Re: Motherboards for Core2 Duo
- From: General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:29:05 -0500
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:19:57 +0000, Scott Alfter wrote:
In article <pan.2006.10.28.16.04.10.704410@xxxxxxxxx>,
General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If you have a Core2 system, which motherboard are you using, have there
been any Linux compatibility problems?, any memory compatibility problems?
(965s are supposed to be finicky), are you happy with it?
I just bought one this afternoon...picked up an E6300 and a Gigabyte
GA-945P-S3, along with a video card and memory (since the AGP video card and
DDR memory I used with an Athlon 64 weren't going to work). Memory was
whatever Fry's had in stock that wasn't ridiculously-expensive gamer-d00d
memory...turned out to be a pair of Kingston ValueRAM 512MB PC4200 sticks,
and so far they've Just Worked. Some observations:
1) I already had an AMD64 Gentoo build installed on one of the drives. I
wasn't sure if the subset of AMD64 that Intel uses would be sufficient to
run the binaries on this system, but once I had built a kernel with the
appropriate drivers, it fired right up.
2) This board uses a Realtek RTL8168 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet chip, which
gentoo-sources-2.6.17-r4 didn't support. Between a flashstick and a
Linksys USB Fast Ethernet dongle, I upgraded to gentoo-sources-2.6.18-r1,
and that works OK with the onboard NIC.
3) Compatibility of the onboard audio with Linux remains untested because
the board didn't ship with a S/PDIF I/O bracket. It seemed to initialize
OK, though, when I had drivers for it set to load.
4) If (like me) you still have lots of PATA devices to connect, you're
going to lose at least one PCI slot to a controller for them...unless
you're willing to spend $25 or so per drive for converters to plug them
in to SATA ports.
5) The BIOS on this board only knows how to talk to one floppy drive...guess
the 5.25" drive needs to go into another machine now.
6) This board does NOT have the reputedly troublesome JMicro SATA (?)
controller on it.
So far, so good. I'm rebuilding all of the binaries on the machine as I
write this, to make sure there's no 3DNow! code lurking somewhere.
Here's what lspci looks like:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 945G/P Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 945G/P PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 02)
0000:00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
0000:00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controllers cc=IDE (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 01df (rev a1)
0000:03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 8168 (rev 01)
0000:04:00.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20269 (rev 02)
0000:04:01.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
0000:04:02.0 PCI bridge: Texas Instruments PCI2250 PCI-to-PCI Bridge (rev 02)
0000:05:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW323 (rev 04)
0000:05:01.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41)
0000:05:01.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41)
0000:05:01.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 02)
The video card is a 7300GS. The PCI slots are currently filled with a
Promise IDE controller (the boot drives and DVD burner are connected through
it), a Turtle Beach Riviera (until I get a S/PDIF bracket, and maybe even
after, since it has a joystick port), and a USB 2.0/FireWire combo card
(since there's no FireWire on this motherboard).
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Thanks. The ABit AB9 Pro also uses the Realtek Ethernet controller so
it's good to know that the 2.6.18 kernel supports it.
Has anyone used the Intel BOXDG965WHMKR? It has an Intel ethernet
controller and onboard graphics>
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