Best 939 Motherboard for Linux

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Net

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Aug 30, 2003
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Hello,

I am looking for the most compatiable (100% compatiable) Motherboard for linux.

Want
1. 3GB/s SATA
2. On board Video
3. On board Audio

I will put an AMD Athlon 64 4000+ in it
 
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KIRBYEE

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Hey,

I own the Asus A8N-VM CSM -motherboard and it works well. Be sure to use a recent kernel (onboard NIC might not work with kernels older than 2.6.16) and a recent version of ALSA (from the year 2006 or never) though. Also the default BIOS had broken ACPI back when I bought it so you might have to upgrade it. Luckily upgrading the BIOS doesn't require Windows.

NIC uses the forcedeth driver and onboard sound uses the snd-hda-intel driver. Onboard video works with the vesa driver or the proprietary nvidia driver, 3D works too of course. nv driver works too but not when using DVI-output. Suspend to disk also works, I haven't tried suspend to ram but I guess it works.

It's a good board, however, don't expect the integrated Geforce 6150 to run Quake 4 or Doom 3 or even UT2004 properly. Hope this helps. :)

http://usa.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3&l2=15&l3=210&model=766&modelmenu=1

EDIT: My first post btw. :D
 
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Robor

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Originally posted by: KIRBYEE
Hey,

I own the Asus A8N-VM CSM -motherboard and it works well. Be sure to use a recent kernel (onboard NIC might not work with kernels older than 2.6.16) and a recent version of ALSA (from the year 2006 or never) though. Also the default BIOS had broken ACPI back when I bought it so you might have to upgrade it. Luckily upgrading the BIOS doesn't require Windows.

NIC uses the forcedeth driver and onboard sound uses the snd-hda-intel driver. Onboard video works with the vesa driver or the proprietary nvidia driver, 3D works too of course. nv driver works too but not when using DVI-output. Suspend to disk also works, I haven't tried suspend to ram but I guess it works.

It's a good board, however, don't expect the integrated Geforce 6150 to run Quake 4 or Doom 3 or even UT2004 properly. Hope this helps. :)

http://usa.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3&l2=15&l3=210&model=766&modelmenu=1

EDIT: My first post btw. :D
Click to expand...

Nice first post! :thumbsup: Welcome to AnandTech. Hope you like it here! :D
 
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drag

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Get Intel instead.

A 945G chipset based motherboard. Onboard video, both 2d and 3d will work out of the box as will SATA and audio and NIC.

I own this:
http://usa.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=194&model=536&modelmenu=1

But if I did it again I'd get this:
http://usa.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=194&model=1146&modelmenu=1

due to the AHCI support, which is great in low-end servers which is what I'd use it for when I retire it from being my desktop machine. The only gripe is that I need to purchase a additional add-on card for digital out to work. For DVI out and other TV out options a ADD2 add-on card can be purchased and should be supported under Linux, but I don't have personal experiance with them. Also for non-standard video resolutions (like widescreen) you have to use a 915resolution program as a hack to work around the bios limitations (which unfortunately Intel can't do anything about since it left modesetting hardware up to individual motherboard makers so they ended up being weird and specific for each device, but 915resolution is a easy workaround.)
 
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