Installed this new motherboard, but can't get 9.0 Pro to load the correct sound modules. YaST doesn't seem to be able to handle the 2.6.x kernels. The previous motherboard on which 9.0 was installed had a PCI ens1371 card, whereas this one has on-board sound. I've tried snd-ens1371, snd-intel8x0 and snd-via82xx, but all report Unknown symbols. I've noticed that this board has 2 separate sound sections, SPDIF and a normal one. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.
On Sunday 11 April 2004 9:32 am, Sid Boyce wrote:
Installed this new motherboard, but can't get 9.0 Pro to load the correct sound modules. YaST doesn't seem to be able to handle the 2.6.x kernels. The previous motherboard on which 9.0 was installed had a PCI ens1371 card, whereas this one has on-board sound. I've tried snd-ens1371, snd-intel8x0 and snd-via82xx, but all report Unknown symbols. I've noticed that this board has 2 separate sound sections, SPDIF and a normal one.
Sid, I admit to my dislike of Asus and have fought problems with their boards for a long time. The easiest and best way I've found, is to disable sound on the board and install a PCI sound card. Be greatfull you don't have more serious problems with it. Fred -- "Steve Ballmer is no more designed for the art of persuasion than the Abrams tank is for delivering meals on wheels."
Fred Miller wrote:
On Sunday 11 April 2004 9:32 am, Sid Boyce wrote:
Installed this new motherboard, but can't get 9.0 Pro to load the correct sound modules. YaST doesn't seem to be able to handle the 2.6.x kernels. The previous motherboard on which 9.0 was installed had a PCI ens1371 card, whereas this one has on-board sound. I've tried snd-ens1371, snd-intel8x0 and snd-via82xx, but all report Unknown symbols. I've noticed that this board has 2 separate sound sections, SPDIF and a normal one.
Sid, I admit to my dislike of Asus and have fought problems with their boards for a long time. The easiest and best way I've found, is to disable sound on the board and install a PCI sound card. Be greatfull you don't have more serious problems with it.
Fred
I'm beginning to see for the first time why you dislike Asus, with this board, I had a problem with the first XP2600+ which caused the fans to spin up and then it all died, the second one causes the CDROM and HD lights to lit, but it doesn't ouput any video, so I pressed into service an XP2200+ which works, so on Tuesday I have to take motherboard, memory and CPU back to the shop. 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" Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.
On Sunday 11 April 2004 2:15 pm, Sid Boyce wrote: [snip]
I'm beginning to see for the first time why you dislike Asus, with this board, I had a problem with the first XP2600+ which caused the fans to spin up and then it all died, the second one causes the CDROM and HD lights to lit, but it doesn't ouput any video, so I pressed into service an XP2200+ which works, so on Tuesday I have to take motherboard, memory and CPU back to the shop.
Asus has ALWAYS sold "price," NOT quality!
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.
Good deal! KNOW problems with Asus are power regulation, on-board IDE, SCSI, video, and sound controllers, along with using odd-ball chipsets that affect memory and PCI. I reccomend Tyan for the most part. Fred -- "Steve Ballmer is no more designed for the art of persuasion than the Abrams tank is for delivering meals on wheels."
Fred Miller wrote:
On Sunday 11 April 2004 2:15 pm, Sid Boyce wrote:
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I'm beginning to see for the first time why you dislike Asus, with this board, I had a problem with the first XP2600+ which caused the fans to spin up and then it all died, the second one causes the CDROM and HD lights to lit, but it doesn't ouput any video, so I pressed into service an XP2200+ which works, so on Tuesday I have to take motherboard, memory and CPU back to the shop.
Asus has ALWAYS sold "price," NOT quality!
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.
Good deal! KNOW problems with Asus are power regulation, on-board IDE, SCSI, video, and sound controllers, along with using odd-ball chipsets that affect memory and PCI. I reccomend Tyan for the most part.
