[ILUG] motherboard question

[John Allen]

On Friday 30 January 2004 20:45, Adrian P. Ireland wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 10:10:24AM -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
> > Quoting Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions
> > (michele at blacknightsolutions.com):
> >
> > [440BX motherboard chipset:]
> >
> > > How about getting linux to work with it? Is it supported?
> >
> > Yes.  No problems whatsoever.
>
> I have no problems with a PIII 500 MHz using the 440BX chipset. It is
> very stable. I enabled the stuff in the kernel which increased the hard
> disk access speeds.
>
> I have had some stability problems on an Asus A7N8X revision 2 and there
> have been some posts in the news groups about it. Things seemed to work
> better with kernel 2.4.22 an before as far as I remember but the

I have an Abit NF7 v2.0 board and it is as unstable as hell unless I boot with
"noapic nolapic noioapic acpi=ht mem=nopentium"

I also have some NF7-S v1.2 boards and they do not require those parameters.

There are fixes being worked on for 2.4.x, and 2.6.x for nForce based boards 
with newer revs of the chips.

> problems seemed to start when I moved to 2.4.23-pre8 and persist with
> 2.6.1.
>
> I seem to get a crash about 3 am or so when I am running some cron
> scripts that do alot of hard disk access. The cron job does not delete
> anything etc. No messages in the log files that look in any way strange.
> Thank goodness for ext3, no problems rebooting, but I keep a regular
> backup and sync the disks before I leave the box.
>
> Sometimes if I load the newer usb drivers
> ehci-hcd.ko
> ohci-hcd.ko
> There seems to be some sort of disagreement with the rest of the system.
> And I am more prone to a lock up.
>
> Someone has posted about not using ohci-hcd and using the other driver
> ?uhci-hcd.ko but you cant apparantly use flash usbpens with that.
>
> Anyhow even without any usb modules loaded my system will crash about 3
> am or so. This happens in the console and X. In X you can still see the
> display but the clock etc has stopped and no response to network
> connections etc. The yellow IDE light is often on when you come to check
> the system in the am and the box is locked.
>
> From comp.os.linux.help yesterday
>
> :::For those of your who just purchased an ASUS A78NX-X motherboard
> :::and have tried to run Linux on it and have been experiencing
> :::frequent lockups with heavy hard disk I/O, I've set up a website
> :::to address this problem:
> :::
> :::http://piff.freshpull.com/asus_linux.html
>
> nvidia have released some drivers for linux for the chipset on the
> motherboard but I have not tried those.
>
> My system may have a hardware problem too. So the board may be perfect,
> but since the OP was asking about asus boards I thought I would offer my
> experience.
>
> I am thinking of going back to an earlier kernel but am still playing
> around to see if I can get a usb 2.0 device to work.
>
> Adrian

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John Allen,                          Email:  mailto:john.allen at dublinux.net
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