Re: Status of ALi MAGiK 1 support in 2.4.?

[Mike Frisch]

On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 05:17:06PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > So it seems that only AMD and ALi are left with Socket A chipsets (SiS 735 is
> > yet to come). And the ALi MAGiK 1 has a good feature/cost ratio and is being
> > reported as very stable (although perhaps not very fast).
> > 
> > So having been burned in the recent past with VIAs KT133A/686B and Linux, I
> > hope that I can get an ALi MAGiK 1 board and rest in peace ...
> 
> It would be interesting to know how well the ALi stuff behaves. They've
> certainly been helpful in the Linux world, indeed they did the ALi parts
> of the trident sound driver themselves, including full 5.1 audio out and also
> chunks of the alim15x3 (IDE) driver

If there is anything in particular (benchmarks or stress tests) I can
help with in this regard, please let me know.  I am not a kernel hacker,
but a competent Linux user and programmer.  I am not afraid to get my
hands dirty.