Re: ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard: comments?
Hendrik Tews wrote: Dear all, does anybody have experiences with the ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard or its Deluxe variant? Does Debian run out of the box on it? I have a A8N-SLI. I had intermittent problem with the nvidia ethernet module. The forcedeth module stopped working and even rebooting the computer was not solving the problem. Very nasty. Upgrading the bios (which is a pain, if you don't have Windows installed) seems to have solved the problem. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard: comments?
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 02:40:38PM +0200, Charles de Miramon wrote: I have a A8N-SLI. I had intermittent problem with the nvidia ethernet module. The forcedeth module stopped working and even rebooting the computer was not solving the problem. Very nasty. Upgrading the bios (which is a pain, if you don't have Windows installed) seems to have solved the problem. I thought you just put the .bin bios file on a floppy or cd and hit alt+f2 at the bios. Or does that not work on the A8N series boards (I am used to A7N series still). Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard: comments?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 02:40:38PM +0200, Charles de Miramon wrote: I have a A8N-SLI. I had intermittent problem with the nvidia ethernet module. The forcedeth module stopped working and even rebooting the computer was not solving the problem. Very nasty. Upgrading the bios (which is a pain, if you don't have Windows installed) seems to have solved the problem. I thought you just put the .bin bios file on a floppy or cd and hit alt+f2 at the bios. Or does that not work on the A8N series boards (I am used to A7N series still). That works like a charm, IF you've got floppy-drive :-) And the board works here in 10 PCs flawless with debian sarge (and a newer kernel). Oh, and indeed, one board was changed because one of the NIC was dead after some nasty power problems here. Len Sorensen MfG, Lars Schimmer - -- - - TU Graz, Institut für ComputerGraphik WissensVisualisierung Tel: +43 316 873-5405 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +43 316 873-5402 PGP-Key-ID: 0x4A9B1723 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEMn69mWhuE0qbFyMRAhKMAJoCjC0Ef5QEicLvxmx1kkUvMowjwgCfY/+J f1+nA+EKdCUf+YDN4L+eLzc= =VWnE -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard: comments?
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 04:12:13PM +0200, Lars Schimmer wrote: That works like a charm, IF you've got floppy-drive :-) And the board works here in 10 PCs flawless with debian sarge (and a newer kernel). Thing is I thought it also worked from CD. Oh, and indeed, one board was changed because one of the NIC was dead after some nasty power problems here. Ouch! Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard: comments?
Lennart Sorensen wrote: I thought you just put the .bin bios file on a floppy or cd and hit alt+f2 at the bios. Or does that not work on the A8N series boards (I am used to A7N series still). Yes. It may work but you have to nam ethe .bin file the right way and you have very few options. Alternatively, you have to burn a UltimateBoot CD and a second CD with the Bios file and the Dos based bios upgrading application from the Asus Website. UltimateBoot let you boot in DrDos than you switch CD and upgrade your Bios. In Windows, you have a nice little application Asus Update that downlaod the stuff and upgrade automatically. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard: comments?
Hi
maybe I'm the only one having a lot of stability problems. My computer get
crashes about 2 times/day when using it for Desktop. I have discovered
several problems when running in server mode.
I'm running a model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor
4200+ with 4 GB RAM, a 6600GT NVidia. The main board is the ASUS A8N-SLI
Deluxe edition.
My dmesg output is always filled with Oops and segmentation faults.
I have tested every kernel from 2.6.8. No way.
In 32 bits mode it works perfectly, without any kind of failure.
Problems occur with either GPL and non-GPL nvidia graphic driver.
The only special device I have it's a BT878 card.
:05:06.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video
Capture (rev 11)
:05:06.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture
(rev 11)
BR Good Luck
Francisco Gimeno
Dear all,
does anybody have experiences with the ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard
or its Deluxe variant? Does Debian run out of the box on it?
What motherboards do people use or recomment for an AMD dual core
Athlon (Athlon 64 X2)?