Fred
I'm thinking that if my problems are not resolved on Tuesday, I shall change manufacturer, Asrock, Microstar or Gigabyte. Just looking through one of the mags here after remembering I haven't seen Tyan advertised for quite a while, there is A-bit, Asus, Asrock, DFI, ECS, EpoX, Gigabyte, Microstar, MSI, PC-Chips and Via, but not one mention of Tyan in a mag with copious adverts, from their website it looks like they have gone mainly for the highend workstation and server markets, e.g I haven't seen a board that supports less than an Opteron and mostly 2 and 4 processor boards. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.
On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 13:54, Fred Miller wrote:
On Sunday 11 April 2004 9:32 am, Sid Boyce wrote:
Installed this new motherboard, but can't get 9.0 Pro to load the correct sound modules. YaST doesn't seem to be able to handle the 2.6.x kernels. The previous motherboard on which 9.0 was installed had a PCI ens1371 card, whereas this one has on-board sound. I've tried snd-ens1371, snd-intel8x0 and snd-via82xx, but all report Unknown symbols. I've noticed that this board has 2 separate sound sections, SPDIF and a normal one.
Sid, I admit to my dislike of Asus and have fought problems with their boards for a long time. The easiest and best way I've found, is to disable sound on the board and install a PCI sound card. Be greatfull you don't have more serious problems with it.
Fred
-- "Steve Ballmer is no more designed for the art of persuasion than the Abrams tank is for delivering meals on wheels."
Hi all, There's a new "all OS's" BIOS update for that MB on Asus' website. - go to http://usa.asus.com/index.html - click on 'Downloads' - at "Please input Model Name" field, enter "A7N8X-E" and click "Go!" - the second file in the list is C18E1010.zip dated 03/31/2004 My 2 cents: I'd try updating the BIOS first. Of course, YMMV. Good luck & regards, - Carl - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - C. E. Hartung Business Development & Support Services Dover Foxcroft, Maine, USA http://www.cehartung.com "Jello is never very interesting until it is set and sure of itself!"
Carl Hartung wrote:
On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 13:54, Fred Miller wrote:
On Sunday 11 April 2004 9:32 am, Sid Boyce wrote:
Installed this new motherboard, but can't get 9.0 Pro to load the correct sound modules. YaST doesn't seem to be able to handle the 2.6.x kernels. The previous motherboard on which 9.0 was installed had a PCI ens1371 card, whereas this one has on-board sound. I've tried snd-ens1371, snd-intel8x0 and snd-via82xx, but all report Unknown symbols. I've noticed that this board has 2 separate sound sections, SPDIF and a normal one.
Sid, I admit to my dislike of Asus and have fought problems with their boards for a long time. The easiest and best way I've found, is to disable sound on the board and install a PCI sound card. Be greatfull you don't have more serious problems with it.
Fred
-- "Steve Ballmer is no more designed for the art of persuasion than the Abrams tank is for delivering meals on wheels."
Hi all,
There's a new "all OS's" BIOS update for that MB on Asus' website.
- go to http://usa.asus.com/index.html - click on 'Downloads' - at "Please input Model Name" field, enter "A7N8X-E" and click "Go!" - the second file in the list is C18E1010.zip dated 03/31/2004
My 2 cents: I'd try updating the BIOS first. Of course, YMMV.
Good luck & regards,
- Carl
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - C. E. Hartung Business Development & Support Services Dover Foxcroft, Maine, USA http://www.cehartung.com
"Jello is never very interesting until it is set and sure of itself!"
Been there, done that. I was hoping the 1010 BIOS would fix the problems with the 2600+, if anything, it's worse, it doesn't even attempt to boot, it's either a bad board or I have yet another bad CPU that just got worse. I quite like the features the board has, so if I can get a 2600+ or even faster CPU to work, I'd be happy. I shall have another look later, but there used to be a page telling you what the various BIOS updates fixed. I'm also thinking they didn't have DDR400 memory so the sold me 2x 256M PC2700 DIMMs, so it could be memory as Asus are pretty specific about what memory was tested and known to work. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.
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