Hi, I am thinking about putting together an Athlon64 system at home. Does anyone have experience with the Chaintech ZNF3-250 mobo? How is SuSE 9.2 driver support for the onboard hardware: - nForce3 - 250 chipset - SATA, RAID0 - 7.1 channel , 24 bit sound - 8x AGP graphics slot - USB 2.0, firewire - broadcom gigabit lan - DDR400 ram - SD, MMC and CF card reader Also, are there any suggestions for a graphics card that has stable 3D driver support, that can be added through YOU? (nVidia, I presume, but which model is good these days, with good Linux support)? Thanks, John Craig
Onsdag 01 december 2004 17:43 skrev John Craig:
Well I'd say pick your poisen well !! I've got a MSI K8N neo2 Platinum - 54G here and "not having fun at all with SuSE 9.2" at all" ;-) I'm about to install SuSE for the 3'rd time to see what happens this time ;-) Johan
Johan Nielsen <yep@osterbo-net.dk> writes:
What's the problem? Where does it fail? Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
Onsdag 01 december 2004 19:43 skrev Andreas Jaeger:
Actually you don't deserve to feel the tension there is between me and SuSE ......... but since you're holding out your neck I'll give you a little status on my progress with installing 9.2 Pro on a PC with that board. Contrary to 9.1 it did see the first 2 HD's (seagate 200GB's SATA) so at least I don't have to have an old ATA drive around to get to "play" like back then. (I have 6 more of those 200GB drives waiting to get busy). I have an Asus V9520 V Suite (works out of the box with basic X.org) Standard mouse / old IBM 1 ton keyboard that just wont die (and needs a cleaning). The good old 19" Daewoo 901D is doing fine for the last 5-7 years. The part that doesn't work from a 9.2 out of the box point of view. Hmm ..... welllllll ... that's a long list .... but I can't connect to the net with that PC ;-) Yast detects one of the on-board nics (realtek 8169) sets it up and then: dhcpcd still waiting for data (forever) I suspect I'll have to delete those "unique keys" somewhere in the /var/lib/somewhere and have a go with the nvdia module (nvnet) and see if it gets detected And copy appropiate files to floppy (he he .... ) I kind of need the floppy entry in media ;-) (missing). Didn't get to fight adressing directly with the fd0: yet. OK For the 3'rd and 4'th SATA port on the board it's a plain no show. Any action with the Promise SATA II TX4 is just a dream for now I guess. (And I only need "ordinary" access) The following modules is loaded (as I know that's gonna be you first question) libata sata_nv sata_promise nvnet r8169 forcedeth I've tried with the latest and greatest from nVidia too Johan
onsdag 01 december 2004 20:50 skrev yep@osterbo-net.dk:
Yast detects one of the on-board nics (realtek 8169) sets it up and then:
dhcpcd still waiting for data (forever)
That's a kernel issue, have you tried another kernel? I'm using a MSI K8T NEO FIS2R motherboard, with a 8110S gigabit lan card built in. It didn't work out of the box with 9.1, but does with 9.2, no problems whatsoever. Have you looked at kernel messages concerning the device? Have you taken a look behind the mobo to see if the lights go on? What lan type are you using 1Gb? 100Mb? 10Mb? have you tried putting up a 10Mb hub between, or a 100Mb hub, to force the network rate? Tried setting up the kernel parameters to fix the network rate, in case that's the problem?
What on earth for?
Doh? works ok here, are you sure the floppy is installed in the bios?
I'm using a 160Gb Seagate hard disk on the 3rd SATA port (The promise SATA controller), without any problems. Tried it first on the 2nd SATA port, then switch to the third, as I believe that controller has better leverage as the CDROM's are connected to the plain ATA device (DVD Rom and DVD RW).
I've tried with the latest and greatest from nVidia too
Sure the mobo isn't out of order? Örn
Fredag 03 december 2004 01:20 skrev Örn Hansen:
Yes I have now tried with Gentoo livecd r1 (WORKS)
Have you taken a look behind the mobo to see if the lights go on?
Both do
To start detection of the NIC's all over
Yes I've been running the seagate disktools from it ;-)
Works with Gentoo livecd R1
I've tried with the latest and greatest from nVidia too
Sure the mobo isn't out of order?
YES
Örn
I will have another go with SuSE 9.2 today Johan
onsdag 01 december 2004 19:32 skrev Johan Nielsen:
MSI K8N NEO FIS2R here, and am enjoying the 3D world immensely. Only problem I've had so far, is with sound in Doom 3. My graphic card is an Asus ti4200 based card (Nvidia), works like a charm.
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