On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 03:57:25PM +0200, Jacek Poplawski wrote:
> Could you recommend motherboard which works perfecly stable with Linux?
> Last time I bought Asus K8V-X SE which was huge mistake - it has
> serious problems with AGP in Linux.
The A8V on the other hand works flawlessly. I have been running one for
about 4 years and AGP works fine on it.
> Now I think about Intel chipset - P35 or P45.
> I want Asus, Gigabyte or MSI board with heat pipe.
> But I found another issue with audio and network drivers for Asus
> boards, so maybe I will skip Asus this time?
>
> Which motherboard works stable for you?
My mythtv box runs a Q6600 on an Asus P5K which so for works great. It
does have the occational odd message abour CRC errors from the network
port (atl) although networking is working just fine. No idea what that
is about, so I am not too concerned about it.
I have used Asus boards for 15 years now, and I am not switching.
Enough other boards have given weird problems that should be that I
don't want to deal with them. I do avoid certain brands of chipsets
though, even on Asus boards, becasue even Asus can only do so much with
the components they are given. So I have not used SiS since 486 days
(where they were really good), no longer bother with VIA since they just
don't seem to be that good when it comes down to the details, and no
ATI. So intel and nvidia chipset boards are what I use on Asus boards.
So far it has worked for me for running Linux.
--
Len Sorensen
>> Now I think about Intel chipset - P35 or P45.
>> I want Asus, Gigabyte or MSI board with heat pipe.
>> But I found another issue with audio and network drivers for Asus
>> boards, so maybe I will skip Asus this time?
>>
>> Which motherboard works stable for you?
I got an ASUS P5Q (P45 chipset) a couple of weeks ago. A couple of
minor issues:
* The Marvell IDE controller is broken in 2.6.25 and 2.6.26.
* Make sure the sata controller is running in AHCI mode
* The onboard Atheros NIC is not supported in the kernel. I have to
build the driver seperately (it's actually on the driver disk)
The intel HD audio works great.
On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 10:03:55AM -0500, Matthew Stoltenberg wrote:
> I got an ASUS P5Q (P45 chipset) a couple of weeks ago. A couple of
> minor issues:
> * The Marvell IDE controller is broken in 2.6.25 and 2.6.26.
Well I must admit I have never tried a marvell ide controller before.
Support only seems very recent, so they are not yet on my list of things
I know work.
> * Make sure the sata controller is running in AHCI mode
Well of course, AHCI is a lovely feature to have.
> * The onboard Atheros NIC is not supported in the kernel. I have to
> build the driver seperately (it's actually on the driver disk)
Atheros? Hmm, the P5K was using atlantic, so I wonder why they are not
using atheros.
> The intel HD audio works great.
That's always something.
So overall it sounds like:
Sound works
IDE probably will soon
Networking can be made to work, and hopefully will go in mainline kernel
soon.
SATA works.
That's not too bad for a brand new board.
--
Len Sorensen
On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 12:09:33PM -0400, wrote:
> Atheros? Hmm, the P5K was using atlantic, so I wonder why they are not
> using atheros.
So I am clueless here. atl is atheros, which is what I have on my
P5K, except an older model. I see mentions that 2.6.27 is supposed to
suport the new chip on the P5Q.
--
Len Sorensen
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Lennart Sorensen
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 12:09:33PM -0400, wrote:
>> Atheros? Hmm, the P5K was using atlantic, so I wonder why they are not
>> using atheros.
>
> So I am clueless here. atl is atheros, which is what I have on my
> P5K, except an older model. I see mentions that 2.6.27 is supposed to
> suport the new chip on the P5Q.
Well... That's what I get for not doing make oldconfig :) Voila...
It works in rc7.