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09-23-2012
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9.0
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Asus motherboard that the newer kernels drive well.
Running 2.6.28-11-generic and it detects all the boards features.
Propriety drivers run the onboard GPU well, and although I've heard earlier kernels wouldn't access the built-in audio, the latest do. Sound is good as is video.
Ethernet runs without problems.
Express Gate, which is Asus' mini-OS with 5 second boot takes a little work. You have to set up an NTFS partition, and with Wine run the installer from DVD. Then tweak a bit, but it works.
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Keywords:
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motherboard asus
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/sbin/lspci output:
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david@david-desktop:~$ lspci
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Memory Controller (rev a2)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] SMBus (rev a1)
00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:01.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Co-Processor (rev a2)
00:01.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a1)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a1)
00:04.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a1)
00:04.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a1)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] IDE (rev a1)
00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] High Definition Audio (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Bridge (rev a1)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] SATA Controller (non-AHCI mode) (rev a2)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Ethernet (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:12.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] HyperTransport Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Link Control
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8200 (rev a2)
david@david-desktop:~$
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Chipset:
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nVidia Corporation GeForce 8200
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09-23-2012, 08:16 AM
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Registered: Apr 2010
Distribution: Debian Testing
Posts: 314
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 9
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Kernel (uname -r):
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3.2.0-3-686-pae
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Debian Wheezy
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The mobo works perfectly well. I use it with a Athlon II x2 250 CPU @ 3GHz (the mobo needed a BIOS upgrade) and 4 GB RAM @800 MHz and no dedicated vid card as the onboard is very good for my needs.
Never cared for the Express Gate function. BTW what practical use does it have? You have an OS installed on the computer already - if you want fast startup, just suspend the computer.
The integrated graphics (nvidia 8200) are quite fast for an IGP -its actually faster than a dedicated 7300 with the same speed RAM (800 MHz). I use the proprietary nvidia driver.
Additionally the hardware decoding via VDPAU works wonderfully - 1080p clips played with mplayer use ~10% CPU.
I did not try the HDMI output.
Suspend/hibernate works perfectly.
I ran Ubuntu 9.04-9.10, then Debian Squeeze and now Wheezy on it, did not have any issues.
All in all this mobo works perfectly with Linux, especially because its integrated card is supported by nvidia with the proprietary drivers.
The SATA ports are plug-and-play, i connected/disconnected many hdds runtime (mainly for data recovery) and it worked with no issues (well except when the drive was damaged that is...).
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