Anyone install on Haswell?

[t-ray]

Just got in my Haswell parts (4770, 16gb, Samsung 840 Pro 256gb, msi mobo), and I am having all kinds of problems installing Linux Mint 14 (Nadia) 64bit, both Cinnamon and KDE. Having all kinds of weird rendering problems from the live CD's, and the installer is just freezing at 66% "Configuring Hardware".

What should I do? Is there any way I can burn a livecd with a newer kernel (a version of 3.10?)?

 

[Jodell88]

The driver support is there for Haswell already. I'm guessing that it has to do with UEFI on the motherboard but I can't say for sure.

I would suggest using Mint 15 instead of 14 as well.

 

[Kiska]

Or I would suggest Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit as UEFI tends to mess with the 32-bit systems. And I know Mint has some problems with Haswell but not noticeable. Hope it will install.
Kiska

 

[t-ray]

Update - Mint 15 installed just fine. After fooling around with KDE for a bit, I've decided to stick with Cinnamon. I've also updated the kernel to 3.9.x, and everything appears to be stable. Quite pleased so far.

 

[Jodell88]

:thumbsup:

 

[pm]

OP's problem was resolved, but for what it's worth, I just got my Core i7 4770 running on Xbuntu 12.04 last night and it's all running great.

I remember installing Linux back on a i386 back in 1991-ish and it was painful... it's amazing how far it's come and slick it is and how well it works. Xbuntu (and Mint) are just fantastic operation systems.

 

[t-ray]

I have had two hard freezes in the past two days. Had to actually turn the power off at the power supply (power button wouldn't even work).

I don't know if it is a hardware problem (cpu, mobo, ram, whatever), or if might be related to the kernel. I'm still new enough to linux that I have no clue how to find any kind of system hardware log to look for any interesting messages.

Even with the freezes, I'm loving this setup right now.

 

[jae]

if holding the power button doesnt work.. then i would guess its a hardware problem.. either the mobo or psu itself.

 

[t-ray]

It happened a third time this past Friday.

All three times I was doing a variation of the same thing. I had Chrome open with several tabs, one streaming musing from Google Play. I had a VirtualBox session running (W8 x64, 2gb memory, 1 core), and I was pulling down a code branch from my company over a software based vpn (checkpoint snx), and the branch is several hundreds of megabytes.

At this point I'm guessing it's the NIC.

I haven't had this happen when I don't have virtualbox running, or when not connected to the VPN, which is practically never.

 

[ControlD]

I will be running Mint 15 on Haswell sometime in the next week. I will report back if I see any similar issues.

 

[ControlD]

I finally got my CPU+MB from Newegg after a bit of a shipping snafu on their part. I can't even log into Mint 15 with the new system before I get a hard lock. Windows 8 on the other hand runs like a champ. I will try a fresh install of Mint to see if that helps.

 

[t-ray]

You already had it installed and just replaced the cpu/mb?

 

[ControlD]

You already had it installed and just replaced the cpu/mb?

Correct. In the past I have found Linux to be fairly tolerant of hardware changes, but perhaps this was asking a little too much of it.

 

[ControlD]

Well, I can't even get the Live DVD to work with my new system. It seems to me that the issue is chipset driver related. I can't seem to get get my KB and mouse to work for more than a few seconds. I will play around in the BIOS and see if I can get some things working.

 

[Jodell88]

UEFI problems perhaps?

 

[ControlD]

UEFI problems perhaps?

Good call. I rebooted and examined my options and selected UEFI boot from the DVD drive this time around and I am typing this post from the Mint 15 Live DVD.

I am guessing this means I need to reinstall Mint as I am moving from a traditional BIOS system to a much newer platform.

Thanks for the input!

 

[t-ray]

I wanted to bump this thread. My machine washard-freezing at least every few days, and most of the time it happened during some network intensive operation.

Then I found a scenario which caused the hard freeze reliably. I run Windows 8 inside a VirtualBox VM, with a vnc viewer pointing to the second monitor on the host system. Within the W8 vm, I share my screen with Microsoft Lync with coworkers running Windows over a vpn connection to corporate.

Read that again: screen sharing from within my VM out over a vpn connection, and within the VM, running a vnc viewer to display one of the monitors on the host machine.

Anyway, this setup would cause a hard-freeze within minutes every single time I attempted it. So I upgraded the kernel to 3.11, and now the machine has been rock-solid for a week. I am very pleased.

 

[JManInPhoenix]

I installed Ubuntu 13.04 (64 bit) on my new build with 4770 & MSI mobo with no major issues.