Some tests with side effects

Lots of I/O (and more on the board) I used my Shuttle ATX to power up the VIA board. All went well, including booting Knoppix (live-CD Linux - zero installation). With the TV card plugged in Knoppix stalled when starting X, or shortly thereafter. Hm, I hope XP or W2K do better.

While that took me only 1h, it took me 2h to get the Shuttle working again: I believe I had plugged the monitor in the wrong VGA port (it has two). After booting and watching the runnning lights - nothing. Luckily VNC still worked. I tried using the other VGA port, a different monitor, to no avail. The monitor worked when booting Knoppix. After fiddling and cursing I eventually booted the system so that two monitors, one 1024 x 768 and one 1280 x 1024 were visible in the config panel. The correct one (1280 x 1024) was the second. I made this one the primary, deactivated the other , and - zip - the whole thing worked again. Go figure...