From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6445 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2004 16:54:10 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 5 Dec 2004 16:54:10 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CazeE-0003oS-Ga for arch-gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 05 Dec 2004 16:54:10 +0000 Received: (qmail 32647 invoked by uid 89); 5 Dec 2004 16:53:27 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-user-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 19181 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2004 16:53:27 +0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=MKUpdTT5QrmSaNDVXSXwvCuof97Z/rA7L8uycLVYSOR4hqfJ91ZUrHb1tEoCTNDlf2BTofTkRw2h5nGIvxfqCV6Wb/gOTdhHWLn/IMx2XLr04rSEInbIQP6urf8zyF+pg8pfu0M3wBaUgYVxd+lLoi78cJ8u7oknd+slWOQ6Uak= Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0412050853349bde8a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 08:53:26 -0800 From: Mark Knecht Reply-To: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200412051749.38110.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Add in cards? X-Archives-Salt: a03a30b1-9154-4be6-bbdc-4c32e5559d8e X-Archives-Hash: c754d7cb186ea283b49a204a97496737 On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 17:49:38 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann 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... Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list