Thanks in advance,
Hendrik Tews
OOPS examples:
-
Unable to handle kernel paging request at 4ce68944 RIP:
8016cc8a{vfs_read+300}
PGD 127ba8067 PUD 1209df067 PMD 0
Oops: 0002 [1] SMP
CPU 1
Modules linked in: nvidia xt_tcpudp iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables
binfmt_misc button ac battery ipv6 xfrm_user xfrm4_tunnel ipcomp esp4 ah4
deflate zlib_deflate twofish serpent aes blowfish des sha256 sha1 crypto_null
af_key sk98lin md_mod dm_mod it87 hwmon_vid eeprom i2c_isa sr_mod sbp2
ide_generic bt878 tuner tvaudio snd_intel8x0 msp3400 snd_ac97_codec
snd_ac97_bus bttv video_buf firmware_class compat_ioctl32 snd_bt87x
snd_mpu401 i2c_algo_bit snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_mpu401_uart v4l2_common
analog psmouse snd_pcm i2c_nforce2 snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device btcx_risc
ir_common snd_timer snd_page_alloc parport_pc parport snd serio_raw soundcore
eth1394 tveeprom i2c_core videodev gameport pcspkr evdev ext3 jbd mbcache
ide_cd cdrom ide_disk sd_mod sata_nv skge sata_sil libata ohci1394 ieee1394
scsi_mod forcedeth generic amd74xx ide_core ehci_hcd ohci_hcd thermal
processor fan
Pid: 7873, comm: artsd Tainted: P 2.6.16-1-amd64-k8-smp #2
RIP: 0010:[8016cc8a] 8016cc8a{vfs_read+300}
RSP: 0018:810127b99f18 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 81013e7da950 RBX: 81013fbe33c0 RCX:
RDX: RSI: 0001 RDI: 81013e7da758
RBP: 0020 R08: 0001 R09: 8101315ab8c0
R10: R11: 0202 R12: 0001
R13: 81013dee4a78 R14: 0020 R15: 7fbf5930
FS: 2b9eb58b1e50() GS:81013fc909c0() knlGS:f6a67bb0
CS: 0010 DS: ES: CR0: 80050033
CR2: 4ce68944 CR3: 000127b55000 CR4: 06e0
Process artsd (pid: 7873, threadinfo 810127b98000, task 81013f6c20c0)
Stack: 8101315ab8c0 0020 fff7 7fbf5880
0059ed60 8016d686
44318c87 005a0c00
Call Trace: 8016d686{sys_read+69}
8010a846{system_call+126}
Code: 31 d2 44 89 e6 4c 89 ef e8 b8 32 02 00 65 48 8b 04 25 00 00
RIP 8016cc8a{vfs_read+300} RSP 810127b99f18
CR2: 4ce68944
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Re: ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard: comments?
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 08:40:24PM +0200, Francisco Gimeno wrote:
maybe I'm the only one having a lot of stability problems. My computer get
crashes about 2 times/day when using it for Desktop. I have discovered
several problems when running in server mode.
I'm running a model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor
4200+ with 4 GB RAM, a 6600GT NVidia. The main board is the ASUS A8N-SLI
Deluxe edition.
My dmesg output is always filled with Oops and segmentation faults.
I have tested every kernel from 2.6.8. No way.
In 32 bits mode it works perfectly, without any kind of failure.
Problems occur with either GPL and non-GPL nvidia graphic driver.
The only special device I have it's a BT878 card.
:05:06.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video
Capture (rev 11)
:05:06.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture
(rev 11)
Overloaded or crappy power supply? Low quality ram?
