Donnie said:
Hello,
Does anyone have a good suggestion for the best Asus board to run
Linux? I believe that the updates for Nvidia based boards might get
annoying and I'm not sure how well the Via chipsets are supported
under Linux either.
Via boards are generally supported quite well. That said, if you're
buying newest generation there can be some installation trouble, with
current linux distributions and KT600 based boards probably some things
require some work.
nforce2 boards have 3 problem areas afaik, the network chip needs a
binary driver (so it isn't included in distributions), I believe for
hardware monitoring there is no driver at all, and in the past there was
no agpgart support at all (except included in nvidias graphic driver, so
no luck with other graphic cards), however agpgart is now included in
standard kernel (though not yet in current distributions).
AMD-chipset based boards should also be supported quite well, current
kernels already support the new HT-AGP tunnels and other things for the
athlon-64, but you can't buy them yet and the amd athlon chipsets are
really a bit outdated...
If you need hardware monitoring, asus probably isn't the right choice.
For some reason, asus doesn't use the chipset southbridge for that, but
their own asic (though I'm not sure if this is true for all boards).
Previously asus used the "bach" chip (for instance on the a7v133) which
is supported by lm-sensors (it's basically a clone of another,
well-documented chip), however their newer chip "mozart" is not
documented and unsupported.
Roland
