Hardware Support questions
Can anyone point me to a list of supported motherboards ? I'm building a new PC and looking either the Asus z790 Maximus Hero or the Asus z90 Maximus Formula motherboards but I'm having trouble confirming that these motherboards are supported. Anybody using Tumbleweed on one of those motherboards ? Those boards have an HDMI port and 2 Thunderbolt 4 ports and the Thunderbolt 4 ports support DisplayPort over Thunderbort 4. I have a dual 27" monitor setup with one of the monitors using DisplayPort currently and was planning to get a DisplayPort to Thunderbolt 4 cable. Does anyone know if that is supported ? Thanks in advance!
On 2023-11-21 01:47, Joe Salmeri wrote:
Can anyone point me to a list of supported motherboards ?
I'm building a new PC and looking either the Asus z790 Maximus Hero or the Asus z90 Maximus Formula motherboards but I'm having trouble confirming that these motherboards are supported.
There was the HCL, which was never very up to date, and now redirects to <https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Hardware> -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.5 (Laicolasse))
On 11/20/23 17:34, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2023-11-21 01:47, Joe Salmeri wrote:
Can anyone point me to a list of supported motherboards ?
I'm building a new PC and looking either the Asus z790 Maximus Hero or the Asus z90 Maximus Formula motherboards but I'm having trouble confirming that these motherboards are supported.
There was the HCL, which was never very up to date, and now redirects to <https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Hardware>
This may not be of much help, but I've been installing SuSE/openSUSE on all kinds of laptops, desktops, workstations, and servers since 1998 and I've yet to encounter an incompatibility. True, there used to be some issues with laptop special function keys and WiFi interfaces, but I haven't seen even that for many years. The servers include Dell, HP, and Supermicro, all worked well. The desktops included Dell, HP, MSI, Asus, Lenovo, and others. I even set up a dual-CPU Supermicro server that had 246 separate, non-raided disk drives. I've got other servers with 500-terabytes of raid storage and 512-GB of ECC ram. All running openSUSE. So basically, I'd be surprised if you could find a motherboard that wouldn't be compatible with openSUSE or Tumbleweed. I don't know if you could do this any longer, but one time I brought a bootable USB thumb drive to a Fry's computer store and asked if I could boot one of their display laptops using the SuSE rescue system on the stick. They let me, and it worked. I then purchased the laptop. But that being said, I can't say anything about your Asus mobo's, your mileage may vary. Regards, Lew
On 2023-11-21 03:12, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
On 11/20/23 17:34, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2023-11-21 01:47, Joe Salmeri wrote:
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This may not be of much help, but I've been installing SuSE/openSUSE on all kinds of laptops, desktops, workstations, and servers since 1998 and I've yet to encounter an incompatibility. True, there used to be some issues with laptop special function keys and WiFi interfaces, but I haven't seen even that for many years. The servers include Dell, HP, and Supermicro, all worked well. The desktops included Dell, HP, MSI, Asus, Lenovo, and others. I even set up a dual-CPU Supermicro server that had 246 separate, non-raided disk drives. I've got other servers with 500-terabytes of raid storage and 512-GB of ECC ram. All running openSUSE.
I had some trouble with this Lenovo laptop, the WiFi was not recognized. However, with help from people on the list, the chipset was identified, kernel on the then beta 15.5 got the driver backported from upstream, and it worked. That was amazing. There is still some problem that the WiFi doesn't always work after a suspend to ram. Otherwise, most of the functionality does work. But I chose a laptop model that the manufactured "almost" supplied with Linux preinstalled, so it should work. I said "almost" because they supply the L15 with Linux, not the L14. 14 inches. And when I asked if they would install Linux on this model, they said I could buy it with no system and install it myself, so the brand is friendly to Linux. I had more trouble with my previous laptop, same brand. There are features that still do not work (limit charge to battery to increase life, for instance). I also have trouble with one of my machines with Intel video, so this laptop runs on AMD. I had significant trouble on another machine with NVidia driver. The company ceased to support my card after a number of years and I had to go back to the opensource driver instead, which is slower and doesn't have (full) hardware acceleration, and the desktop crashes some times. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.5 (Laicolasse))
On 11/20/23 18:51, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I had some trouble with this Lenovo laptop, the WiFi was not recognized. However, with help from people on the list, the chipset was identified, kernel on the then beta 15.5 got the driver backported from upstream, and it worked. That was amazing.
