On Wednesday 24 November 2004 19:05, Rikard Johnels wrote:
Hi all! I am on the verge of building my new Linuxbox. I am looking at the ASUS PC-DL motherboard for Dual XEON CPU's. Does anyone have any experience running Linux on such a board?
I want to know if i should go for that particular motherboard. Does Linux find everything? (Ports, Gigabit LAN, sound etc.) Is the onboard chipsets supported (S-ATA and RAID among others)
I plan for dual 3.2 GHz, 2 Gigs of RAM and as many and as big disks as possible. (I don't plant to upgrade the hardware anytime soon)
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/Rikard
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Sorry for replying direct, I cannot yet post to the list. I just built a machine for myself using the "dreaded" Asus system board and have had absolutely no troubles except for the built in sound card. Although my system is quite different from the one you propose, I have found that the chipset used on the board is more responsible for the operation than the company who assembles the board. Asus is a reputable manufacturer and they take devices from many other companies to assemble a board. My system has a K8V SE board, AMI BIOS, an AMD processor, the Via chipset, a built in Marvell Gig net controller, both a Promise and a Via SATA RAID controller. I used an ATI 9200 video card and a Sony DRU 710A DVD burner. Last night, I installed SuSE 9.2 on a fresh drive without problems of any sort. Everything, with the exception of the sound card, was recognized and installed without issue. It all seems to work and I expect no troubles. If this helps you, fine. If not, well there's no harm done. Bart Hollis New Britain CT USA -- Registed Linux User #368146