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

On Thu, 25 May 2006 14:08:19 +0200, 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?

Is DRI supported by the opensource drivers in X.org? According to
http://ftp.x.org/pub/X11R7.0/doc/html/radeon.4.html it seems to work, but
I have seen other pages saying that it is untested. Will the DVI port work
with the opensource drivers? At least with earlier versions of X.org I
have had problems to get the DVI port to work with Radeon 9250 cards.

Does the built in sound work fine with ALSA?

I suppose that the built in USB and firewire ports work?

I have not found much about this board on google. That could mean that
there are no problems or that the board and chipset is not very common.

ATI is not perceived as a viable Linux platform, so it is no surprise that
this chipset is rarely used. I recommend a similar NVidia-based board
from MSI (K8NGM2-FID, GeForce 6150 chipset) which is guaranteed to work
with any modern distribution.

--
Vladimir

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