From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755644AbYIPPNz (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:13:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753554AbYIPPNr (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:13:47 -0400 Received: from Mycroft.westnet.com ([216.187.52.7]:60042 "EHLO Mycroft.westnet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752916AbYIPPNr (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:13:47 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1085 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:13:46 EDT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18639.51433.628856.335547@stoffel.org> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:55:37 -0400 From: "John Stoffel" To: "Jacek Poplawski" Cc: "John Stoffel" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: motherboard recommendations? In-Reply-To: <1f276abf0809160739r6e2f42b3j8941730136365fb9@mail.gmail.com> References: <1f276abf0809160657x4264ad5dm74fd2689d804a7ad@mail.gmail.com> <18639.49959.895003.593644@stoffel.org> <1f276abf0809160739r6e2f42b3j8941730136365fb9@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: VM 8.0.9 under Emacs 22.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jacek> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 4:31 PM, John Stoffel wrote: >> Which ASUS board, the K8V? If so, just look for a board with >> components that are known to work well with Linux. Honestly, these >> days Linux supports alot more stuff right out of the box. Jacek> I was thinking the same few years ago, but on two Asus boards Jacek> two had problems. K8V-X SE is the board I have now, it's very Jacek> bad choice for Linux, it crashes very often when starting X Jacek> (with DRI) - it's related to buggy BIOS and AGP. Sure, I can understand your frustration here. I'd be pissed too. :] I spent a bunch of time looking at motherboards and finally settled on the one I got because of good reports. Don't get a recent board, get something that's been out for six months to a year with good reviews on newegg.com to make sure you don't get bitten by stuff like this. Jacek> On another board SATA was supported after few months and there Jacek> was constant problem with network (there was long discussion Jacek> about it on LKML) - networking was working after boot but stops Jacek> working after a while. It was never fixed, so I don't use this Jacek> board anymore. Gotta say my M2N32-SLI Deluxe has been working just fine from day one. Can't complain at all. So much so that I'm thinking of getting another to be my new file server system, but money is tight right now. :]