On Monday 15 October 2007, arijit sarkar wrote:

On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 17:08 +0100, Paul Hands wrote:

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Hi,

I just bought 2 ASUS mobos for AMD64.

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I would like a 64 bit

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system this time. Are there any recommendation out there for good boards.

Will be going to 10.3 in the new little while.

Go for ASUS mainboards.

I am using ASUS M2NPV-VM with AMDX2. openSUSE10.3 giving me superb performance.

-- arijit sarkar Kolkata, India

=========== Buy ASUS, expect problems and no support when running Linux! It's been a constant problem with asus for a long time. You takes your chances with asus. There are better choices available. lee -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Aniruddha wrote:

On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 23:22 -0400, BandiPat wrote:

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=========== Buy ASUS, expect problems and no support when running Linux! It's been a constant problem with asus for a long time. You takes your chances with asus. There are better choices available.

lee

This is pure fud, can you actually back these claims up?

I have to agree. I have an ASUS M2NPV-VM which I find is exceptionally well supported in SuSE 10.3. There were some minor problems with sound with 10.2 but were resolved quickly with a change of driver. This motherboard supports an AMD 5000+ Dual Core with 1Gb NIC. It even has TV out on the video section. I only have 3G of ram but it takes more. The only external card I've plugged in was a RocketRaid hardware SATA controller which brought the system up to 8 drives and 2.5TB of raid 5, a combo of 4 drives MD software raid and 4 drives hardware raid. To date, I have found both the board and ASUS to be quite compatible with SuSE and very inexpensive. It is very comparable to my experiences with other vendors such as A-Open and FIC which I have also had good results and am still using. Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 08:26 -0400, BandiPat wrote:

Several of us have many times here. Check the archives.

Lee

So, that means it's history. Now I think ASUS boards are well supported by Linux. Specially if you buy nForce-based mobo. I bought my asus m2npv-vm board last year. After that every single Linux distribution I've tried were very satisfying. Right now, I'm on openSUSE10.3 and all the components are well detected and performing. -- arijit sarkar Kolkata, India -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Tuesday 16 October 2007 11:15, Randall R Schulz wrote:

The hardware _is_ well-supported by Linux. Anecdotal evidence (is that an oxymoron?) is that Linux is _not_ well-supported by Asus. I cannot confirm or refute this, since the only thing I ever rely on the mainboard vendor for is BIOS updates.

Overall I have not found many problems with ASUS boards, but one thing I often have problems with (using these boards) is the sensors package. On an older board the package installed but the results were not useful. Apparently (information gathered from a web search) ASUS would not provide the appropriate hardware information to the developers at the time. (Sorry for lack of detail here, but I no longer have this board. It had an AMD K6 processor though, to give an idea of the timeline.) Several months ago I updated to a newer AMD Athlon 64 X2 system with an ASUS M2N-E mothboard. I did finally get sensors to work, and now I have exactly two items listed - temperatures for CPU0 and CPU1 - nothing more. The temperatures themselves seem reasonable, but no other information is reported. Of course this may all be down to me doing something wrong (a distinct possibility) or the fact that this is a relatively new (~1 year old?) motherboard. I have had no^H^H relatively few problem with the sensors package on any of the Intel boards I have used. Lots of information is available (fan speeds, voltages, memory usage, etc.) -- Don -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

I have had mixed experiences with ASUS. My main 64bit AMD machine and a similar machine at the university run beautifully and have given no trouble at all. However one individual machine with an ASUS board, I think it is ASUS M2NPV-VM, has always given problems. This has an on-board video, and is micro-ATX 1: The cursor kept vanishing. Solved by using a software cursor, but no assistance from mailing lists etc 2: Booting at run level 5 leads to a system that cannot be used; every character typed at the login screen changes screen resolution. Starting runlevel 3 is OK, and one can start X or xdm from there and it seems OK (was on 10.2; looked more broken on 10.3 but have not investigated yet) ==John ffitch -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Aniruddha wrote:

On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 23:22 -0400, BandiPat wrote:

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=========== Buy ASUS, expect problems and no support when running Linux! It's been a constant problem with asus for a long time. You takes your chances with asus. There are better choices available.

lee

This is pure fud, can you actually back these claims up?

While I've had success with asus boards some years ago, I've also heard reports since then that asus now seems somewhat hostile to linux users, so I doubt that he's making it up. Most recently I've had great luck with Intel motherboards, also Gigabyte. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org