[opensuse] New motherboard
Finally have to replace my motherboard after 5+ years. I have received an ASUS A88X-PLUS with an AMD A8-7600 APU unused from a friend at a good price. Has anyone had experience with this board/apu that would be willing to pass along their experiences/tips? I will need to get a new case due to the current desktop PC being severely damaged in a fire (not caused by the PC) so it will be several days before installing the new system. I should be able to use the existing drives or at least the backed-up drive images from an external source. questions: 1: What must be done to boot with the new MB/APU? 2: Does the OS (openSuSE 13.1-x86-64) need to be re-installed or can changes be accomplished using repair? 3: Video of new apu is ATI Radeon HD-7000. Is this version natively supported or should I boot into VGA and find a driver for it? Thanks, Tom -- Forgiveness is really not about someone’s harmful behavior; it’s about our own relationship with our past. When we begin the work of forgiveness, it is primarily a practice for ourselves. - Gina Sharpe, “The Power of Forgiveness ^^ --... ...-- / -.- --. --... -.-. ..-. -.-. ^^^^ Tom Taylor KG7CFC openSUSE 13.1 (64-bit), Kernel 3.11.6-4-default, KDE 4.11.2, AMD Phenom X4 955, GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Nvidia 337.19) 16GB RAM -- 3x1.5TB sata2 -- 128GB-SSD FF 27.0, claws-mail 3.10.0 registered Linux user 263467 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Thomas Taylor composed on 2015-03-14 23:53 (UTC-0700):
Finally have to replace my motherboard after 5+ years. I have received an ASUS A88X-PLUS with an AMD A8-7600 APU unused from a friend at a good price.
Has anyone had experience with this board/apu that would be willing to pass along their experiences/tips?
I will need to get a new case due to the current desktop PC being severely damaged in a fire (not caused by the PC) so it will be several days before installing the new system. I should be able to use the existing drives or at least the backed-up drive images from an external source.
questions: 1: What must be done to boot with the new MB/APU?
Assuming the AX88-PRO and AX88-Plus have no significant hardware differences, to get to command prompts, I expect nothing more than adding 3 to Grub cmdline to keep X from trying to start will need to be done.
2: Does the OS (openSuSE 13.1-x86-64) need to be re-installed or can changes be accomplished using repair?
Enable the repo with newer gfxchip firmware, then do updates with zypper. Make sure you've gotten the firmware update before trying X.
3: Video of new apu is ATI Radeon HD-7000. Is this version natively supported or should I boot into VGA and find a driver for it?
I installed 13.1, 13.2 and Tumbleweed on an AX88-Pro for a virtually blind fellow lister in November[1]. The onboard Radeon was an unsolvable problem for VLC and SMPlayer at the time, so I put in a cheap Radeon 5450 as a simple solution that would unlikely confound the owner as updates get installed. The ATI Kaveri firmware the onboard gfxchip needs is not part of 13.1. I was able to use required firmware to get X to work in 13.1 acceptably by enabling the "Drivers and tools" repo, but not the video players. Sound wouldn't consistently work, so I put in the PCI audio card used with his old motherboard. [1] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2014-12/msg00380.html -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 03:30:25 -0400 Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> wrote:
Thomas Taylor composed on 2015-03-14 23:53 (UTC-0700):
Finally have to replace my motherboard after 5+ years. I have received an ASUS A88X-PLUS with an AMD A8-7600 APU unused from a friend at a good price.
Has anyone had experience with this board/apu that would be willing to pass along their experiences/tips?
I will need to get a new case due to the current desktop PC being severely damaged in a fire (not caused by the PC) so it will be several days before installing the new system. I should be able to use the existing drives or at least the backed-up drive images from an external source.
questions: 1: What must be done to boot with the new MB/APU?
Assuming the AX88-PRO and AX88-Plus have no significant hardware differences, to get to command prompts, I expect nothing more than adding 3 to Grub cmdline to keep X from trying to start will need to be done.
2: Does the OS (openSuSE 13.1-x86-64) need to be re-installed or can changes be accomplished using repair?
Enable the repo with newer gfxchip firmware, then do updates with zypper. Make sure you've gotten the firmware update before trying X.
3: Video of new apu is ATI Radeon HD-7000. Is this version natively supported or should I boot into VGA and find a driver for it?
