I got this motherboard since it seemed to be the only one (available) that supported Athlon 64 (939 pin) + PCI express + SATA for the future and in the past I have found NVidia cards to be very Linux friendly. I also have a Hauppauge Nova-T (PCI) and Hauppauge PVR 350 video capture cards as well. Processor is an Athlon 64 3200+ (939 pin 2GHz). Looking on the HCLs before I bought it, all the components seemed to be supported.

Configuration-wise, I am not using any SATA ports - just 2 x 80Gb P-IDE drives on IDE channel 0 and a DVD-RW drive + ATAPI tape streamer on channel 1.

The machine is set up as dual boot (Windows XP + FC3) via GRUB.

Under Windows, everything works fine (although I had to get the latest Hauppauge drivers to get the Nova-T and PVR-350 to co-exist easily). Under Linux, however, not so good.

I cannot get the NVidia card running properly. During boot I get a kernel message something like:

PCI: unable to allocate resource area 3 for device 05

Checking using lspci, device 5 is the PCI express NVidia card (6600GT). Under Windows, resource area 3 is a high memory area (DB000000-DC000000?)

In addition the sound card is detected as a SB Audigy LS (this is a CA0106 chipset) and fails to initialize.

I have tried stripping the system down to minimum components, taking out the Hauppauge cards and it still does not detect everything correctly. I have similar results under SimplyMEPIS 3.3.

I have not had any better results with newer kernels from ATrpms either.

Does anyone have any ideas as I am tearing my hair out with this...

In the vain hope that someone else knows what magic pentacle to pass as kernel parameters or what to add to modprobe, here is my dmesg with the errors

