Re: AMD and Asus motherboard compatibility with Linux

dan say wrote:
Looking to by a new PC box
AMD Athlon 64X2 4600 CPU
1 Gig or more RAM
Asus M2A-VM motherboard
with ATI X1250 video on board
on SATA 160G drive
Or
AMD Athlon 64X2 4600 CPU
1 Gig or more RAM
ASUS M2N4-SLI motherboard
adding the Geforce 6300 video card

Now I get hints in reading google searches on the motherboard numbers that there is some incompatiblity
in installing Linux.
I was hoping to install OpenSuse 10.2 but if it won't
work then I have to find a list of compatible new motherboards
that are [Vista Ready] ready for new technology and yet Linux can work easily with them.

Will only kernel 2.6.20 work with them?
The Question is : has any one installed OpenSuse on
such an arrangement easily?

I'm getting hints that acpi=off and noapci settings degrade performance but might be a fix, and that it is a south
bridge code broken on the motherboard.

There is nothing at Asus, Novell Suse database doesn't
yeild any information.
I've gone through google.com [web] and google.com/groups
and no clear information that I can proceed with such
a machine.


Well, I am running the M2N32SLI Deluxe from ASUS and I am dual booting with openSUSE 10.2. It did install with some problems: I had to install using the 'noapic ' command originally. Also, I had an issue where the LAN would not work in linux if I rebooted from Windows and loaded linux immediately. I had to totally power off the machine and turn off the power supply. Then, I rebooted and everything was fine -internet worked, etc. It is a nice os. On a side note, I would get 2 gigs of ram, just because you will be glad later. Also, perhaps a better cpu, the AMDs are down in price and you'll appreciate the extra ooomph later too...


Finally, you may just need to flash the bios once you get the board in your hands...


/.aRu


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My Rig:

MB: Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe Wireless board
CPU: AMD X2 4200
RAM: 2 gb Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800 RAM
VIDEO: MSI NX7600GT VT2D 256 Geforce 7600GT,
STORAGE DRIVE: Western Digital WD3200KS 320 gb sata drive
BOOT DRIVE: Western Digital 150 gb Raptor
External Drive: Western Digital 320 GB Dual-Option Backup
OPTICALS: 2 lite on optical drives; dvd and (DVD RW-DVD/R-DL DVD Multi-Recorder)
CASE: Cooler Master Mystique 631 case
POWER SUPPLY: Cooler Master SLI 550w Power Supply
Wireless: Realtek RTL8187 802.11g 54mps USB 2.0 Network Adapter
Printer: HP Laserjet 1020
MONITOR: Viewsonic 19" WS VA1912wb
Primary O.S.: Windows XP SP2 (32Bit Edition)
Secondary O.S.: openSUSE 10.2 64 Bit Edition
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