Supported Chipsets

sirius56 · 11-16-2006, 01:07 PM

Please tell me where I can find a list of the chipsets supported by the current kernel?

Having such a list would save the aggravation of buying a new motherboard and then learning its chipset is not supported.

I've had no luck in searching the Forums or Google for such a list of supported chipsets.

Thank you.

pljvaldez · 11-16-2006, 01:24 PM

Can't say I've ever seen anything like it. The best thing to do is check the HCL here. And google a bunch before you actually buy the motherboard. When you pick a board, you should be able to find the chipset from the manufacturer website.

Occasionally I've also downloaded the latest kernel and looked through the .config file to see what is in there. But usually there's families of chipsets, so you might not be able to find your exact chipset listed.

sirius56 · 11-16-2006, 01:43 PM

Thank you. That might be what I was looking for.

One would hope there should be a table of chipsets or chipset classes.

Please tell me how to find the .confg file in the latest kernel. When you say download the kernel, I take it you mean kernel source?

Sorry, but I've never played with the kernel---YET.

pljvaldez · 11-16-2006, 03:20 PM

Yeah, download the source and unpack it. Then go into the /usr/src/kernel-blahblah directory and there should be a file .config. If not, it gets created when you first try to configure the kernel (i.e. make xconfig). You can either navigate through the xconfig program and read descriptions about the different chipsets or just use more/less/cat to go through the .config file by hand. The descriptions might not be in that file though, they might be somewhere else in the source tree and read by xconfig.