Linux version 2.6.11-1.14_FC3 (bhcompile@bugs.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.4.3 20050227 (Red Hat 3.4.3-22)) #1 Thu Apr 7 19:23:49 EDT 2005
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000003fff0000 - 000000003fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000003fff3000 - 0000000040000000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fef00000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fefffc00 - 00000000ff000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
127MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available.
Using x86 segment limits to approximate NX protection
On node 0 totalpages: 262128
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:16
HighMem zone: 32752 pages, LIFO batch:7
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 Nvidia ) @ 0x000f92f0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 Nvidia AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x3fff3040
ACPI: FADT (v001 Nvidia AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x3fff30c0
ACPI: MCFG (v001 Nvidia AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x3fff9500
ACPI: MADT (v001 Nvidia AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x3fff9440
ACPI: DSDT (v001 NVIDIA AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x4008
Allocating PCI resources starting at 40000000 (gap: 40000000:a0000000)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/1 xfs rhgb quiet swiotlb=32768
Initializing CPU#0
CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c0447000 soft=c0446000
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes)
Detected 2009.105 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 1034376k/1048512k available (2457k kernel code, 13360k reserved, 687k data, 180k init, 131008k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 3981.31 BogoMIPS (lpj=1990656)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Initializing.
SELinux: Starting in permissive mode
selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability
Capability LSM initialized as secondary
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 078bfbff e3d3fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000001
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 078bfbff e3d3fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000001
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After all inits, caps: 078bf3ff e3d3fbff 00000000 00000010 00000000 00000000 00000001
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ stepping 00
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0c28)
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 580k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 3.00 entry at 0xfb740, last bus=5
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050211
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:09.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.HUB0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK2] (IRQs 3 4 *5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK3] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK4] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK5] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUBA] (IRQs 3 4 *5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUBB] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LMAC] (IRQs *3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LACI] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LMCI] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LSMB] (IRQs *3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUB2] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LIDE] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LSID] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LFID] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LPCA] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC1] (IRQs 16) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC2] (IRQs 17) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC3] (IRQs 18) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC4] (IRQs 19) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC5] (IRQs *16), disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCF] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCG] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCH] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCJ] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCK] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCS] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCL] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCZ] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APSI] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APSJ] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCP] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 13 devices
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
** PCI interrupts are no longer routed automatically. If this
** causes a device to stop working, it is probably because the
** driver failed to call pci_enable_device(). As a temporary
** workaround, the "pci=routeirq" argument restores the old
** behavior. If this argument makes the device work again,
** please email the output of "lspci" to bjorn.helgaas@hp.com
** so I can fix the driver.
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 3 of device 0000:05:00.0
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
pnp: 00:00: ioport range 0x4000-0x407f could not be reserved
pnp: 00:00: ioport range 0x4080-0x40ff has been reserved
pnp: 00:00: ioport range 0x4400-0x447f has been reserved
pnp: 00:00: ioport range 0x4480-0x44ff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:00: ioport range 0x4800-0x487f has been reserved
pnp: 00:00: ioport range 0x4880-0x48ff has been reserved
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1116597071.060:0): initialized
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks
Initializing Cryptographic API
ksign: Installing public key data
Loading keyring
- Added public key D3D8ABEBF02BB2BE
- User ID: Red Hat, Inc. (Kernel Module GPG key)
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0b.0 to 64
pcie_portdrv_probe->Dev[005d:10de] has invalid IRQ. Check vendor BIOS
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0c.0 to 64
pcie_portdrv_probe->Dev[005d:10de] has invalid IRQ. Check vendor BIOS
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0d.0 to 64
pcie_portdrv_probe->Dev[005d:10de] has invalid IRQ. Check vendor BIOS
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0e.0 to 64
pcie_portdrv_probe->Dev[005d:10de] has invalid IRQ. Check vendor BIOS
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
ACPI: Fan [FAN] (on)
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (22 C)
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
[drm] Initialized drm 1.0.0 20040925
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 76 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
NFORCE-CK804: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:06.0
NFORCE-CK804: chipset revision 162
NFORCE-CK804: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
NFORCE-CK804: BIOS didn't set cable bits correctly. Enabling workaround.
NFORCE-CK804: 0000:00:06.0 (rev a2) UDMA133 controller
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfb00-0xfb07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfb08-0xfb0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: IC35L080AVVA07-0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: IC35L080AVVA07-0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: _NEC DVD_RW ND-1300A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: Seagate STT20000A, ATAPI TAPE drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Probing IDE interface ide2...
Probing IDE interface ide3...
Probing IDE interface ide4...
Probing IDE interface ide5...
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 160836480 sectors (82348 MB) w/1863KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 >
hdb: max request size: 128KiB
hdb: 160836480 sectors (82348 MB) w/1863KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdb: cache flushes supported
hdb: hdb1
hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1
md: md driver 0.90.1 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 64Kbytes
TCP established hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 1835008 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
ACPI wakeup devices:
HUB0 XVR0 XVR1 XVR2 XVR3 USB0 USB2 MMAC MMCI UAR1
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
Freeing unused kernel memory: 180k freed
EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
SELinux: Disabled at runtime.
SELinux: Unregistering netfilter hooks
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.31.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LMAC] enabled at IRQ 3
PCI: setting IRQ 3 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0a.0 to 64
eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 01462:7100 bound to 0000:00:0a.0
snd_page_alloc: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted.
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
eth0: no link during initialization.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:0d.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Model 1009 Rev 00000000 Serial 10091462
eth0: link up.
ALSA /var/tmp/bach-build/BUILD/alsa-driver-1.0.8/pci/ac97/../../alsa-kernel/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c:1907: AC'97 0 does not respond - RESET
ALSA /var/tmp/bach-build/BUILD/alsa-driver-1.0.8/pci/ac97/../../alsa-kernel/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c:1916: AC'97 0 access is not valid [0x0], removing mixer.
CA0106: probe of 0000:01:0d.0 failed with error -5
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
cx88_dvb: disagrees about version of symbol mt352_attach
cx88_dvb: Unknown symbol mt352_attach
cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.4 loaded
cx2388x: snapshot date 2005-03-10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:06.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
cx88[0]: subsystem: 0070:9002, board: Hauppauge Nova-T DVB-T [card=18,autodetected]
cx88[0]: hauppauge eeprom: model=90002, tuner=76
cx88[0]: registered IR remote control
cx88[0]/0: found at 0000:01:06.0, rev: 5, irq: 11, latency: 32, mmio: 0xfa000000
cx88[0]/0: registered device video0 [v4l2]
cx88[0]/0: registered device vbi0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUB2] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:02.1[B] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ehci_hcd 0000:00:02.1: EHCI Host Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.1 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:02.1: irq 10, pci mem 0xfebfe000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:02.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
PCI: cache line size of 64 is not supported by device 0000:00:02.1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:02.1: park 0
ehci_hcd 0000:00:02.1: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 10 ports detected
ohci_hcd: 2004 Nov 08 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUBA] enabled at IRQ 5
PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.0: OHCI Host Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64
ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.0: irq 5, pci mem 0xfebff000
ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 10 ports detected
usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
SCSI subsystem initialized
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usb-storage: device found at 3
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
ohci1394: $Rev: 1223 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK4] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:0c.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[11] MMIO=[fdfff000-fdfff7ff] Max Packet=[2048]
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0010dc0000789470]
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c03d7840(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK3] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:05:00.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:05:00.0 to 64
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-7174 Tue Mar 22 06:44:39 PST 2005
Vendor: Generic Model: USB Storage-SMC Rev: I03A
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Vendor: Generic Model: USB Storage-CFC Rev: I03A
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Vendor: Generic Model: USB Storage-MMC Rev: I03A
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Vendor: Generic Model: USB Storage-MSC Rev: I03A
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
usb-storage: device scan complete
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sdb: 62976 512-byte hdwr sectors (32 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdb: 62976 512-byte hdwr sectors (32 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
sdb: sdb1
Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 1
Attached scsi removable disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 2
Attached scsi removable disk sdd at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 3
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ibm_acpi: ec object not found
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
EXT3 FS on hda6, internal journal
device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
cdrom: open failed.
SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, large block numbers, no debug enabled
SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
XFS mounting filesystem hda8
Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: hda8
Adding 2096440k swap on /dev/hda7. Priority:-1 extents:1
hdc: CHECK for good STATUS