OOPS examples:
-
Unable to handle kernel paging request at 4ce68944 RIP:
8016cc8a{vfs_read+300}
PGD 127ba8067 PUD 1209df067 PMD 0
Oops: 0002 [1] SMP
CPU 1
Modules linked in: nvidia xt_tcpudp iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables
binfmt_misc button ac battery ipv6 xfrm_user xfrm4_tunnel ipcomp esp4 ah4
deflate zlib_deflate twofish serpent aes blowfish des sha256 sha1 crypto_null
af_key sk98lin md_mod dm_mod it87 hwmon_vid eeprom i2c_isa sr_mod sbp2
ide_generic bt878 tuner tvaudio snd_intel8x0 msp3400 snd_ac97_codec
snd_ac97_bus bttv video_buf firmware_class compat_ioctl32 snd_bt87x
snd_mpu401 i2c_algo_bit snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_mpu401_uart v4l2_common
analog psmouse snd_pcm i2c_nforce2 snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device btcx_risc
ir_common snd_timer snd_page_alloc parport_pc parport snd serio_raw soundcore
eth1394 tveeprom i2c_core videodev gameport pcspkr evdev ext3 jbd mbcache
ide_cd cdrom ide_disk sd_mod sata_nv skge sata_sil libata ohci1394 ieee1394
scsi_mod forcedeth generic amd74xx ide_core ehci_hcd ohci_hcd thermal
processor fan
Pid: 7873, comm: artsd Tainted: P 2.6.16-1-amd64-k8-smp #2
RIP: 0010:[8016cc8a] 8016cc8a{vfs_read+300}
RSP: 0018:810127b99f18 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 81013e7da950 RBX: 81013fbe33c0 RCX:
RDX: RSI: 0001 RDI: 81013e7da758
RBP: 0020 R08: 0001 R09: 8101315ab8c0
R10: R11: 0202 R12: 0001
R13: 81013dee4a78 R14: 0020 R15: 7fbf5930
FS: 2b9eb58b1e50() GS:81013fc909c0() knlGS:f6a67bb0
CS: 0010 DS: ES: CR0: 80050033
CR2: 4ce68944 CR3: 000127b55000 CR4: 06e0
Process artsd (pid: 7873, threadinfo 810127b98000, task 81013f6c20c0)
Well artsd is related to kde/sound so maybe there is a problem there.
What happens if you don't run kde or disable sound?
Stack: 8101315ab8c0 0020 fff7 7fbf5880
0059ed60 8016d686
44318c87 005a0c00
Call Trace: 8016d686{sys_read+69}
8010a846{system_call+126}
Code: 31 d2 44 89 e6 4c 89 ef e8 b8 32 02 00 65 48 8b 04 25 00 00
RIP 8016cc8a{vfs_read+300} RSP 810127b99f18
CR2: 4ce68944
Len Sorensen
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Re: ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard: comments?
Hi...
Problems occur with either GPL and non-GPL nvidia graphic driver.
The only special device I have it's a BT878 card.
:05:06.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878
Video Capture (rev 11)
:05:06.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio
Capture (rev 11)
Overloaded or crappy power supply? Low quality ram?
how can I know if the power supply is doing it bad ?
RAM is passing perfectly the memtest86+ ( real mode run in grub )
OOPS examples:
-
Unable to handle kernel paging request at 4ce68944 RIP:
8016cc8a{vfs_read+300}
.
.
.
Process artsd (pid: 7873, threadinfo 810127b98000, task
81013f6c20c0)
Well artsd is related to kde/sound so maybe there is a problem there.
What happens if you don't run kde or disable sound?
the process is random...
# cat messages | grep Process | grep pid | awk '{ print $7 }' | sort -u |
wc -l
12
I have detected that running tvtime ( or xawtv ) usually make it hang often.
I don't know if it's because the bt878 v4l driver. As there are several tasks
related ( memory copying from bt878 to tvtime and it to Xfree for
example... ). I'm not using overlay mode, just grabdisplay.
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Re: ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard: comments?
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 09:11:39PM +0200, Francisco Gimeno wrote:
how can I know if the power supply is doing it bad ?
Simplest method: try a different power supply. What brand/model/size is
the power supply? How many drives and how much ram, and what video card
are you running?
RAM is passing perfectly the memtest86+ ( real mode run in grub )
memtest is great, but not perfect. There are things it won't catch. It
is best at consistent failures, rather than intermittant failures.
You could try removing half the ram if you have more than one stick, and
try with that, then try with only the other half of ram installed.
the process is random...
# cat messages | grep Process | grep pid | awk '{ print $7 }' | sort -u |
wc -l
12
I have detected that running tvtime ( or xawtv ) usually make it hang often.
I don't know if it's because the bt878 v4l driver. As there are several tasks
related ( memory copying from bt878 to tvtime and it to Xfree for
example... ). I'm not using overlay mode, just grabdisplay.
