Fred Miller wrote:
On Sunday 11 April 2004 2:15 pm, Sid Boyce wrote:
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I'm beginning to see for the first time why you dislike Asus, with this board, I had a problem with the first XP2600+ which caused the fans to spin up and then it all died, the second one causes the CDROM and HD lights to lit, but it doesn't ouput any video, so I pressed into service an XP2200+ which works, so on Tuesday I have to take motherboard, memory and CPU back to the shop.
Asus has ALWAYS sold "price," NOT quality!
On google I found an article that pointed me to http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads, I downloaded and exploded linux_2.4.zip, there is a modules.conf file from which I got the details of what needed to be in /etc/modprobe.conf, after putting that stuff in and changing/deleting a few options, I have full audio using the snd-intel8x0 driver that is part of the 2.6.x kernels, I am on 2.6.5-mm4.
Good deal! KNOW problems with Asus are power regulation, on-board IDE, SCSI, video, and sound controllers, along with using odd-ball chipsets that affect memory and PCI. I reccomend Tyan for the most part.
Fred
I'm thinking that if my problems are not resolved on Tuesday, I shall change manufacturer, Asrock, Microstar or Gigabyte. Just looking through one of the mags here after remembering I haven't seen Tyan advertised for quite a while, there is A-bit, Asus, Asrock, DFI, ECS, EpoX, Gigabyte, Microstar, MSI, PC-Chips and Via, but not one mention of Tyan in a mag with copious adverts, from their website it looks like they have gone mainly for the highend workstation and server markets, e.g I haven't seen a board that supports less than an Opteron and mostly 2 and 4 processor boards. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.