Mandrake 9.1 and Via KT400 chipset?

[Sarissi]

Is anyone using Mandrake 9.1 with the Via KT400/8235 (not nforce) chipset??

 

If so, any issues with the southbridge?? (or northbridge for that matter)

 

The reason I ask, is that my new Chaintech motherboard uses this chipset.

 

If there are problems, does Mandrake 9.2 solve them?

 

Thank you in advance.

[davecs]

Sorry I have to buy a new mobo myself. Could you tell us what problems you are experiencing?

[Steve Scrimpshire]

With 9.1, you have to patch the kernel to get dma enabled because the southbridge is not recognized properly. The 2.4.22-10mdk kernel solves this issue. I'm running an Asus a7v600 with the KT600 chipset, but I assume it is going to be an issue with all vt82xx chipsets (mine is VT8237). I'm using 9.2 and everything works great on my board except for the onboard sound, but I use a PCI soundcard anyway.

[bvc]

I have an Abit KD7 w/ KT400 and with 9.1 I would install 'normal' (no kernel parameters) but have to boot with

noapic acpi=off

in grub and lilo. Other than that all was well, including UDMA5.

 

ML9.2....no probs at all. 8)

 

[root@localhost root]# cat /proc/pci

PCI devices found:

 Bus  0, device   0, function  0:

   Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400 AGP] Host Bridge (rev 0).

     Master Capable.  Latency=8.

     Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000 [0xe3ffffff].

 Bus  0, device   1, function  0:

   PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 PCI Bridge (rev 0).

     Master Capable.  No bursts.  Min Gnt=12.

 Bus  0, device  10, function  0:

   Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 2).

     IRQ 17.

     Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=12.Max Lat=128.

     I/O at 0xd000 [0xd03f].

 Bus  0, device  16, function  0:

   USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 128).

     IRQ 21.

     Master Capable.  Latency=32.

     I/O at 0xd400 [0xd41f].

 Bus  0, device  16, function  1:

   USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (#2) (rev 128).

     IRQ 21.

     Master Capable.  Latency=32.

     I/O at 0xd800 [0xd81f].

 Bus  0, device  16, function  2:

   USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (#3) (rev 128).

     IRQ 21.

     Master Capable.  Latency=32.

     I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc1f].

 Bus  0, device  17, function  0:

   ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge (rev 0).

 Bus  0, device  17, function  1:

   IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC BM IDE (rev 6).      IRQ 22.

     Master Capable.  Latency=32.

     I/O at 0xe000 [0xe00f].

 Bus  0, device  17, function  5:

   Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 80).

     IRQ 22.

     I/O at 0xe400 [0xe4ff].

 Bus  0, device  18, function  0:

   Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 116).

     IRQ 23.

     Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=8.

     I/O at 0xe800 [0xe8ff].

     Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe6001000 [0xe60010ff].

 Bus  1, device   0, function  0:

   VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 440] (rev 163).

     IRQ 16.

     Master Capable.  Latency=248.  Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1.

     Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe4000000 [0xe4ffffff].

     Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd0000000 [0xd7ffffff].

     Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd8000000 [0xd807ffff].

[root@localhost root]#

[Sarissi]

Currently, I am using an ASRock mobo with KT266 chipset. The new Chaintech needs cpu, ram and video card before I swap things out. I don't as a rule use onboard sound or LAN. Though with the Realtech LAN on the Chaintech, that might change.

 

My original post was nothing more than a request for information. :wink:

 

Since it is a non-issue with mandrake 9.2, that would make it worthwile for me to get the 9.2 powerpack (I have used nothing but the powerpack from mdk 7.2).

 

I am not going to port my Athlon XP 1700+, ATI XPert 2000 Pro AGP, nor sound card to the new system, and I can't use my PC133 on the new mobo (DDR only). Most of the current hardware is going into a secondary Win98SE system, mostly for gaming (on those rare occasions when I do game).

 

I got the Chaintech 7VJL Deluxe Apogee, new in box, on eBay: 6 pci and one 8x AGP. None of those funky CNR, or whatever slots.

 

Thanks guys!

[Sarissi]

That chaintech Deluxe mobo comes with its own linux distro! It also comes with 2 x ata100/133 2 drive cables, a single fdd cable, a CBOX (4 front USB 2.0, Mic, and headphone jacks, in a 3.5 bay box), and 2 cdroms of drivers and utilities. The onboard sound is CMedia, as I recall. Max ram is 4 GB, and Max cpu is Athlon XP 3000+ (333 Mhz FSB).