> Re your remark about Asus chips in your first message - when I > bought the board I basically had no criterion to choose between Asus > and Abit, which were the two which seemed most attractive. If I had > realised how troublesome using the as99127f was going to be I would > have gone the other way! You only find these things out when you > actually buy a piece of kit - at that time the board was too new for > there to be anything relevant on the sensors support page. I myself have such a chip on one of my boards (an A7V133-C). I didn't know about Asus not releasing data sheets at the time I bought it (I wasn't very active on the LM Sensors project back then). That said, I have to admit that the problem you encountered wasn't really related to this lack of data sheet. Still I won't buy anything from Asus for sure until they change their policy, and I usually recommend people wanting their hardware fully supported under Linux to do the same. > Next time I buy I may go to a Xeon cpu (for the sake of the large > memory support on Xeon motherboards) or if the IA64/AMD 64 bit > processors look attractive in both specification and price I may > go that way Specification, price *and support*. This is now how I choose my hardware. I select products being supported under Linux (or those support could be easily added because they are similar to another supported piece of hardware and/or data sheets are available) and within my range of price. Then, and only then, I start wondering which one product in the list will perform the best for the use I have. And thanks for your nice comments :) -- Jean Delvare http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/
