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Re: [TCLUG:19376] Tyan K7 boards?



It has a KX133 chipset, which has the Via 686a southbridge.  It works fine
on my FIC SD11 motherboard in Linux.  I'm not so sure about the onboard
sound, though.

Michael Vieths
Foeclan@Winternet.Com

On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:

> More than likely it has a VIA 686A chipset or the AMD 756 chipset - eithe
> r of which are supported by the UDMA patch that you can get from
> kernel.org.  The BIOS is another matter - if it doesn't report things
> nicely - you may have to use hdparm to force the use of DMA.
> 
> Tom Veldhouse
> veldy@veldy.net
> 
> On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> 
> > 	people on the list have said good things about Tyan mobos, and
> > I see that they have a K7 board now.
> > http://www.tyan.com/products/html/trinityk7.html
> > 
> > how well-supported are the IDE controller and sound chipset under
> > Linux? I see that it comes with a 'driver disk'; which immediately
> > makes me suspicious (since they probably aren't anything but Windows
> > drivers...)
> > 
> > I'm not necessarily going to run Linux on one of these things (I'm
> > actually looking for a win98 setup here at work); but I'd like to look
> > at the possibility down the road.
> > 
> > Carl Soderstrom
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