I installed 13.1, 13.2 and Tumbleweed on an AX88-Pro for a virtually blind fellow lister in November[1]. The onboard Radeon was an unsolvable problem for VLC and SMPlayer at the time, so I put in a cheap Radeon 5450 as a simple solution that would unlikely confound the owner as updates get installed. The ATI Kaveri firmware the onboard gfxchip needs is not part of 13.1. I was able to use required firmware to get X to work in 13.1 acceptably by enabling the "Drivers and tools" repo, but not the video players.
Sound wouldn't consistently work, so I put in the PCI audio card used with his old motherboard.
[1] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2014-12/msg00380.html
Thanks for the reply and information. The only difference between the PRO and PLUS versions of the M/B appear to be minor so your ideas should apply readily to my situation. Did you attempt to obtain Linux drivers for the APU? I wonder if installing that file would have allowed VLC and SMSPlayer to work. Not a problem for me as I rarely use those programs. Thanks again. Tom -- Forgiveness is really not about someone’s harmful behavior; it’s about our own relationship with our past. When we begin the work of forgiveness, it is primarily a practice for ourselves. - Gina Sharpe, “The Power of Forgiveness ^^ --... ...-- / -.- --. --... -.-. ..-. -.-. ^^^^ Tom Taylor KG7CFC openSUSE 13.1 (64-bit), Kernel 3.11.6-4-default, KDE 4.11.2, AMD Phenom X4 955, GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Nvidia 337.19) 16GB RAM -- 3x1.5TB sata2 -- 128GB-SSD FF 27.0, claws-mail 3.10.0 registered linux user 263467 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Thomas Taylor composed on 2015-03-14 10:01 (UTC-0700):
Did you attempt to obtain Linux drivers for the APU?
I don't remember anything more than I wrote in my previous reply. There's no answer to that in my installation notes either. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Sat 14 Mar 2015 10:01:35 AM CDT, Thomas Taylor wrote:
On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 03:30:25 -0400 Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> wrote:
Thomas Taylor composed on 2015-03-14 23:53 (UTC-0700):
Finally have to replace my motherboard after 5+ years. I have received an ASUS A88X-PLUS with an AMD A8-7600 APU unused from a friend at a good price.
Has anyone had experience with this board/apu that would be willing to pass along their experiences/tips?
I will need to get a new case due to the current desktop PC being severely damaged in a fire (not caused by the PC) so it will be several days before installing the new system. I should be able to use the existing drives or at least the backed-up drive images from an external source.
questions: 1: What must be done to boot with the new MB/APU?
Assuming the AX88-PRO and AX88-Plus have no significant hardware differences, to get to command prompts, I expect nothing more than adding 3 to Grub cmdline to keep X from trying to start will need to be done.
2: Does the OS (openSuSE 13.1-x86-64) need to be re-installed or can changes be accomplished using repair?
Enable the repo with newer gfxchip firmware, then do updates with zypper. Make sure you've gotten the firmware update before trying X.
3: Video of new apu is ATI Radeon HD-7000. Is this version natively supported or should I boot into VGA and find a driver for it?
I installed 13.1, 13.2 and Tumbleweed on an AX88-Pro for a virtually blind fellow lister in November[1]. The onboard Radeon was an unsolvable problem for VLC and SMPlayer at the time, so I put in a cheap Radeon 5450 as a simple solution that would unlikely confound the owner as updates get installed. The ATI Kaveri firmware the onboard gfxchip needs is not part of 13.1. I was able to use required firmware to get X to work in 13.1 acceptably by enabling the "Drivers and tools" repo, but not the video players.
Sound wouldn't consistently work, so I put in the PCI audio card used with his old motherboard.
[1] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2014-12/msg00380.html
Thanks for the reply and information. The only difference between the PRO and PLUS versions of the M/B appear to be minor so your ideas should apply readily to my situation.
Did you attempt to obtain Linux drivers for the APU? I wonder if installing that file would have allowed VLC and SMSPlayer to work. Not a problem for me as I rarely use those programs.
Thanks again.
Tom
Hi Check with the following command to see if boost state support is supported and active. cpupower -c all frequency-info I had to install the fglrx driver to get it active with a A4-5150M APU, then verify it's boosting with the command; cpupower monitor -m Mperf -- Cheers Malcolm °¿° LFCS, SUSE Knowledge Partner (Linux Counter #276890) SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 GNOME 3.10.1 Kernel 3.12.36-38-default up 2:48, 3 users, load average: 1.66, 0.72, 0.41 CPU AMD A4-5150M APU @ 3.3GHz | GPU Richland Radeon HD 8350G -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
participants (3)
-
Felix Miata -
Malcolm -
Thomas Taylor