sean darcy escreveu:
> Do you mean I can just stick a PCI id (where do I find it?) in some table
> (filename?)? How?

lspci
lspci -n

- Arnaldo

2002-10-13 12:48:54

by Vojtech Pavlik

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Subject: Re: VIA KT400 & VT8235 support

On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 04:40:15PM -0400, sean darcy wrote:

> Before spending money on a new VIA motherboard with the KT400 and VT8235
> south bridge, I'd like to know if they're supported in 2.4 and 2.5. Are
> they?

2.5 supports it, 2.4 needs a patch.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs

2002-10-13 19:56:46

by sean

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Subject: Re: VIA KT400 & VT8235 support

OK. From lspic:

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3189
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device b168

from lspci -n:

00:00.0 Class 0600: 1106:3189
00:01.0 Class 0604: 1106:b168

So I take 1106:3189 and 1106:b168 and stick them where?

jay

>From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
.............
>Em Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 10:11:05PM -0400, sean darcy escreveu:
> > Do you mean I can just stick a PCI id (where do I find it?) in some
>table
> > (filename?)? How?
>
>lspci
>lspci -n
>
>- Arnaldo




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2002-10-13 20:27:49

by sean

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Subject: Re: VIA KT400 & VT8235 support




>From: Vojtech Pavlik <[email protected]>
.............
>
>On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 04:40:15PM -0400, sean darcy wrote:
>
> > Before spending money on a new VIA motherboard with the KT400 and VT8235
> > south bridge, I'd like to know if they're supported in 2.4 and 2.5. Are
> > they?
>
>2.5 supports it, 2.4 needs a patch.
>
>--
>Vojtech Pavlik
>SuSE Labs


Well, sort of. I actually found someone who had one. Booted up 2.5.42.
Everything seems to work except agpgart:

agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: Unsupported Via chipset (device id: 3189), you might want to try
agp_try_unsupported=1.
agpgart: no supported devices found.

Is there a patch for 2.4? In one of the pre's?

thanks
jay



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