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[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 12:56 -0500, Ben Duncan wrote:
>  From what I have found, Nvidia and AMD seems to be
> getting a whole lot of support from the kernel level crowd
> these days ...
> 
> I have my laptop, marginally working. It has the ICH7,
> 82801G chipset stuff in it. The 3956ABG Wireless in it,
> is another matter (not working).

I have a supermicro MB with the ICH7, 82801G chipset as well. The main
problem I has with SUSE 10.1 was related to power. I had to add acpi=off
to the command line. Did you have the same issue? 

I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.17.7-smp so I could get the SATA hotplug
stuff to work. Now it works great.

I can't say anything about the wireless. My 2200BG worked out of the
box.

> 
> The latest Intel stuff (ICH8 and the VERY VERY new ICH9)
> stuff is still a mystery on drivers and getting them to
> work. Makes me wonder if Intel is releasing chipsets JUST
> to confuse and daze people...

Given intel's support for Linux, I am surprised that there is not better
kernel support for these chipsets.

> 
> Well, I guess I am off to test 2.6.18 RC7 on a production
> machine ...
> 
> 
> Bill Campbell wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 18, 2006, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> > 
> <SNIP>
>