Re: AMD and Asus motherboard compatibility with Linux

dan say wrote:
aRu wrote:
dan say wrote:
Looking to by a new PC box
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.

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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That's the kind of confirmation news I wanted
to hear. Did you consider any other mobos?

Yes, the board supports 8 Gig and I thought of
getting 4 gig for vmware and running various
This noapic sounds like the Knoppix 5.1.1 "broken bios" options.
Once it was installed you could ignore
a "no apic" line?

Now flashing a BIOS can invite troubles. Which
number of BIOS update did you use? 704? And the
phrase "may just need to flash" implies that you
didn't flash it.
M@N boards don't have a video on board, what did
you use? Oops, I'm looking at your signature and there it is
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<SNIP>

Thanks for the confirmation


Well, I believe I use the noapic command everytime I load up 10.2. Everything works as far as I have seen so far. I did not consider other boards, really. I read and researched for about a month before dropping the cash for the system you see in my sig. I did not flash the bios, I have the same one the board shipped with (4.06)...





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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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