On Wednesday, July 11, 2012 07:05 AM Gary Hodder wrote:
Hi all,
I am wondering what motherboards users are using on there Linux box? I had a Asus m4a79t deluxe but in corroded under 2 years and failed. Asus blames the customer oxidation and will not give warranty even though it has 3 years warranty. Strange how a old p5 Intel machine beside it is perfectly fine. Asus warranty not worth the paper its written on. Have a Asus crosshair V formula that spent more times being repaired than been used. It still comes up with eprom errors on boot and runs like a dog and Asus will not give money back as they say they do not support Linux. So we have proved that this brand is crap, what else is there?
Am looking at the Gigabyte ga-990fxa-d3, does this board play well with Linux as looking at putting it in what was the m4a79t box.
Thanks Gary.
I have the m4a79td pro. I have had relatively good luck with Asus mobo's. I also have a Gigabyte 770 board, and even though I had a choke go bad once before in a Gigabyte mobo, overall I've had good luck with this brand, too. These are the only two brands that I use anymore. Few if any of the mobo suppliers support Linux, and IME when the vendor says it does, often it is with driver code that is old and/or doesn't work entirely if at all and/or is a real headache to get working. Besides, trying to get support service of any kind directly from the Taiwan manufacturers is often a dead-end. When I buy a board now, I start with the chipset/cpu decision incl what the Linux kernel support is for it. A board can have quirks, but usually if the kernel works fine with the chipset and the cpu is supported, most everything will work unless there are additional discreet devices. Extra attention is warranted also checking into the new AMD and Intel integrated graphics, been a lot of issues there. I look for reviews (newegg.com is a good resource) by Linux users, as sometimes a particular distro or version is needed or won't work. I rarely see openSUSE mentioned, typically Fedora or Ubuntu, but from there I can determine what I can do with openSUSE. So e.g. when I installed 11.4 on my m4a79td, I had to pull a newer kernel to get everything working. Tip: I've encountered situations where the kernel code for the new hardware is not in the mainline but in a separate module. Sometimes that module(s) needs to be loaded when the kernel initializes, and hence needs to be in the initrd. Running a LiveCD/DVD can identify the modules so that you can rebuild the initrd in advance. Otherwise the machine may not boot. Good luck. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org