Re: Is anyone completely happy with their Core2 motherboard?
- From: Mungo <reallydontmail@xxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 04:54:16 GMT
General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:pan.2007.06.29.21.50.35@xxxxxxxxx:
Is anyone completely happy with their Core2 motherboard? I'm looking
for a board where there are no install issues, LM sensors works,
usermode and ondemand speed governors work, and the Ethernet is fully
supported.
RH-Server-5 and Centos-5 run nicely on the Asus P5B Deluxe. I reported the
following a couple of months ago and it remains valid:
Red Hat 5 Server seems to have fixed all the other problems we saw withthe
old RHES 4.4 kernel. However, to get all the information out oflm_sensors
ON THE 64 BIT ARCHITECTURE you need to:rpm
1. Install lm_sensors 2.10.2 or 2.10.3. Build from source
available from the Fedora 7 (devel) repositories or from tarball from thehave
lm_sensors site. The default 2.10.1 shipped with RH and almost all other
distros won't work with the w83627dhg chip on the board. Make sure you
sysfs working first.it as
2. Grab a current updated copy of w83627ehf.c and build
a kernel module. There are a couple of copies floating around, one at:P5B
http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/drivers/hwmon/w83627ehf.c?v=linux-2.6
(Comment out the "include lm75.h" line in the code before compiling.)
Install it, depmod, the modprobe it. Be sure the lm78 module is rmmod'ed
before installing the new driver.
3. Sensors.conf data for the w83627dhg is wrong for the
Deluxe. The correct offsets and descriptions are in:December/018555.html
http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2006-
running
The above applies to any board using the w83627dhg chip. If you are
the 2.6.21 kernel then the correct driver module is already be in theneed
kernel package and installing the latest lm_sensors should be all you
to do.
I use "low end" Nvidia graphics cards and have installed VMware with
Microsoft guest OS'es. Both have to be reconfigured whenever the kernel is
updated ( there are ways around the NVidia recompile, but I feel better
safe than sorry) . Other that that, the performance has been effortless.
Note that the RHEL-4 distro never had a jmicron PATA driver and I do not
think that there is one in RH-Server-5. We use SATA DVD's and SATA Hard
Drives which work swimmingly with the board and with Linux so we never had
to deal with the Jmicron issue. An IDE PCI card should address the need if
for any reason a PATA drive is required. YMMV.
Performance has also been near flawless. The P5B-Deluxe is one of the few
boards which allow fairly easy overclocking of the Core 2 chips. Cheap
overclocked E-6400's ( I can hear the Intel guys shuddering right now )
haven't burned up or even gotten too warm on the boards. That despite
running rewritten analytic programs which would decide to take off with
100% of both CPU's and stay there for embarrassingly long periods of time
until rescued by human intervention. We are yet to see what they do during
the inevitable Annual Air Condtioning Failure sometime this summer.
regards,
mungo
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