Maybe the bt878 driver is buggy, at least on 64bit systems then. It is
a possibility at least.
Len Sorensen
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Re: ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard: comments?
Hi RAM is passing perfectly the memtest86+ ( real mode run in grub ) memtest is great, but not perfect. There are things it won't catch. It is best at consistent failures, rather than intermittant failures. You could try removing half the ram if you have more than one stick, and try with that, then try with only the other half of ram installed. Ok.. I think I'll do that... another think that could be wrong it's the 4GB memory-mapping in the 64bits systems. could anybody confirm that a kernel 2.6.x works well in this motherboard with 4GB installed? Thx Francisco Gimeno pgpe9gFGGLWfb.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard: comments?
From: Francisco Gimeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 10:23:56PM +0200 Hi RAM is passing perfectly the memtest86+ ( real mode run in grub ) memtest is great, but not perfect. There are things it won't catch. It is best at consistent failures, rather than intermittant failures. You could try removing half the ram if you have more than one stick, and try with that, then try with only the other half of ram installed. Ok.. I think I'll do that... another think that could be wrong it's the 4GB memory-mapping in the 64bits systems. could anybody confirm that a kernel 2.6.x works well in this motherboard with 4GB installed? Mine works fine, with 4 Gb (4x 1 Gb officially supported Kingston PC3200 ram). Even with an overclocked CPU. dmesg: Bootdata ok (command line is root=/dev/md2 video=nvidiafb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] atkbd.softrepeat=1) Linux version 2.6.16-mm2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.0.3 (Debian 4.0.3-1)) #1 Fri Mar 31 17:04:03 CEST 2006 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: - 0009c800 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0009c800 - 000a (reserved) BIOS-e820: 000f - 0010 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0010 - bfff (usable) BIOS-e820: bfff - bfff3000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: bfff3000 - c000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: e000 - f000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: fec0 - 0001 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0001 - 00014000 (usable) DMI 2.3 present. ACPI: RSDP (v000 Nvidia) @ 0x000f7d30 ACPI: RSDT (v001 Nvidia AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x) @ 0xbfff3040 ACPI: FADT (v001 Nvidia AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x) @ 0xbfff30c0 ACPI: SRAT (v001 AMDHAMMER 0x0001 AMD 0x0001) @ 0xbfff9900 ACPI: MCFG (v001 Nvidia AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x) @ 0xbfff9a00 ACPI: MADT (v001 Nvidia AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x) @ 0xbfff9840 ACPI: DSDT (v001 NVIDIA AWRDACPI 0x1000 MSFT 0x010e) @ 0x On node 0 totalpages: 1028750 DMA zone: 2150 pages, LIFO batch:0 DMA32 zone: 768040 pages, LIFO batch:31 Normal zone: 258560 pages, LIFO batch:31 Nvidia board detected. Ignoring ACPI timer override. ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x4008 ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee0 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) Processor #0 15:7 APIC version 16 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] disabled) ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1]) ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1]) ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec0] gsi_base[0]) IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 17, address 0xfec0, GSI 0-23 ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl) ACPI: BIOS IRQ0 pin2 override ignored. ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level) ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 14 global_irq 14 high edge) ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 15 global_irq 15 high edge) ACPI: IRQ9 used by override. ACPI: IRQ14 used by override. ACPI: IRQ15 used by override. Setting APIC routing to flat Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information Allocating PCI resources starting at c200 (gap: c000:2000) Checking aperture... CPU 0: aperture @ 5200 size 32 MB Aperture from northbridge cpu 0 too small (32 MB) No AGP bridge found Your BIOS doesn't leave a aperture memory hole Please enable the IOMMU option in the BIOS setup This costs you 64 MB of RAM Mapping aperture over 65536 KB of RAM @ 800 Built 1 zonelists Kernel command line: root=/dev/md2 video=nvidiafb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] atkbd.softrepeat=1 Initializing CPU#0 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes) time.c: Using 3.579545 MHz WALL PM GTOD PIT/TSC timer. time.c: Detected 2750.027 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 524288 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes) Memory: 4042620k/5242880k available (3863k kernel code, 150648k reserved, 2313k data, 228k init) Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5503.34 BogoMIPS (lpj=11006694) Mount-cache hash table entries: 256 CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 1024K (64 bytes/line) CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3700+ stepping 01 Using local APIC timer interrupts. result 15625158 Detected 15.625 MHz APIC timer. time.c: Lost 9 timer tick(s)! rip 10:setup_boot_APIC_clock+0x156/0x160 last clier setup_boot_APIC_clock+0x45/0x160 caller APIC_init_uniprocessor+0x10f/0x120 testing NMI watchdog ... OK. NET: Registered protocol family 16 ACPI: bus type pci registered PCI: Using MMCONFIG at e000 ACPI: Subsystem revision 20060210 ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (:00) PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) PCI: Transparent bridge - :00:09.0 Boot
Re: ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard: comments?
