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Message-ID: <20081002160933.GM22849@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 12:09:33 -0400
From: lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
To: Matthew Stoltenberg <d3matt@...il.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: motherboard recommendations?
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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