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Operating Systems Linux Fedora Help me choose an OS for my old intel 845 board Post 302571535 by Corona688 on Monday 7th of November 2011 03:52:31 PM

11-07-2011

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If you're not willing to try and get Linux working I have no advice for you. Linux has unusually broad hardware compatibility for a non-Windows OS, whose fanbase has pressured many manufacturers into partially supporting their products and gotten many hardware devices whose manufacturers don't even acknowledge their existence to work anyway.

I'm not aware of a BSD or Solaris distribution made to appeal to home-users. These kind of server OSes consider a gui firmly optional.

Two more relevant facts:
1) Intel graphics, especially older Intel graphics, isn't the pits just in Linux, it's the pits in most respects in general.
2) Intel tries to be pretty decent about Linux support for their graphics. They don't always succeed, but they try, and the community usually manages to kludge their efforts into working. Other alternative OSes may not be so lucky.

...suggests to me that the chipset is a lemon in general and you may be better off putting in a cheap nvidia or something.

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pcic

PCIC(4) 						   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						   PCIC(4)

NAME

     pcic -- PC Card bridge driver

SYNOPSIS

     device pcic
     device pccard

DESCRIPTION

     The pcic driver provides support for older ISA and non-Yenta PCI PC Card bridges.	The pcic driver supports most ExCA devices attached to the
     ISA bus or PCI devices that do not conform to the Yenta specification.

     The following ISA devices, or true clones, are supported in the current code.

     Intel i82365SL Step A
     Intel i82365SL Step B
     Intel i82365SL Step C  Intel's original 16-bit PC Card controller.
     Intel i82365SL-DF	    Intel's last version of this device.  3.3V support was added.
     VLSI 82C146	    An older VLSI part with some issues on some machines.
     Cirrus Logic PD-6710
     Cirrus Logic PD-6720
     Cirrus Logic PD-6722   Cirrus Logic's pcic controller.  Compatible with the i82365SL Step C with the addition of a different 3.3V control.
     Ricoh RF5C296
     Ricoh RF5C396	    Ricoh's PC Card bridge chips.  These are compatible with the i82365SL Step C, but with yet another different 3.3V con-
			    trol.
     Vadem 365
     Vadem 465		    Compatible with i82365SL Step C.
     Vadem 468
     Vadem 469		    Like the earlier Vadem models, but with Vadem's own, incompatible, 3.3V control system.
     IBM PCIC		    IBM clone of the original i82365SL part, with its own ID register value.  Has no 3.3V ability.

     Many other vendors made parts in this arena, but most of them were compatible with one of the above chipsets.

     The following PCI pcmcia bridges are supported:

     Cirrus Logic PD6729
     Cirrus Logic PD6730

     O2micro OZ6729
     O2micro OZ6730

BUGS

     This does not work at all at the moment.

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