Lee, On Tuesday 24 October 2006 12:09, BandiPat wrote: > On Tuesday 24 October 2006 09:36, Marcel de Reuver wrote: > > Is it correct that Opensuse does not install on an ASUS A8V-MX with > > VIA VT8251 South Bridge chipset. When I install Opensuse the SATA > > drive is not recognized. > > > > What can I do to correct this? > > Thanks for your input. > > Probably one of the best things you could do is stop using ASUS > products. They are very anti-Linux and from your problem, appears to > still be that way. I've noticed several Asus mobo problems of late > with users just on these mailing lists.
Yeah. Just discard your hardware investment and follow the Linux / Open Source purists. Get real. For one thing, their hardware is good, so avoiding it just because they have a bad attitude about Linux and open source amounts to nothing more than cutting off your nose to spite your face. One could just as well make the case that you should spite _them_ by successfully running Linux on their hardware despite their sycophantic attitude towards MS. Furthermore unrecognized hardware is not the fault of the hardware vendor, it just means a driver is either not yet available or not part of the distribution being used. I don't know if this board is late-model or not, but my P5B is pretty new and it has a couple of components (one of the Ethernet controllers and the 3rd-party IDE interface) for which support is very new and not in most distributions yet. For the most part, it just requires the latest kernel (something the SUSE folks are good about) or in other cases, minor tweaks to drivers (e.g., adding a device ID to the list compiled in to the driver). This sort of thing is the price of living at the bleeding edge, I'd say. > Lee RRS --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
