Re: Another "What Motherboard Should I Buy" question


Abit may not support Linux, but Linux, later kernels at least, does
support uGuru.

Not very well. I'm running a 2.6.20 kernel and I've loaded the abituguru
module. I can read voltages but not temperatures. My advice to anyone
building a Linux system is to stay away from Abit. Abit does other bad
things. They slightly overclock their boards so they can win benchmarks,
if you want to run at the rated speed you have to change the clock speed
in the BIOS. This wouldn't be so bad except for the fact that it screws
up Linux's ability to read the clock speed. If the clock isn't set back
to the rated speed. When the clock is set to anything else
sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies reports
1000000 800000 600000

instead of the real frequencies.

I also wasn't able to use the OnDemand speed governor with the 2.6.19
kernel. If I used it the system was unstable. I've been using the
Performance speed governor which doesn't allow speed changes, it's stable
when that governor is used. I haven't tried OnDemand with 2.6.20 so I
don't know if it's been fixed.
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