There is still some problem that the WiFi doesn't always work after a suspend to ram.
Hibernation and suspending are known to be buggy. Even M$ WinBlows doesn't get it right all the time.
I had more trouble with my previous laptop, same brand. There are features that still do not work (limit charge to battery to increase life, for instance). I also have trouble with one of my machines with Intel video, so this laptop runs on AMD.
I haven't seen any issues with Intel graphics myself. Indeed, that's what I'm using right now on my home MSI desktop.
I had significant trouble on another machine with NVidia driver. The company ceased to support my card after a number of years and I had to go back to the opensource driver instead, which is slower and doesn't have (full) hardware acceleration, and the desktop crashes some times.
I've had problems with obsolete Nvidia cards too. But Nouveau worked well enough for those edge cases. Regards, Lew
Thanks very much Lew and Carlos for your input. I proceeded with the new system build yesterday and installed TW 20231120. Install was normal ( I have not installed all my other packages yet but found 1 issues. The z790 Formula uses the Realtek 8126 5 Gbit Wired network and there was no driver in TW for it. Fortunately wifi worked but I don't want to use wifi on this computer. lspci | grep net 05:00.0 Ethernetcontroller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8126 (rev 01) So it detects the 8126 just fine it just doesn't have a driver for it. I checked realtek.com and found https://www.realtek.com/en/component/zoo/category/network-interface-controll... Looks like the download still says 8125, but I compiled the source and then I had to sign the module since Secure Boot is enabled. After that the driver loaded and I now have wired networking. Can someone please direct me as to how to get this driver included in TW or even better in the kernel as I'm not sure where I would need to request that and I can then point them to the source that I downloaded and compiled. THANKS for your assistance! On 11/20/23 21:12, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
On 11/20/23 17:34, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2023-11-21 01:47, Joe Salmeri wrote:
Can anyone point me to a list of supported motherboards ?
I'm building a new PC and looking either the Asus z790 Maximus Hero or the Asus z90 Maximus Formula motherboards but I'm having trouble confirming that these motherboards are supported.
There was the HCL, which was never very up to date, and now redirects to <https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Hardware>
This may not be of much help, but I've been installing SuSE/openSUSE on all kinds of laptops, desktops, workstations, and servers since 1998 and I've yet to encounter an incompatibility. True, there used to be some issues with laptop special function keys and WiFi interfaces, but I haven't seen even that for many years. The servers include Dell, HP, and Supermicro, all worked well. The desktops included Dell, HP, MSI, Asus, Lenovo, and others. I even set up a dual-CPU Supermicro server that had 246 separate, non-raided disk drives. I've got other servers with 500-terabytes of raid storage and 512-GB of ECC ram. All running openSUSE.
So basically, I'd be surprised if you could find a motherboard that wouldn't be compatible with openSUSE or Tumbleweed.
I don't know if you could do this any longer, but one time I brought a bootable USB thumb drive to a Fry's computer store and asked if I could boot one of their display laptops using the SuSE rescue system on the stick. They let me, and it worked. I then purchased the laptop.
But that being said, I can't say anything about your Asus mobo's, your mileage may vary.
Regards, Lew
-- Regards, Joe
On 2023-11-22 19:55, Joe Salmeri wrote:
Thanks very much Lew and Carlos for your input.
I proceeded with the new system build yesterday and installed TW 20231120.
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After that the driver loaded and I now have wired networking.
Can someone please direct me as to how to get this driver included in TW or even better in the kernel as I'm not sure where I would need to request that and I can then point them to the source that I downloaded and compiled.
Bugzilla.
THANKS for your assistance!
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Submitting_bug_reports -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.5 (Laicolasse))
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