On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 05:38:33PM -0800, Paul B. Henson wrote: > I managed to escalate the integrated graphics question high enough to > find somebody who knew what they were talking about, he said, as you > confirmed, that they work fine with this motherboard other than that > you cannot use the integrated graphics, it is disabled. Pretty much > what I thought, they should clarify their footnote on the > specification page.
Looking at one of the pages, it only says the Xeon E3 12x5 [v2] chips are not recommended. They really should specify more clearly. > Out of curiosity, have you tried enabling the ipmi driver? I have an > older atom server with an X7SPA-HF motherboard (which is actually > being replaced by this one), and I found that the ipmi sensor provided > more values than the lm one. The box came as passively cooled, I ended > up sticking in three fans anyway. It still runs a bit hot, but within > the acceptable range for that processor: The ipmi(4) driver only supports IPMI 1.5 although the X7SPA-HF specifies that it supports IPMI 2.0 just like the X9SCL-F and similar boards. For whatever reason it doesn't provide any values or load at all. The kern.watchdog.period option also doesn't appear on this system (running 5.4, by the way). The ipmi(4) driver shows up in my dmesg but as: ipmi at mainbus0 not configured A few years back I had an X7SPA-HF or similar board in the barebones system you can buy but I don't have a dmesg from it readily accessible. In any case, ipmi(4) is not working on my systems. Bryan
