Hi all,

Can anyone let me know if the following aspects of the Asus A8V are supported please ?

- Onboard NIC
- Soundcard
- SATA controller

I've checked the wifi and that seems ok.

Thanks

Hi there,

I'm not sure if kernel support is provided for all/any of these components. If not, Via does have linux drivers available for your sound and SATA, but 'm not sure about the network chip. You can go to www.viaarena.com to see their list of available linux drivers. I know that Via provides support to the linux kernel development group so some/all of these drivers may already be built into the kernel.

Hi

Support for the network chip (marvell yukon 1000mbit/s) is in the 2.6.x-kernels. at least in 2.6.9-rc3-mm3, don't know for sure about others.

sata-ports are supported by libata:
via_sata for the ports of the via vt6420
sata_promise (I think) for the sata raid ports of the promise pdc 20378

You can't use the parallel ata ports of the promise controller, however.


Don't know about the onboard sound, because I'm not gonna use it.

Sounds about right. I just bought an Asus A8V and now have SuSE 9.2 running on it. The onboard Marvell NIC is supported by the SysKonnect SK98xx driver. The SATA controllers appear to work. Unfortunately I also have a pair of 30GB PATA drives connected to the Promise and those ports are not showing up. The sata_promise driver only supports the SATA ports. You can download "Linux source code" from the Promise web site, but it includes a precompiled 32 bit object file that the driver uses, so it appears you can't build a 64 bit driver with it. (That's the FastTrak S150 TX2plus, by the way.)

I haven't done anything with the sound drivers, although I've noticed a few blips and error beeps while running KDE.