On Tuesday 16 October 2007 11:15, Randall R Schulz wrote: > The hardware _is_ well-supported by Linux. Anecdotal evidence (is that > an oxymoron?) is that Linux is _not_ well-supported by Asus. I cannot > confirm or refute this, since the only thing I ever rely on the > mainboard vendor for is BIOS updates.
Overall I have not found many problems with ASUS boards, but one thing I often have problems with (using these boards) is the sensors package. On an older board the package installed but the results were not useful. Apparently (information gathered from a web search) ASUS would not provide the appropriate hardware information to the developers at the time. (Sorry for lack of detail here, but I no longer have this board. It had an AMD K6 processor though, to give an idea of the timeline.) Several months ago I updated to a newer AMD Athlon 64 X2 system with an ASUS M2N-E mothboard. I did finally get sensors to work, and now I have exactly two items listed - temperatures for CPU0 and CPU1 - nothing more. The temperatures themselves seem reasonable, but no other information is reported. Of course this may all be down to me doing something wrong (a distinct possibility) or the fact that this is a relatively new (~1 year old?) motherboard. I have had no^H^H relatively few problem with the sensors package on any of the Intel boards I have used. Lots of information is available (fan speeds, voltages, memory usage, etc.) -- Don -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
