Asus - A7N8XE Deluxe Linux Compatibility & User Opinion
 

Hey All

My current motherboard is crapping out right now...damn MSI motherboards. I was looking at a couple motherboards.

Asus - A7NBXE Deluxe

&

Soyo - KT600 Ultra

I know that the the soyo board supports Linux (says so on the site). But the VIA chipset on the soyo board doesn't support dual channel ddr ram like the nvidia chipset on the asus board does. Has anyone had any problems getting linux to run on the asus board? Any known issues? I can't find anything on google.

Thanks to anyone who replies.

As you can see below I use the A7N8X Deluxe, running SuSe 9. I love this board. Not only does NVidia make linux drivers for it but they actually work quite well. I have no complaints with the motherboard except I wish they would have used a better voice for the post messages, as the one they picked sounds like a replicant Martha Stewart.

i don't recommend the soyo motherboard. because it's lan card was slower.
also, there wouldn't much problems with dual memory, i have two 512mb ddr and have no problem at all.
the sound card will work on asus motherboard or realtek

I've used several ASUS boards, and never had a problem.

That's Cool
 

Thanks Guys!

I'm gonna get the Asus board. I was looking at soyo because I built a computer for my dad with one, I built my mom's computer has one and I built one for my gf that has a soyo board in it and they all haven't had a problem.

I've just picked up a KT600 and planned on installing RedHat 9. The installation seems to go well but after the reboot I get a kernel panic: attempted to kill init! I've searched a little bit and found a couple other people with the same problem. I've tried disableing my onboard ethernet and raid functions all to no avail. I'm sure there is something I'm overlooking but you might keep that in mind before picking up the Soyo.

Why Bother W/ Rh9?
 

Save yourself the trouble and don't install RH9.....they are cutting ALL support in April. Install something else, I love gentoo. I will probably try Slackware when I get tired of gentoo.

why don't you try pass "apic=no" to the boot loader?

I am having trouble with loading sound modules on SuSE 9.0, snd-intel8x0, snd-via82xx and snd-ens1371 all report unknown symbols. I've also not heard the post messages, I have my speakers connected to the normal port, I haven't tried the SPDIF port so far.

you are loading the wrong driver, if you have installed the driver from nvidia.com, you should be loading "nvaudio"

I personally can say this much, it's a good idea to go with MSI because they're a great company. Also, www.newegg.com is much better than Tiger Direct. They ship lightning-fast, and have a huge and well-organized selection.

I recommend either the motherboard my friend has.

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...130-419&depa=1

Or the one I use.

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...130-418&depa=1

Both have the nforce2 chipset, but my board has SATA RAID, RAID, and a load of other extra goodies. I do recommend those boards a lot though.

On google I found an article that pointed me to http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads, I downloaded and exploded linux_2.4.zip, there is a modules.conf file from which I got the details of what needed to be in /etc/modprobe.conf, after putting that stuff in and changing/deleting a few options, I have full audio using the snd-intel8x0 driver that is part of the 2.6.x kernels, I am on 2.6.5-mm4.

alias char-major-116 snd
alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-11 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
options snd-intel8x0 id="ICH"

You know I recall there being speech post in my bios on this board, and never heard anything, and until now I never looked back. So there really is speech. Anyway, did you ever get SPDIF to work with SuSE 9.2, using the snd-intel8x0 drivers. My system tells me everything is fine but there is no sound. I tried all the stuff that other sites like nvidia and alsa tell you to do, to redirect sound for a digital setup but nada. I wonder if the regular port work? I have a digital only system so I guess I'll never know.

What has everyone else done, nvidia driver?

the options snd-intel8x0 id="ICH" is new one. I'll have to try that.

I haven't tried using the SPDIF so far.