Re: VIA KT400 & VT8235 support

From: sean darcy (seandarcy@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Oct 12 2002 - 21:11:05 EST


>From: Mark Hahn <hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca>
>To: sean darcy <seandarcy@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: VIA KT400 & VT8235 support
>Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 17:34:42 -0400 (EDT)
>
> > Before spending money on a new VIA motherboard with the KT400 and VT8235
> > south bridge, I'd like to know if they're supported in 2.4 and 2.5. Are
> > they?
> >
> > Is there anyplace that lists supported chipsets, at least for 2,4?
>
>chipset vendors are astonishingly uninventive. that one, for instance,
>is basically the same as the kt133. to "support" one of these new spins,
>generally all that's required is adding its PCI ids to a few tables
>(for the ide controller, etc.)

Actually, I tried one tonight. It turns out that agpgart is not supported by
2.4 or 2.5.

Do you mean I can just stick a PCI id (where do I find it?) in some table
(filename?)? How?

thanks

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