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 05:53:39PM +0200, Charles de Miramon wrote: Yes. It may work but you have to nam ethe .bin file the right way and you have very few options. Alternatively, you have to burn a UltimateBoot CD and a second CD with the Bios file and the Dos based bios upgrading application from the Asus Website. There is way to do it with one CD, if there's a DOS BIOS upgrader. Just get a DOS floppy image, modify it to add the BIOS updater and update, and use that image to make a bootable CD. I've done this a couple of times, though not with linux tools admittedly. No reason why it shouldn't work though. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hendrik Tews a écrit : Dear all, does anybody have experiences with the ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard or its Deluxe variant? Does Debian run out of the box on it? I have an A8N-SLI Premium, Sarge NetInstall CD ran out of the box :-). On this motherboard, there's a Venice 3500+, and a nVidia 6600 GT video from Leadtek. This last one works fine with nVidia provided drivers :-). What motherboards do people use or recomment for an AMD dual core Athlon (Athlon 64 X2)? hmmm, let me see... I would recommend A8N-SLI Premium of course :-). This one have a heatpipe to cool the northbridge insted of a fan. I've heard that some models of Gigabyte also have a heatpipe. Philippe. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard: comments?
Pete Klemm wrote: A. E. Lawrence is correct on the disk enumeration issue. I am running 2.6.12-686-smp with udev 0.87-1 and the disk enumeration is quite flaky as some times it boots properly and other times not. udev also has a problem with my Radeon 7000VE in that I did have a few problems with disc enumeration order differing between install and sarge, but this was on a fairly complex system with 4 SATA drives, a couple of genuine scsi drives and a legacy PATA (ie IDE) drive. The grub menu written by the installer tried to boot from the wrong disc (because of said enumeration difference), so I used a grub floppy and edited the entries on the first boot, and then changed them permanently. I should have mentioned in my earlier reply that I think I also had to correct /etc/fstab which was also written incorrectly by the installer. I may also have had to correct other configuration files, but it is a long time ago now. Not difficult once you realize what is going on, but it would be very tough for anyone new to Linux to sort out and you definitely have to think about how to get a bootable system. I think that I needed to mount the target file system with a rescue disc in order to fix /etc/fstab. But as several people have said, there should not be a problem with a single disc. ael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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A E Lawrence wrote: Pete Klemm wrote: A. E. Lawrence is correct on the disk enumeration issue. I am running 2.6.12-686-smp with udev 0.87-1 and the disk enumeration is quite flaky as some times it boots properly and other times not. udev also has a problem with my Radeon 7000VE in that I did have a few problems with disc enumeration order differing between install and sarge, but this was on a fairly complex system with 4 SATA drives, a couple of genuine scsi drives and a legacy PATA (ie IDE) drive. The grub menu written by the installer tried to boot from the wrong disc (because of said enumeration difference), so I used a grub floppy and edited the entries on the first boot, and then changed them permanently. I should have mentioned in my earlier reply that I think I also had to correct /etc/fstab which was also written incorrectly by the installer. I may also have had to correct other configuration files, but it is a long time ago now. Not difficult once you realize what is going on, but it would be very tough for anyone new to Linux to sort out and you definitely have to think about how to get a bootable system. I think that I needed to mount the target file system with a rescue disc in order to fix /etc/fstab. But as several people have said, there should not be a problem with a single disc. ael I have done 2 netinstall around chrismass time, one sarge and one etch, on 2 boxes with asus A8N-sli MB and one sata hd. Using expert mode for stable, regular mode for testing. Both went smoothly. I had to use expert mode on stable to get the ethernet working. Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hendrik Tews wrote: Dear all, does anybody have experiences with the ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard or its Deluxe variant? Does Debian run out of the box on it? What motherboards do people use or recomment for an AMD dual core Athlon (Athlon 64 X2)? Thanks in advance, Hendrik Tews You probably need a non-Sarge installer for nForce4 - be it Len's 2.6.12 installer, Kenshi's 2.6.15, or an Etch daily image. Try Via K8T890 for something that just works with Sarge (that said, you want a newer-than-sarge kernel to properly use dual core anyway) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hello Hendrik does anybody have experiences with the ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard or its Deluxe variant? Does Debian run out of the box on it? I have a ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe with SATA drives. For installing I have used the Sarge-Install-DVDs (2 pieces) and it worked without problems. The drives are at the nvidia sata controller. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hendrik Tews wrote: Dear all, does anybody have experiences with the ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard or its Deluxe variant? Does Debian run out of the box on it? I did have a few problems with disc enumeration order differing between install and sarge, but this was on a fairly complex system with 4 SATA drives, a couple of genuine scsi drives and a legacy PATA (ie IDE) drive. The grub menu written by the installer tried to boot from the wrong disc (because of said enumeration difference), so I used a grub floppy and edited the entries on the first boot, and then changed them permanently. Most people with simpler systems have no problems. Unless my memory is failing, Jo is not right in recommending the Via K8T890: it is a Nvidia nforce4 chipset. Maybe Len's 2.6.12 installer might get around the problems that I saw: I expect that the disc enumeration will match. ael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard: comments?
I have a ASUS A8N-SLI Premium, with 2 300Gig as RAID-1 on the Silicon Image 3114, SATA controller a 74G Raptor SATA on the nVidia SATA and 250G ATA on IDE Primary master. A. E. Lawrence is correct on the disk enumeration issue. I am running 2.6.12-686-smp with udev 0.87-1 and the disk enumeration is quite flaky as some times it boots properly and other times not. udev also has a problem with my Radeon 7000VE in that it does not create the frame buffer devices. It also had problems with the Marvel Yukon 1G ethernet net interface until I disabled it from BIOS. So for now I am running 2.6.12-386 with an older udev. If anyone else is having similar issues with the ASUS A8N-SLI Premium, I'd be willing to work together on getting these issues resolved. I am new to 'udev' and do not have a great understanding of what is due my ignorance or to bugs. Pete A E Lawrence wrote: Hendrik Tews wrote: Dear all, does anybody have experiences with the ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard or its Deluxe variant? Does Debian run out of the box on it? I did have a few problems with disc enumeration order differing between install and sarge, but this was on a fairly complex system with 4 SATA drives, a couple of genuine scsi drives and a legacy PATA (ie IDE) drive. The grub menu written by the installer tried to boot from the wrong disc (because of said enumeration difference), so I used a grub floppy and edited the entries on the first boot, and then changed them permanently. Most people with simpler systems have no problems. Unless my memory is failing, Jo is not right in recommending the Via K8T890: it is a Nvidia nforce4 chipset. Maybe Len's 2.6.12 installer might get around the problems that I saw: I expect that the disc enumeration will match. ael -- _ ___ Pete Klemm Embedded Systems Research,INC / __/ __/ _ \ 2604 San Mateo Dr. Software Consultant / _/_\ \/ , _/ Plainfield, IL 60586 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] /___/___/_/|_| Voice: 815-436-4328 http://www.esysr.com Cell: 815-483-3472 Fax: 815-436-4328 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hendrik Tews wrote: does anybody have experiences with the ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard or its Deluxe variant? Does Debian run out of the box on it? Running AMD64 sid on the Deluxe for 6 months, haven't had a single problem (installed with netinst). It's dual-booting with Windows (32bit), where I have had also no issues. Only one SATA drive though. -- Nelson Menezes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
