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

I have a Windows machine running on an ASUS mobo with that chipset. It works fine with Windows, although if you ever want to go to 4GB of memory, it won't work even with a 64-bit OS; the chipset consumes address space in the 3-4 GB range and doesn't support remapping.

Personally, I would recommend the nVidia nForce4 series chipsets. I just built a Fedora 5 system around an MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum, and the Fedora installer recognized ALL of the hardware with absolutely no problems at all. In all honesty, it was an easier install than Windows.

Of course, it doesn't have integrated video, but you can pick up an nVidia GeForce 6-series card these days for under $100, and the nVidia driver is available as a Fedora RPM from livna.org; that was a no-brainer too - I'm using an eVGA 6800XT.

Mark

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.

regards Henrik
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