Calling all 64 bit linux users

monkiidansu · 03-25-2007, 01:49 AM

Alright, I am having a hell of a time finding a motherboard that wont mess me up. I got an intel DP965LT and my CDROM doesn't work. I tried out an ASUS P5NSLI and my video wouldn't display. I am just incredibly frustrated and I do not want to just keep going out and buying different motherboards to see which ones work, so I want to ask here: What motherboard has the least amount of troubles with 64 bit (particularily with SATA) considering my specs below? Any help will be MUCH appreciated.

Hitboxx · 03-25-2007, 02:13 AM

Well i don't know about what are the motherboards but as you can see I do have pretty much the same hardware as yours.

While installation, I head to BIOS, change harddrive device type to AHCI, and install using 'linux all-generic-ide irqpoll pci=nommconf'. Once installation is done, 'pci=nommconf' is added to the kernel line in grub.conf, I just add 'all-generic-ide' which detects all cdroms and devices. And if you are dual-booting with Windows, you can set the AHCI back to IDE. Else Windows won't work.

Hope this helps.

chuckbuhler · 03-25-2007, 07:52 AM

I'm using an Intel D946GZ board, and only problem was not recognizing the video correctly. A quick edit of xorg.conf, and everything is happy. I'm using the i810 video drivers. Only problem with my system is a goofy problem with DVD-RAM disks.

Running SuSE 10.2 x86_64.

monkiidansu · 03-25-2007, 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by shrikant.odugoudar

Well i don't know about what are the motherboards but as you can see I do have pretty much the same hardware as yours.

While installation, I head to BIOS, change harddrive device type to AHCI, and install using 'linux all-generic-ide irqpoll pci=nommconf'. Once installation is done, 'pci=nommconf' is added to the kernel line in grub.conf, I just add 'all-generic-ide' which detects all cdroms and devices. And if you are dual-booting with Windows, you can set the AHCI back to IDE. Else Windows won't work.

Hope this helps.

Awsome, that worked, thanks for the information. I haven't had time to go through the installation process, but I ran it to see if it would do the trick. I'll post again if I have any more problems.

monkiidansu · 03-26-2007, 04:05 PM

Well, I got linux installed, but it wont let me mount my other drives in order to copy some files. Also, my bios wont let me change to boot order to boot my IDE drive so I can just mount the SATA drive and do it that way.

Hitboxx · 03-26-2007, 07:16 PM

If I understand you correctly, is your BIOS crippled? I don't think so. Your motherboard is fairly new and it should allow you to change boot order. Where are you checking, surely you must be missing something!

monkiidansu · 03-26-2007, 10:07 PM

No, I know where to change it, but when I go to change it, I select a different hard drive, the order remains the same anyway.