On Monday 06 October 2003 07:29 pm, 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.. > > Thanks in advance for any pointers. > > Thanks, > Mark > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
I'm running a similar board that works well on Gentoo. On board nic works well sound is spdif 5.1. DMA works well also. Graphics scream with an Nvidia GeForce 4 TI 4200 or better. The only problem with its functionality has been lm-sensors which is now well supported in version 2.8.0. at kernel level 2.4.20-r7 (gentoo-sources). As a special bonus, it is a bit more reasonably priced than ASUS board with the same features, and from what I've seen from others on the list, a bit easier to get working. The board is a Leadtek K7NCR18-D-pro. I purchased it from Monarch Computer http://www.monarchcomputer.com/ One thing to watch out for with the nforce2 based boards is the fact that the onboard nic drivers are not GPL but are in portage. This might not seem like a problem but it makes it necessary to boot the live CD with the "gentoo no-net" option (hit tab at the CD boot prompt to check my syntax) As of this time, there is no ebuild for lm-sensors-2.8.0 but it is available as a tarball from their home page. http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/ Another tip: the current gentoo-sources kernel doesn't support version 2.8.0 so don't bother building i2c support into your kernel. Instead, d'load i2c-2.8.0 from the lm-sensors page and build that before lm-sensors. If you do go this route, I'll try to help out if you run into problems, but another source of useful information is http://www.nforcershq.com/ there is a linux section of their forums. -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
