From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-user-return-94884-arch-gentoo-user=gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org> Received: (qmail 31600 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2004 18:06:04 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 5 Dec 2004 18:06:04 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1Cb0ln-0007QA-RW for arch-gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 05 Dec 2004 18:06:03 +0000 Received: (qmail 5674 invoked by uid 89); 5 Dec 2004 18:05:47 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-user-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user-help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user-unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user-subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 1686 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2004 18:05:47 +0000 From: Dave Erickson <linuser@esox.us> Reply-To: linuser@esox.us To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0412050853349bde8a@mail.gmail.com> References: <200412042145.01033.mcbrides9@comcast.net> <200412051515.08201.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <5bdc1c8b04120508224eda5f73@mail.gmail.com> <200412051749.38110.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <5bdc1c8b0412050853349bde8a@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 12:05:41 -0600 Message-Id: <1102269941.8058.0.camel@zed-01.homenetwork> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Add in cards? X-Archives-Salt: 08934094-c0f8-4079-a684-40b0bb2aba96 X-Archives-Hash: 75f0437f186740da5069565be42fb209 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. -- Dave Erickson <linuser@esox.us> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list