ATX motherboards, Realtek Ethernet & SMP

Fabricio Chalub (fchalub@bigfoot.com)
Sun, 7 Jun 1998 03:17:47 -0300


Hi! I have two questions and one observation. ;-)

- Are there any plans to add ATX support in Linux? (I mean not just turning
off the computer at shutdown:). I work with a ATX board and you can get
information about everything inside the damn thing, like CPU temperatures,
fan speed, etc. Wouldn't it be great to have /dev's showing these
informations? You could even build a "poor man's" watchdog daemon... :P
Are there any technical information concerning these aspects? Maybe in the
end it boils down to reading BIOS data?

- I have a Realtek 8021 ethernet card that is being recognized as a NE-2000
compatible. Anyone here uses this card? It is good? This question is
related to the observation:

- My system suffers from the black screen of death syndrome. :( The longest
uptime is seven days. I know that eventually the computer will lock up:) I
have some "theories" concerning this:

. On all the occasions of the lockup SMP was enabled (I have 2 PII's),
As for now, the system is running for 3 days in UP.

. bad memory -- i'm waiting to see if it is the SMP ;) I hope I'll
wait forever :))

. buggy hardware (like some 3com cards) -- i have seen reports of
people having the black screen o' death with some 3com cards.
That's why I asked about the Realtek.

Good night to everyone! ;)

[]s fabricio

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