Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 7
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.11.6
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Distribution:
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Gentoo
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Now I am giving it a 7 because I really don't have any idea about how much should I give it.<br>
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Then why 7? Its simple. It comes with VIA chipset - meaning a poor compatibility!<br>
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Sound - Sound is good. I had no problem with it whatsoever. It is fully supported through alsa. Though I used Gentoo, where there is no such thing as "auto-detect", I am very sure every distro will recognize it. (Audiophiles may not like it, but to me it was all I wanted.)<br>
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Video - Now this is the tragic part. You have got KM400 in your hand. Via drivers are NOT available for modern distros! When they are, they don't support 3D rendering! The default driver that comes with Xorg sucks! (There were times when my X server crashed and a lot of trash happened.)<br>But all is not lost (yet), since VIA driver's source is open. As I said, its performance tells us that it is not worth a try. (Even VESA is better.) But there are two other open source graphics-drivers (based on the open code from VIA), Unichrome and Openchrome. For all practical purposes, they are quite mature. (E.g., you can play Quake III Arena with it <img src="http://linuxquestions.cachefly.net/images/questions/images/smilies/smile.gif" alt="" title="Smilie" smilieid="1" class="inlineimg" border="0"> and that's big!) Openchrome has XvMC support, while Unichrome is just a better program. But as far as I remember, KM400 doesn't have hardware acceleration anyway, so any driver should work.<br>Getting the driver to work was not trivial, and hence I will not say that video compatibility is fine.<br><br>Network... of course it works!<br>
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