Problems with ASUS MOBO....
Anybody gotten the ASUS A7N8X Deluxe to work with SuSE Linux 8.2??? System: MOBO ASUS A7N8X Deluxe MEM 2x 512MB 333 PC7200 CPU AMD AthlonXP 3000+ (333) VGA Saphire ATI Radeon 9600 PRO It's up and running. But without the build in 3Com en NVidia network port, no sound and no 3D for the ATI. And no update's applied. Which kernel do i need to get network and sound on the MOBO to work ??? (2.4.21/2.4.22/2.6.0). What do I have to do to get 3D gaming to work??? Stefan. Thank In Advance.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 24 September 2003 05:49 pm, S. Bulterman wrote:
Anybody gotten the ASUS A7N8X Deluxe to work with SuSE Linux 8.2???
Yep. First thing to do is disable acpi. Add acpi=off to your kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst. You will also have to disable anything unnecessary in the BIOS. Firewire, etc.
It's up and running. But without the build in 3Com en NVidia network port,
I had trouble with the 3Com NIC. It would occasionally get into a state where it would send ARP requests but wouldn't receive the replies. I ended up downloading the NIC driver from http://www.nvidia.com . Be sure to just install the NIC driver and modify /etc/modules.conf to alias eth0 to 'nvnet'. Don't bother with the sound driver from there.
no sound and no 3D for the ATI.
Grab the kernel update. Sound works fine for me, except that the digital out isn't working. My kernel is k_athlon-2.4.20-100. Just use YaST2 to configure the sound. 3D for non-Nvidia cards is only supported in recent kernels. I'm not sure if the 2.4.20-100 release has it. You may need to use a kernel from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mantel to get 3D working. I broke down and bought an Nvidia, but I'm regretting that decision because the driver goes crazy every once in a while and takes up 100% CPU. The Serial ATA works great and is way faster than PATA, but if any interfaces do not have drives attached, you will have to wait for it to timeout at boot. I have one drive attached, and I had to manually setup DMA by putting 'hdparm - -d1 -X66 /dev/hde' in /etc/init.d/boot.local. I found that other combinations caused the machine to lockup. Hope that helps, - -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/cvZO+FOexA3koIgRAkjVAJ0YE5GbsmT8mj9IbTK05Q/kJJ+SYQCeIW8P TucPCzGpiqv/FbWphghzRrI= =tWzH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
James Oakley wrote:
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On Wednesday 24 September 2003 05:49 pm, S. Bulterman wrote:
Anybody gotten the ASUS A7N8X Deluxe to work with SuSE Linux 8.2???
Yep. First thing to do is disable acpi. Add acpi=off to your kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst.
You will also have to disable anything unnecessary in the BIOS. Firewire, etc.
Thanks that did it.
It's up and running. But without the build in 3Com en NVidia network port,
I had trouble with the 3Com NIC. It would occasionally get into a state where it would send ARP requests but wouldn't receive the replies. I ended up downloading the NIC driver from http://www.nvidia.com . Be sure to just install the NIC driver and modify /etc/modules.conf to alias eth0 to 'nvnet'. Don't bother with the sound driver from there.
Hmmm, with me the NVidia NIC is giving me problems and the 3Com NIC seems to work perfect.
no sound and no 3D for the ATI.
Grab the kernel update. Sound works fine for me, except that the digital out isn't working. My kernel is k_athlon-2.4.20-100. Just use YaST2 to configure the sound.
Grabbed the k_athlon-2.4.20-100 kernel and it seems not to work. The fglrx driver is loaded but it can't initialise agp. And agpgart module refuses to load.
3D for non-Nvidia cards is only supported in recent kernels. I'm not sure if the 2.4.20-100 release has it. You may need to use a kernel from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mantel to get 3D working. I broke down and bought an Nvidia, but I'm regretting that decision because the driver goes crazy every once in a while and takes up 100% CPU.
Gone try the mantel 2.4.21 kernel. If that doesn't work ill try it with a spare ASUS FX 5200 video card.
The Serial ATA works great and is way faster than PATA, but if any interfaces do not have drives attached, you will have to wait for it to timeout at boot. I have one drive attached, and I had to manually setup DMA by putting 'hdparm - -d1 -X66 /dev/hde' in /etc/init.d/boot.local. I found that other combinations caused the machine to lockup.
I'll try it when I replaced my IDE Zip drive with a external SCSI or USB drive.
Hope that helps,
This helps a lot. Just gotta love the linux communitie.
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