Jack Morgan said:

>Why is that? My MSI KT7 Turbo2 VIA KT133A (VT8363A/VT82C686B) is running 
>well under 1.5.3_ALPHA. I haven't got around to getting the AC97 Audio
>working but shouldn't be a problem as it was working under Linux. 

Yup, I have an EPOX 8KTA3.

pchb0: VIA Technologies product 0x0305 (rev. 0x03)
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0: VIA Technologies product 0x8305 (rev. 0x00)
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
pci1: i/o space, memory space enabled

pcib0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0
pcib0: VIA Technologies VT82C686A (Apollo KX133) PCI-ISA Bridge (rev. 0x40)
pciide0 at pci0 dev 7 function 1: VIA Technologies VT82C686A (Apollo KX133) ATA100 controller

The AC97 audio works fine.

The only change I might make is to ditch the EIDE hard drive in favor of
SCSI.

I do have an Acer CDRW which always downgrades on first write access, but
that could be the drive or the chipset.
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