RE: Re: [opensuse] Leap 4.2 Log in Problem
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Von: Basil Chupin .
I always buy Gigabyte motherboards (and always use AMD cpus) and have NEVER found Gigabyte m/boards to be not friendly to Linux distro of any flavour.
Dear Basil. I would say that the latter sentence was the (maybe) only useful sentence of that post. All the rest does not seem a contribution. For what is your personal experience (that is, you and only you) I am happy that you did not have problems with Gigabyte. What this helps with the OP of the person seeking help...I do not know. What does this contradict what i did say: nothing. What this says about Gigabyte and Linux? Nothing. Gigabyte had recently several main-boards with incompatibility of the USB3 Chipset and some severe UEFI trouble. You need to switch on IOMMU and still you will get a continuous spamming of the kernel while booting anyway. The USB3 will not function correctly anyway. The 32bit version of Linux is not hit by this, so if you are using Gigabyte and 32 bit, you personal experience do not join anything to the post you are referring to. Especially as Leap exists only for 64. Contacted by me about the issue Gigabyte responded that they do not see any issue because "Windows works fine" and they do not support Linux in any way. (In other words: we do not give a FF) AND they are not new in recent times to abandon one MB revision over an other with half-baken UEFI BIOS without any update (hanging in beta and giving only AGESA updates when they have to because of exploits, lacking translations...a mess). I am talking about the AMD AM3+ platform, if you are Intel YMMV, although I doubt it. So my advice (by personal experience and if you google about gigabyte, linux, problem you will find) I would rather use Biostar or Asus with Linux. Ashrok by itself was not bad but had in my case build in "vista" specific crapware that makes that in the end "you get what you pay for" so better Asus. Oh, with 5 mainboards used personally only the 939 boards and AM2 where still of quality. Breakages have been much more frequent than expected. So fare about "ultra durable" claims. If you then have some advice to give to our friend in trouble here, please go ahead. All other things would be "hijacking a thread" that "may" still be useful should the O.P. come back here. If not have a good day, "expert". ;-) Cheers. P.S. This may come over "harsh", it shouldn't. if you wish to have an exchange over Linux Hardware compatibility, please feel welcome to open a new thread so people may exchange their experiences. May well be of interest (although I do not know if this would not be bullied by somebody being "waste of lines" or whatever. Concerning the latter, the recent usage of this list makes me wonder about the validity of such statements). --- Alle Postfächer an einem Ort. Jetzt wechseln und E-Mail-Adresse mitnehmen! http://email.freenet.de/basic/Informationen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 18/11/15 00:16, stakanov@freenet.de wrote:
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Basil Chupin .
I always buy Gigabyte motherboards (and always use AMD cpus) and have NEVER found Gigabyte m/boards to be not friendly to Linux distro of any flavour.
Dear Basil.
I would say that the latter sentence was the (maybe) only useful sentence of that post. All the rest does not seem a contribution. For what is your personal experience (that is, you and only you) I am happy that you did not have problems with Gigabyte. What this helps with the OP of the person seeking help...I do not know.
What does this contradict what i did say: nothing. What this says about Gigabyte and Linux? Nothing. Gigabyte had recently several main-boards with incompatibility of the USB3 Chipset and some severe UEFI trouble. You need to switch on IOMMU and still you will get a continuous spamming of the kernel while booting anyway. The USB3 will not function correctly anyway. The 32bit version of Linux is not hit by this, so if you are using Gigabyte and 32 bit, you personal experience do not join anything to the post you are referring to. Especially as Leap exists only for 64. Contacted by me about the issue Gigabyte responded that they do not see any issue because "Windows works fine" and they do not support Linux in any way. (In other words: we do not give a FF) AND they are not new in recent times to abandon one MB revision over an other with half-baken UEFI BIOS without any update (hanging in beta and giving only AGESA updates when they have to because of exploits, lacking translations...a mess). I am talking about the AMD AM3+ platform, if you are Intel YMMV, although I doubt it. So my advice (by personal experience and if you google about gigabyte, linux, problem you will find) I would rather use Biostar or Asus with Linux. Ashrok by itself was not bad but had in my case build in "vista" specific crapware that makes that in the end "you get what you pay for" so better Asus. Oh, with 5 mainboards used personally only the 939 boards and AM2 where still of quality. Breakages have been much more frequent than expected. So fare about "ultra durable" claims.
If you then have some advice to give to our friend in trouble here, please go ahead. All other things would be "hijacking a thread" that "may" still be useful should the O.P. come back here. If not have a good day, "expert". ;-)
Cheers.
P.S. This may come over "harsh", it shouldn't. if you wish to have an exchange over Linux Hardware compatibility, please feel welcome to open a new thread so people may exchange their experiences. May well be of interest (although I do not know if this would not be bullied by somebody being "waste of lines" or whatever. Concerning the latter, the recent usage of this list makes me wonder about the validity of such statements).
I see no lack of a contribution when I write that I have had no problems with any Gigabyte motherboard I have owned. My response was to the statement that Gigabyte motherboards always cause problems - which they don't. And as far as you "...talking about the AMD AM3+ platform,..." I am, in fact using right now an AMD3+ Gigabyte motherboard -- see my signature line below -- and have not had any problems with it since I bought it a couple of years ago. Not a single 'hickup'. The USB3 is working perfectly. Everything is working perfectly - so what more does a girl want? You mention UEFI above. My Gigabyte m/board has this UEFI thingie - but -- did you know this? -- you don't need it if you are running openSUSE? Unless of course you are formatting your partitions in BTFRS (or something - check it out for yourself). In my BIOS I have UEFI turned off and openSUSE runs as happy as a bug in a rug. No problemo. So, the bottom line is: don't blame Gigabyte but first check to see if you have somehow forgotten to set the BIOS correctly which then goes to cause 'you' problems. One of the biggest problem creators I find when reading posts is that people forget to turn off the built-in graphics chip or network chip when they also have a card installed. BC -- Using openSUSE 13.2, KDE 4.14.9 & kernel 4.3.0-4 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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