kernel = Linux 2.6.12-12mdksmp
to install Mandriva 2006 x86_32 or x86_64 i needed to pass
linux noapic
for installation to boot (hangs at initialising SATA)
however if
No APIC or No Local APIC are added to lilo.conf of Installed Mandriva various onboard devices dont not initialise including onboard network and USB devices.
onboard VGA=working
Athlon 64 X2=working and optimised out of box in x86_64
USB2=Working
IDE=Working
SATA=Working
10/100 NIC=Working
Onboard Audio=Working in 7.1
Digital Outputs= untested
Radeon Xpress 200 onboard Video (functional in FrameBuffer
(VESA or SVGA only, does not work with ATI or Radeon FB options)
Proprietory ATI southbridge drivers work like a charm for OpenGL support
ATI ‎IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
ATI 437A Serial ATA Controller SATA and IDE
• An IDE controller on the ATI® SB450 chipset provides IDE HDD/CDROM with PIO, Bus
• Serial ATA/150 controller integrated by ATI® SB450
Onboard NIC based on Realtek 8139too card
Onboard Audio
• Azalia link controller integrated in SB450 chipset
• 8-channel audio codec Realtek ALC880
- Compliance with HD Audio (Azalia) 1.0 spec
I only hope I can edit this post later, so I can update on a progresss... Why isnt it a wiki???
I bought this motherboard for a media center PC to attach to my LCD HDTV. It's a decent board with a good integrated graphics card, DVI & SPDIF outputs, 64-bit etc.
Here is wisdom i gathered so far:
- Disable MMIO in bios, it won't work
- You must boot with "noapic nolapic" options for a "generic" kernel to work. It will "work" enough for you to install a base system - ide will be very slow, interrupts will get lost etc.
- Build a custom kernel as soon as you can. APIC will work fine (and has to be enabled back) on a custom built kernel.
- ACPI DSDT is broken. I was unable to dump/dfix it yet, currently working on it...
- The only display driver that works is an ATI propritary driver. Haven't installed it yet...
Hardware / drivers:
ide - ATI IXP PCI busmaster DMA
sata - SCSI, Silicon image 3112
nic - Realtek 8139too
Overall - so far it seems to be a good motherboard, the only thing that it is a new model gives a lot of headache...
Would you recommend the product? no | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 5
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.15.3
Distribution:
ALTLinux-custom
Hello!
I bought same motherboard and it seems there are problems.
(kernel 2.6.15.3 for x86 32bit)
When i disable APIC in BIOS Linux works well and can access to PCI devices (NIC, etc.) But WindowsXP32 doesn't boot and system can't boot from cdrom.
(in this case Linux compiled with disabled APIC)
And when APIC in BIOS is enabled Linux can't access to PCI devices. (even APIC is enabled in kernel)
Could you tell me what kernel boot options (and kernel configuration, BIOS options related to APIC) can help in this situation? Have you some problems with this board?
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 6
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.12-12mdk
Distribution:
Mandriva 2006
Hello. My motherboard is not the same, but I had the same problem when trying to install various Linux distributions. As specified above in this thread, you have to boot with the following options:
noapic acpi=off
Once started the installer you can thus install your Linux. Take care to modify the Lilo (or Grub) boot option, specifiyng the same options.
Fulcro
Would you recommend the product? no | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 6
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.15-1.1831_FC4
Distribution:
Fedora Core 4 x86_64
Installing Linux was a problem, but noapic kernel option allowed to install Fedora Core. Fedora Core 5 test 2 installation booted without noapic switch, but haged on the package selection (might be related to mb or not).
Soundcard wasn't found with original kernel. After updating kernel, system finds it but it doesn't work yet.
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