More than likely it has a VIA 686A chipset or the AMD 756 chipset - eithe r of which are supported by the UDMA patch that you can get from kernel.org. The BIOS is another matter - if it doesn't report things nicely - you may have to use hdparm to force the use of DMA. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > people on the list have said good things about Tyan mobos, and > I see that they have a K7 board now. > http://www.tyan.com/products/html/trinityk7.html > > how well-supported are the IDE controller and sound chipset under > Linux? I see that it comes with a 'driver disk'; which immediately > makes me suspicious (since they probably aren't anything but Windows > drivers...) > > I'm not necessarily going to run Linux on one of these things (I'm > actually looking for a win98 setup here at work); but I'd like to look > at the possibility down the road. > > Carl Soderstrom > _________________________________________ > Systems Administrator 307 Brighton Ave. > Minnesota DHIA Buffalo, MN > carls at agritech.com (763) 682-1091 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org