Linux on SK8V or K8t800

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Does anybody know which Distro/kernel supports this board(Asus SK8V)?

Has anybody tried it?

Jason

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Details? Have you had problems getting it to work? What chipset? Anything particularly odd about the board?

 

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Its a K8T800 chipset with Promise and Via raid controllers, gigabit lan...

I havent tried anything yet. Ive read on a few linux forums about a few ppl trying to get various things to work. I noticed on the Asus site there are compileable drivers for the nic. I was just curious if anybody on this forum has tried it.

jason

 

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Newer hardware causes issues, promise cards can realy suck, too.

Best way to find out is to download the ISO's and try it out. If it doesn't work you can simply reclaim the diskpace for windows and use it for your home files or something.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Send me the box and I'll try it

 

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haha..
later this summer I might try loading linux on this system now that I know it might put up a bigger fight than usual..
(friggen windows..)
thinking about loading either mandrake or fedora on an old P3 933 system...

 

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spose if worse came to worse I could use just the IDE drives and buy a compatible nic card..

 

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mandrake cant be downloaded any more??

 

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nm.. was on mandrake.com

 

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getting fedora amd64 now

 

[n0cmonkey]

Post back after you install it. I'd be interested to see what is supported and what isn't.

 

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should i try it with the drives in a raid configuration.. two are serial and two are parallel

 

[n0cmonkey]

Probably not. I don't know how well BIOS assisted software raid is supported in Linux. You'd probably have more luck getting a real raid controller or just using software raid.

 

[XBoxLPU]

No problems here with Asus K8V Deluxe ( VIA K8T800 chipset as well ) with Slackware 9.1-current/2.6.5 kernel

AGP and chipset built into kernel
As well as the 3Com(3C940) Ethernet, using the SysConnect driver in the kernel.

I am not using the Promise controller nor SATA so....

 

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Thats awesome..
I dont know when i'll have time to try this.. I bought a 200gig maxtor drive today at staples for 129bux to back everything up before I dismantle the array. You are the first person Ive seen on many diff forums that has the K8T800 mostly working. Im wondering if i should try the fedora or just go right to the slack...
Thanks for the post.

 

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slack 9.1 comes with the 2.4 kernel.. Its been a few years since ive used linux.. Did you install the 2.4 and then later compile the 2.6 kernel? Im not sure im up to that yet..

 

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The latest fedora core was realeased in march, seems like they would be on top of things..

 

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If you want, go ahead and try the latest pre-release for Core2 from Fedora. It should be pretty stable and you can use apt/yum to update that to the full stable version when it comes out without having to download the ISO and reinstall everything.

That will probably have the latest drivers for your board.

 

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that was the direction i was headed..

 

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how is linux with USB keyboards and mice, should I dig out the PS2 stuff? its been that long...

 

[XBoxLPU]

Originally posted by: synapse02
slack 9.1 comes with the 2.4 kernel.. Its been a few years since ive used linux.. Did you install the 2.4 and then later compile the 2.6 kernel? Im not sure im up to that yet..

Yes a "full" Slackware 9.1 with 2.4 Kernel

I then Downloaded and compiled the latest stable kernel ( 2.6.5 ).

I am using the MX Duo as well ( usb keyboard and mouse ), I have built in support in the kernel as well....

 

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Haven't had any issues, I use USB mice pretty much exclusively nowadays. Keyboards shouldn't be a big issue either, but I don't have one.

Just so you know the mouse protocol is usually IMPS/2 for optical usb mice, probably for all usb mice and the mouse device is usually /dev/input/mice or /dev/input/mouse0 or whatever.