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On Saturday 29 January 2011 06:33:39 Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 6:18 AM, <meino.cramer@×××.de> wrote: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > when listing my hardware with lshw I find some stuff build |
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> > into my ASUS Crosshair IV Formula, which I seem not to use |
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> > and I like to know, for what it is good for: |
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> > These are excerpts from the output of lshw: |
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> <SNIP> |
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> > but...for what reason there is an audio device in my graphics card? |
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> > Sounds to me like a bicycle with onboard toaster... ;) |
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> I love the picture, however it is more likely for things like audio over |
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> HDMI.. |
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> > for the smbus thingy as for the ISA-bridge there no additional info. For |
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> > what reason there is an ISA bridge on a board which skipped floppy |
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> > controller and IDE??? |
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> The ISA stuff is likely for historical conformance to the PC |
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> architecture. Not sure if modern motherboards use it anymore, but |
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> maybe they do. |
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they do. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Pin_Count |
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> IIRC the smbus is involved in power switch stuff. It's not unlike I2C |
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> but more simple. |
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also the spd-eeprom on your memory modules can be accessed via smbus. And some |
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kinds of sensors chips. And a lot more. |
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