Re: [ILUG-BOM] Need help/advice for GNU/Linux supported Mother Boards/Chipsets

On Tuesday 30 Jan 2007 21:09:09 Dinesh Shah wrote:

3. MSI - K8MM-V

(http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UI D=647)

Chipset • VIA(r) K8M800 Chipset

• HyperTransport™ connection to AMD(r) Athlon™ 64 processor
• 8 or 16 bit control/address/data transfer both directions
• 800/600/400/200MHz "Double Data Rate" operation both direction
• AGP v3.0 compliant with 8x transfer mode
• Graphic integrated

• VIA(r) VT8237R Chipset

• Integrated Faster Ethernet LPC
• Integrated Hardware Sound Blaster/Direct Sound AC97 audio
• Ultra DMA 66/100/133 master mode PCI EIDE controller
• ACPI
• Supports 2 Serial ATA ports

I have this motherboard. The Unichrome chip was a problem wrt DRI. That was back in the days of Xorg 6.8 though. Xorg 7 came with the promise of new Unichrome drivers, but I had already put in an NVIDIA card, so I don't know how well the Xorg drivers work. If you're not interested in DRI, X works fine with the vesa drivers.

Everything else has been working perfectly.