Re: [gentoo-user] Add in cards?

[Dave Erickson <linuser@esox.us>]

On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 08:53 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 17:49:38 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann
> <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> wrote:
> > 
> > no, there is a problem with VIA and PCI in general, not promise related.
> > 
> > If you want to use your pci-bus for more than moving data to the soundcard,
> > via has a long history of pci-quirks that makes it a dubious choice for a
> > stable environment. That is all. I do not trust via boards.
> 
> Interesting. I have no such experience. I use multiple Via boards
> today and have no trouble with the ones I own. Certainly the problem
> could be out there but I haven't experienced it.
> 
> Sometimes these reputations are very old and hard to live down. Intel
> also made chipsets that clearly didn't do PCI correctly at one time.
> They got past it. My thought is that Via's reputation may be worse
> than today's reality...


I had an older BX board with a Via chipset. Then I saw an article
somewhere (/. or maybe tomshardware?) that said Via chipsets had
problems with the PCI bus.

I checked and it was true. But I hadn't noticed it until then so take
that for what it's worth.


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Dave Erickson <linuser@esox.us>


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