are there any issues with the kt333 motherboards and linux systems red hat 7.3, suse8, and mandrake8.2

Maybe, check out Aussie's thread in Linux General about the new support in 2.4.19. The newer 333 boards have I think its an southbridge chip that didn't have proper support in 2.4.18. It'll install, but flake out a lot, so you can install Mandy, SuSe, RH, Slack, Deb 3.0, all of which shipped recently with 2.4.18 and then compile a fresh 2.4.19 and be fine.

Aside from that, integrated components, video, sound the usual culprits are sometimes a crapshoot. Post back here in hardware when you've narrowed to a specific board and we can give you a good idea.

Luck on the new system,

Finegan

thanks for the info. will probably get the abit kg7 raid board, found it for $70, cheap. the amd 761 is no slouce, and i really do think theres that much difference between the amd 761 and kt333, maybe 6 fps in games.

Okay, the KG7-Raid:

AMD761/VIA686B have been supported for ages, well past the bug ridden stage.

The Highpoint Controller is a HPT370, I've got one of these, works great under 2.4.18+19.

This is just a solidly supported no integrated frills board, looks like a real good one. I dig Abit too, sometimes panned on Tom's for being pokey'er, but I haven't had one blow up yet, even under stupid circumstances.

Cheers,

Finegan

yup, the amd 761 works well with linux systems. i have downloaded red hat , suse and mandrake, slackware with no problems at all.

i wanted to get the abit kg7-r because i have 2 gig ga-7dxr and 7dxr+ boards, i fried the dxr with my processor the other day. reason was i used thermal tape on the heatsink, quess it,s used mostly for memory heatsinks. am i ticked,$270 just fried in front of me .

later ron thanks

Allrighty then. . . I've been looking at the A-bit KD7-E. I'm just looking for a simple setup (no raid). Are there any issues with kernel 2.4.21 with this board and ATA 133?

Thanks

If its just a Promise or Highpoint controller, all of the ATA133s were finally included in 2.4.21 backported from 2.5.x

Cheers,

Finegan