Lucky for me the after further investigation the EPIA M2 seems to meet my requirements perfectly. I was wondering though, the AMI BIOS that comes on the board is used to switch between the video output modes and many other hardware features. Are these settings now configured through Linux then since LinuxBIOS does minimal hardware configuration? Or are they still setup in the BIOS (LinuxBIOS), or are they not supported currently?
Thanks, Michael Robinson mrobinson@fuzzymuzzle.com www.fuzzymuzzle.com
Hendricks David W. wrote:
Right now I'd have to say the best supported mainboards currently are VIA EPIA M2 and Opteron mainboards using the AMD8111 southbridge. Asus does weird things with their SMbus and hasn't been very cooperative in the past with documentation, so I would not recommend that you risk money on them.
Though if you have a high threshold for pain, you can try one of the newer VIA chipsets like the KT400 and hope they're generous enough with documentation to complete a port. Some other VIA stuff is supported, so that might help with a new port.
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Michael Robinson wrote:
Ron,
I'm not sure what mobo I'm going to use yet, before I buy one I want to make sure it's at least reasonably possible to get LinuxBIOS running on it. I've heard that the Asus SiS mobos won't work because of the flash chip. Is this just because of the pinout or is it because of actual software compatibility. I can always solder my own socket onto the board if necessary. I've been looking at the Asus boards and most of the compatible boards on your site seem to use the SiS chipset that many of the Asus's do. Can you give me any insight on the chip compatibility problem? Most of the SiS chips in the Asus boards seem very close in model number to the ones you guys have got working.
Thanks, Michael Robinson mrobinson@fuzzymuzzle.com www.fuzzymuzzle.com
ron minnich wrote:
it depends on the chipset type. Can you give us some lspci output and we can see what is possible?
ron
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