[Mr. Chris]

b) You are not an official VIA employee but are telling me anyway that no VIA employee will answer my question;

Even at the old VIA Forums there were never any VIA employees. We were and still are an all volunteer user based Forum, like many others. VIA has never had and probably never will have an employee based Tech Forum.

It has always seemed to me that VIA cares little about the end user, trying to shuffle off any Tech assistance on the companies that used their chipsets on different brand boards. But now with Epia being a VIA product and being direct marketed to the masses, seems to me VIA needs their own Epia Forum at least. But it won't happen. VIA will not spend the time or the money.

John Gatt (our liason to VIA, if you will) and several partners dismantled the old VIA Forums and started TK Arena, but kept along the old VIA Forums to continue to try and help those with VIA products. So these Forums are totally a seperate identity from VIA, altho we continue to try and give customer support.

VIA moves slow, I would give it a little more time for the negotiating for decent Linux drivers. Chris.