On Sunday 14 December 2003 03:04 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > >>I just got an Asus A7V600. It works nicely with 9.2, > > >> though only three of my five speakers work with onboard > > >> sound. What the hell, my sound card should be arriving on > > >> Wednesday, so I can have fun wrestling with that instead > > >> ;-) > > >> > > >>Sir Robin > > > > > > That's not on the TWiki page either, Sir Robin! Consider > > > your hand slapped <g> > > > > [rubs hand] > > OK, it's up there. > > Seen it, thanks. We'll get that list to a really usable size > before long. > > Anne
I'm just gonna reiterate some previous cautions I've mentioned about TWiki (for which I'm probly still in the doghouse). First of all the intention and effort is laudable. It will only continue as such if it's totally constantly maintained and changed. It has no advice (opinions) contained that are carved in stone. It should prominently mention that the suggestions contained in various parts, are just that suggestions, opinions, ie, 'worked for me' and 'YMMV'. Not giving the impression of real world real time solutions. One of the reasons MandrakeUser became ineffectual and in many parts wrong and dated. For hardware, well idiots like me know that's a changing deal, month to month. Case in point, I suspect Robin might'a got an AV7600 due to my referrences to it on the OT_her list. With latest 2.4.23 kernel's the board needs 'nolapic' passed to it to avoid kernel panics, specially under a load like sound or video encoding/decoding. A board difficiency or a need for the new kernel to mature more? To state either would be just an opinion. The board is great for 9.2 an early 10.0, but will it still be good for 10.0 final? Can prior kernel releases function with it? I've all but completely eliminated panics by moderating ram timings, increasing Vcore and IO voltages a touch, and using 2.4.23 kernel versions cautiously. Could be try'n to change PCI slots I use for the one card in the system. Point is, variables, and the permutations are a real problem. Then add in users. Before I got an AV7600 I researched it's components. I didn't use twiki's or hardware sites. I use Google and mailing list archives. Particularly the current linux-kernel ml (lkml). The study requires searching by components. Searching by mobo model number is mostly useless. For example, the integrated NIC is very new to market, 3c940. It has a 3com/Asus Linux driver for it, that doesn't work with (compile against) newer kernels. NBD for me, I had an old D-link card sittin around, and the onboard 3c is easily disasabled in bios. Similar deal with the integrated sound. The (separate, not part of the VIA south bridge chipset) is an Analog Devices Inc. ADI-1980, AC97 codec compliant. Fortunately, the VIA driver in current kernels works for this chip. For me, and my speaker system. It's a 6-channel sound device, that as Robin seems to have found, doesn't support more than 2 chl. for his use. Works for me, not for him. Variables. Nothin on the board is of any other particular interest, other than the KT600 chipset with 400Mhz cpu support. Since this isn't really new to the Linux kernel, VIA chipset support is almost a sure thing goin in. A read of lkml would probly be more discouraging for any other chipset vendor, specially nForce*. Well there are also SATA ports, but anybody who's a bit savy would know to avoid SATA anyhow, any OS. Does an opinion like that reflect TWiki 'documentation'? I think not but Google or lkml will lead you too it. Now these motherboard, hardware and such are particulars, and involve opinion. The info doesn't belong in a TWiki, and probly won't be valid longer than next month. Same deal with applications and configuration. How to do it in the X.1 version is completely wrong for X.11. Google and the lkml are by nature not as susceptible to such degeneration. Opinons are always inescapable. So IMO, TWiki should prominenty be displayed as "At the current time, this is a best guess from various contributors, mostly gathered from mailing lists. It is not supported or endorsed by anyone. Use at your own risk." -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
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