On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 04:29:21PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm looking into build another machine, possibly based on the A7N
> series of motherboards. Can anyone recommend one that works particularly
> well with Gentoo? I'd like all the motherboard extra components (audio,
> NIC, others) to be well supported in Gentoo, Alsa, etc..
I have the A7N8X-Delux running under gentoo just dandy. Admittadly, it
was a bit of a rocky start, but not too bad :)
You will probably want to run something newer than the gentoo-sources to
get the support for the nforce2 chipset. I run ac-sources with no
problems.
As far as getting the features working, you'll need:
- general support
Use a kernel that supports the nforce2 chipset, ie: ac-sources
You'll find it under block devices->agpgart and ata support->ide
support->amd and nvidia chipset
- network
I've heard that the nvidia NIC is better than the 3com nic (the
delux has two NICS onboard), and while I did have some issues with
freezing on large network transfers, this was cleared out by the
new kernel, but no problem with either now. If you are going to
use the nVidia NIC make sure you emerge [-f] nforce-net first so you
aren't stuck without a network and a need to get online.
- audio
emerge nforce-audio and then stick "nvaudio" in your
/etc/modules.autoload should work fine. Optionally you can compile
and use the Intel ICH i8xx (nForce Audio) in the kernel. I don't
have anything other than two speakers set up, so I can't vouch that
you'll get full 5.1 surround, but it's on my list of things to try!
- usb
I don't have many usb devices, but setting them up with the
standard USB drivers in the kernel seemed to work fine.
Other than that things are fine. When I first started out I couldn't
keep the box up for more than a couple of hours before a complete
freeze, which *really* pissed me off, but I think partly that was due to
getting a new MB at a point when there wasn't support in the kernel. If
you search on the forums for a7n8x you'll find a few of my posts :)
Feel free to email me if you have any other questions.
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