Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Oct 2008 12:09:33 -0400 | Subject | Re: motherboard recommendations? | From | (Lennart Sorensen) |
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On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 10:03:55AM -0500, Matthew Stoltenberg wrote: > I got an ASUS P5Q (P45 chipset) a couple of weeks ago. A couple of > minor issues: > * The Marvell IDE controller is broken in 2.6.25 and 2.6.26.
Well I must admit I have never tried a marvell ide controller before. Support only seems very recent, so they are not yet on my list of things I know work.
> * Make sure the sata controller is running in AHCI mode
Well of course, AHCI is a lovely feature to have.
> * The onboard Atheros NIC is not supported in the kernel. I have to > build the driver seperately (it's actually on the driver disk)
Atheros? Hmm, the P5K was using atlantic, so I wonder why they are not using atheros.
> The intel HD audio works great.
That's always something.
So overall it sounds like:
Sound works IDE probably will soon Networking can be made to work, and hopefully will go in mainline kernel soon. SATA works.
That's not too bad for a brand new board.
-- Len Sorensen
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