Re: [ilugd] Motherboard that supports Linux on Desktop with I5, I7 CPU

2011-11-20 Thread Rishab Arora
I've been running an ASUS P8P67 Pro with an i5 2500K with Ubuntu 11.10. HTH. I've had a lot more issues due to my Radeon card than the mobo, Everything ran out of the box. But you will definitely find yourself irritated with the fact that only Windows is able to harness everything. For instance,

Re: [ilugd] Motherboard that supports Linux on Desktop with I5, I7 CPU

2011-11-20 Thread Sanjay Arora
I bought a dh67bl with i7, for use with centos 6. Ultimately had to install fedora 15, as rhel is not yet supporting Intel Sandybridge architecture. Turns out, if you are putting in a separate graphics card, Linux will work very well on this board...however, if you propose to use onboard graphics

Re: [ilugd] Motherboard that supports Linux on Desktop with I5, I7 CPU

2011-11-20 Thread chandrakant kumar
Drivers are the part of kernel not the distro. As per my knowledge all distros use same kernel with some custom patches. If you want support for latest hardware, download the latest kernel source from kernel.org and compile it. On 11/20/11, Sanjay Arora sanjay.k.ar...@gmail.com wrote: I bought a

Re: [ilugd] Motherboard that supports Linux on Desktop with I5, I7 CPU

2011-11-20 Thread Sanjay Arora
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 9:51 PM, chandrakant kumar k.03chan...@gmail.comwrote: Drivers are the part of kernel not the distro. As per my knowledge all distros use same kernel with some custom patches. If you want support for latest hardware, download the latest kernel source from kernel.org

Re: [ilugd] Motherboard that supports Linux on Desktop with I5, I7 CPU

2011-11-20 Thread chandrakant kumar
Most of these distros are binary based, i.e., they are compiled for generic hardware. They detect the hardware and load the appropriate driver modules. what i am trying to say is, between the time their kernel was compiled and now, drivers for newer hardware may have been written and to use those

Re: [ilugd] Motherboard that supports Linux on Desktop with I5, I7 CPU

2011-11-20 Thread A. Mani
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Sudhir Gandotra sudhirgando...@gmail.com wrote: Which hardware ? No vendor is giving a board with assurance that Linux runs on their board/s. If I but without that assurance, and it does not work, the board becomes a costly paper-weight for me. Vendors have

Re: [ilugd] Motherboard that supports Linux on Desktop with I5, I7 CPU

2011-11-20 Thread Sudhir Gandotra
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 8:21 AM, A. Mani a.mani@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Sudhir Gandotra sudhirgando...@gmail.com wrote: Which hardware ? No vendor is giving a board with assurance that Linux runs on their board/s. If I but without that assurance, and it

Re: [ilugd] Motherboard that supports Linux on Desktop with I5, I7 CPU

2011-11-19 Thread chandrakant kumar
I don't think that is the case, may be you are running older version of kernel. On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Sudhir Gandotra sudhirgando...@gmail.comwrote: Hello List, It is increasing becoming difficult to find a mother-board that supports Linux (CentOS 6, Fedora 15, Ubuntu 11) with

Re: [ilugd] Motherboard that supports Linux on Desktop with I5, I7 CPU

2011-11-19 Thread Sudhir Gandotra
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 1:41 PM, chandrakant kumar k.03chan...@gmail.comwrote: I don't think that is the case, may be you are running older version of kernel. I think I have clearly mentioned that I want to run : Linux (CentOS 6, Fedora 15, Ubuntu 11 so, that rules out talking of older

Re: [ilugd] Motherboard that supports Linux on Desktop with I5, I7 CPU

2011-11-19 Thread chandrakant kumar
Have you actually tried running any of these distros on hardware you are talking about?If yes, what is the error message? On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Sudhir Gandotra sudhirgando...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 1:41 PM, chandrakant kumar k.03chan...@gmail.comwrote: I don't

Re: [ilugd] Motherboard that supports Linux on Desktop with I5, I7 CPU

2011-11-19 Thread Sudhir Gandotra
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 5:34 PM, chandrakant kumar k.03chan...@gmail.comwrote: Have you actually tried running any of these distros on hardware you are talking about?If yes, what is the error message? Which hardware ? No vendor is giving a board with assurance that Linux runs on their

[ilugd] Motherboard that supports Linux on Desktop with I5, I7 CPU

2011-11-18 Thread Sudhir Gandotra
Hello List, It is increasing becoming difficult to find a mother-board that supports Linux (CentOS 6, Fedora 15, Ubuntu 11) with Intel's I3, I5 and I7 CPUs. Probably I am missing something. Any pointers in the right direction please ? -- *Wish you an era of Realization Mobilization* Peace,

Re: [ilugd] Motherboard that supports Linux on Desktop with I5, I7 CPU

2011-11-18 Thread Ashish SHUKLA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Sudhir Gandotra writes: Hello List, It is increasing becoming difficult to find a mother-board that supports Linux (CentOS 6, Fedora 15, Ubuntu 11) with Intel's I3, I5 and I7 CPUs. I'm using Intel DX58SO[1] with Intel i7 CPU since last year