Re: FC2 versus FC3 -- my own experiences

From: Cal Vanize (forgetthespam_at_finallyfree.com)
Date: 04/21/05 

Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:38:04 -0500

Randy McLaughlin wrote:

> "Cal Vanize" <forgetthespam@finallyfree.com> wrote in message
> news:ZBD9e.13249$Jg7.12340@fe03.lga...
>
>>JDS wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:16:41 -0400, General Schvantzkoph wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>What kind of hardware do you have? It sounds like you've got some unusual
>>>>device or chipset that uses a driver that somehow got broken in a recent
>>>>kernel.
>>>
>>>Athlon 2200+, 512 MB RAM, 60GB IDE disk drive
>>>
>>>This machine was built by pogolinux in 2002 and originally came with
>>>RHL7.3 installed.
>>>
>>>It is not weird hardware, though, I don't think.
>>>
>>>Here is lspci output for more info on some devices:
>>>[jeff@newt jeff]$ /sbin/lspci
>>>00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo
>>>KT266/A/333]
>>>00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333
>>>AGP]
>>>00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev
>>>10)
>>>00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100]
>>>(rev 0c)
>>>00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233A ISA Bridge
>>>00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
>>>VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
>>>00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
>>>Controller (rev 23)
>>>00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
>>>Controller (rev 23)
>>>01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX
>>>440 AGP 8x] (rev a4)
>>>
>>>later, all...
>>>
>>
>>I have had FC3 running on VIA (not KT266) and nVidia chipsets using GF2
>>and FX5200 nVidia video cards without issues. T-bird and Firefox run
>>fine. In fact, I tried several other distros and kept coming back to FC3
>>for performance and stability.
>
>
> Generic descriptions of chips are important but what board brand names?
> There are a lot of cheap MB's out there, not to mention RAM, VGA cards, etc.
>
>
> Randy
>
>

For my part (favorable report), I was running ASUS A7V880 and A7N8X boards.

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  • Re: FC2 versus FC3 -- my own experiences
    ... Randy McLaughlin wrote: ... I tried several other distros and kept coming back to FC3 ... >>for performance and stability. ... > Generic descriptions of chips are important but what board brand names? ...
    (alt.os.linux.redhat)
  • Re: FC2 versus FC3 -- my own experiences
    ... Randy McLaughlin wrote: ... I tried several other distros and kept coming back to FC3 ... >>for performance and stability. ... > Generic descriptions of chips are important but what board brand names? ...
    (alt.linux)