Subj : Via drivers
To   : OMAR HASHIM
From : Angus McLeod
Date : Wed Jul 20 2005 09:53 am

  Re: Via drivers
  By: OMAR HASHIM to ANGUS MCLEOD on Tue Jul 19 2005 12:57:00

 > ->  > What Distributions support the via chipset properly?
 > 
 > -> What type of support do you mean?

 > I mean what distros have the via drivers in them or support in the
 > kernel.

Providing the kernel versions are the same, all distros contain the same 
kernel.  I've used Slackware for years with VIA chipsets, and found all 
the support *I* needed (Basically, the VIA audio)

	/sbin/modprobe via82cxxx_audio

There is a driver for the VIA Rhine 

	#/sbin/modprobe via-rhine

but as you can see, I don't use it as I have different network hardware.

Any distro with an up-to-date kernel should come with this stuff.

You can also get system hardware monitoring up usiong a variety of VIA 
hardware, by installing the LM_Sensors package, and one of the apropriate 
i2c drivers but these are not a part of the kernel.



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