Asus M2N68-VM Motherboard

Stefan Patric not@thisaddress.com Sunday 13 Dec 2009 21:45 wrote:
Vlad_Inhaler andrew.williams@t-online.de Monday 14 Dec 2009 07:41 wrote:

Thank you both for your kind replies.
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Stefan Patric not@thisaddress.com Sunday 13 Dec 2009 21:45 wrote:

Have you contacted Slackware about the problem and any solutions?  That
would have been the first place I would have gone to.  But it does sound
strange.  I just upgraded to Fedora 12 on my 64-bit system that has
around a 4 year old Abit MB with onboard LAN and sound.  Never had any
hardware issues, and I started on it with Fedora Core 6.

Could be you only need to run a particular kernel module.  Slackware's
"basic" install kernel is fairly generic.  Contact Slackware.

It seems not to be distro specific as Ubuntu 9.10, the live disc version
has a problem in that it will not produce anything other, or go any
further in the booting process, than a screen full of multi-coloured
lines.
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I demand that Vlad_Inhaler may or may not have written...

On Dec 13, 12:57 pm, Lurker <brokenj...@linuxmail.org> wrote:
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I am looking for a graphic and network card that will function with the
2.6.29.6 Kernel. I am however curious as to why the older one works the
full range of on-board functions and a newer one won't!

Looking the beast up:
- Integrated Nvidia® Geforce®7Series Shader model3.0 DirectX 9
graphics processor,
Dual VGA output support: RGB & DVI / RGB & HDMI
* Due to the chipset limitation, simultaneous output for DVI and
HDMI is not supported.

I've found 'lspci -k' output for this board (not hard to find online). It
seems that the graphics hw is a GeForce 7050PV; it should be supported by the
taintware, but also try the open-source drivers.

(I note that you've posted a link to a possible fix in a later posting.
Anyway, I'm sticking to Intel and slightly older ATI...)

- PHY Gigabit LAN

The same lspci output says "nVidia Corporation MCP67 Ethernet" and reports
forcedeth as being the driver in use. This should be fine (the driver is
distributed as part of the kernel), but it's possible that there are hardware
bugs which require use of a newer kernel which has workarounds for them.
(ISTR something about MAC addresses being reversed with some nForce Ethernet
hw.)

Suffice it to say that I have an nForce4-based board here which requires
forcedeth for the on-board Ethernet interface; all is working well.

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On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:09:09 +0000, Lurker wrote:

Stefan Patric not@thisaddress.com Sunday 13 Dec 2009 21:45 wrote:

Have you contacted Slackware about the problem and any solutions?  That
would have been the first place I would have gone to.  But it does
sound strange.  I just upgraded to Fedora 12 on my 64-bit system that
has around a 4 year old Abit MB with onboard LAN and sound.  Never had
any hardware issues, and I started on it with Fedora Core 6.

Could be you only need to run a particular kernel module.  Slackware's
"basic" install kernel is fairly generic.  Contact Slackware.

It seems not to be distro specific as Ubuntu 9.10, the live disc version
has a problem in that it will not produce anything other, or go any
further in the booting process, than a screen full of multi-coloured
lines.

FWIW, many times I've discovered that the "live" versions of distros can
have problems with older hardware, even a couple years, while the "full"
install versions do not. Less room on the disk, I surmise: the "older"
support is removed to make room for the new stuff.

In any case, I see in a later post there is a link to a "fix" for your
problem. So, I'll just wish you luck.


Stef

On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:20:01 +0000, notbob wrote:

On 2009-12-14, Stefan Patric <not@thisaddress.com> wrote:

FWIW, many times I've discovered that the "live" versions of distros
can have problems with older hardware, even a couple years.......

What distros? I've yet to find a computer Knoppix doesn't work on,
including ancient 440BX mobos with PII/celery's. Slax, DSL, Gparted,
etc, all work on 8 yr old P4s. The only live CD I've ever had fail to
work on old hardware is ubuntu. In fact, I've yet to get it to work on
any of the above.

Well, off the top of my head: an early version of Ubuntu, Fedora Core 6
32-bit, Fedora 8 32-bit, PCLinuxOS 2007, and Freespire. Others were so
bad--they failed to boot at all--that I've forgotten their names, but
that was a few years ago, and they probably aren't around anymore anyway.

Usually, most all those named would boot and be usable, but certain
things--sound, ethernet, video resolution, etc. wouldn't work or not work
properly. Sometimes, the problems could be "fixed", other times not. I
must say, however, that the inconsistencies and incompatibilities were
rare. The exception more than the rule.

My original "test" machine was a 1GHz AMD Duron, MSI MB, sound and USB
1.1 onboard, with first 256MB RAM, later 768 (max was 1.5 gigs) which I
built in 2002. (I no longer have it. Donated to charity last year.) My
current machine is a 3 year old 2 GHz Athlon64, aBit KN9 MB, NVidia
chipset, onboard LAN, USB 2, and sound, 4GB RAM. I've yet to have a
LiveCD not work on this machine, but then I carefully picked each
component to be as Linux compatible as possible. I guess all that
research paid off. ;-)


Stef

On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:30:44 +0000, notbob wrote:

On 2009-12-16, Stefan Patric <not@thisaddress.com> wrote:

My original "test" machine was a 1GHz AMD Duron, MSI MB, sound and USB
1.1 onboard, with first 256MB RAM, later 768 (max was 1.5 gigs) which I
built in 2002. (I no longer have it. Donated to charity last year.)
My current machine is a 3 year old 2 GHz Athlon64.....

I've never run AMD. Not that I wouldn't or have anything against AMD. I
jes never had the opportunity, having always come across great used
deals on Intel stuff. One of these days.....

Initially, almost 10 years ago, when I built my first Linux system, my
choice of AMD was mainly due to cost. AMD CPUs were considerably cheaper
than Intel's then, and as good or better performers. Not so much
anymore. But I've had good results with them, and just stayed mostly out
of laziness, and that AMD has been a more "Linux friendly" company over
the years than Intel.


Stef