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Summary
Product:
Shuttle MK20N Motherboard
Vendor:
Shuttle Inc
Tested operating systems:
Linux other
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Shuttle MK20N Motherboard
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Operating System: Linux other Rating:
Submitted on 2002-08-01 12:00:00
Operating System: Linux other Rating:
Submitted on 2002-08-01 12:00:00
Anonymous
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This motherboard works, but expect to have problems, if you can possibly avoid it then do not purchase this motherboard.
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Networking works but only in half duplex mode (few sites give true 100Mb/s so less of a problem than it might be.
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Built in video works but the quality is low. You MUST add SWCursor to your XFree86-4 or you'll run into problems. The video is unable to take advantage of even midrange monitors.
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A Via chipset bug causes very serious hardware problems that can be avoided by running Kernel 2.4.19 (no earlier) or applying the via_mwq.patch. Using dma (hdparm -d from memory) also helps.
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The bios incorrectly detects hard drive parameters for every IDE drive I've tried it with. Linux gets them all correct but it causes a number of warnings.
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Other than that it works fine ;-)
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Networking works but only in half duplex mode (few sites give true 100Mb/s so less of a problem than it might be.
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Built in video works but the quality is low. You MUST add SWCursor to your XFree86-4 or you'll run into problems. The video is unable to take advantage of even midrange monitors.
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A Via chipset bug causes very serious hardware problems that can be avoided by running Kernel 2.4.19 (no earlier) or applying the via_mwq.patch. Using dma (hdparm -d from memory) also helps.
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The bios incorrectly detects hard drive parameters for every IDE drive I've tried it with. Linux gets them all correct but it causes a number of warnings.
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Other than that it works fine ;-)
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Networking works.
Installed OS from network.
Audio and video not tested.