Re: MSI RS482M4-ILD (Radeon Xpress 200 chipset)



Henrik Carlqvist wrote:
I'm thinking about building a small computer and the MSI RS482M4-ILD seems
nice on paper as it is m-ATX and has built in graphics with DVI out.
However, all computers that I have built before has had intel motherboard
chipsets so this Radeon motherboard chipset is unfamiliar to me. A few
questions:

Will IDE dma work with kernel 2.4.31? Does it work with a 2.6 kernel?

I don't have hands on experience with that board, but I do know that there were big driver updates in 2.6.11 for that chipset. Others report that DMA works with recent kernels. (There is at least some support for the chipset in the 2.4 series from 2.4.26 on, but I don't know how well it works.)

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Does the built in sound work fine with ALSA?

Apparently, yes.
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/index.php?vendor=vendor-ATI#matrix
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