Subj : Via drivers
To   : IBANEZ
From : OMAR HASHIM
Date : Sat Jul 23 2005 12:08 pm

-> I've got a Gentoo Linux system running on a VIA chipset equipped motherboard 
-> and it runs flawlessly. Even the firewire works good. Which, by the way, is 
-> built into the motherboard as well. 
 
-> Gigabyte GA-7VAXP motherboard: 
-> VIA KT400 Northbridge 
-> 8235 VIA Southbridge 
-> VT6306 IEEE 1394 controller 
-> PDC20276 ATA133 Promise RAID controller 
-> Realtek onboard Audio 
-> Realtek onboard 10/100 Ethernet 
 
-> All of the above work great for me under linux, and of course windows (this 
-> system is dual boot with WinXP). 
 
-> I put 1GB of DDR400 memory in it and a Geforce 6600GT 128MB AGP 8x card in i 
-> when Doom 3 came out. With the Athlon 3000+ cpu I have in the board it gets 
-> acceptible performance. 
 
-> Oh and the really fun part is when I installed Unreal Tournament 2004 in my 
-> Gentoo partition and got it running under linux with the nvidia drivers ;) 
-> Gaming in linux = woohoo! 
 
-> - Ibanez 
That is quite a setup running on linux. 
Good to hear that it worked for you.  From what I hear though gentoo 
 is tougher to install than other distros, I have only worked with 
redhat, suse, and slack so I would have to check the gentoo docs 
closely. Thanks for the info. 
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