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Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-DS4H

Have any of you tried the Gigabyte Mobo GA-MA790GP-DS4H, specifically with Debian/Ubuntu. What results did you get with this card when playing back DVDs, and what video mode were you using? (1080i? 1080p? something else?)

Any comments or advice gratefully received, I'm about to buy one of these for a general purpose/Media Centre server, to run 24/7 and replace my Digiboxes, my dvd player and vcr, my stereo, radio, etc, etc, unless anyone can tell me there is something better at the price (just over £100)

Oh and while you're thinking along these lines, what about the ASUS M3N-HT Deluxe/HDMI...same questions as above

Hi. I think the first thing you should consider is if the kernel supports the chipsets used.

See my tag for hardware details.

I have had this system for 6 weeks and it took quite a while to sort out who used what.

There is a definite conflict with the names of the asus chipset.

It uses a 730a MCP78 chipset, and still now it identifies it as a gf8200, which is a graphics card.

A variation of this board has integrated graphics, a gf8200 (sli capable). Mine does not.

My Gigabyte graphics pci-express x16 v2.0 is registered as an asus and was fubar for a while.

0605 does not exist yet in the pciid database. (hmm, new version is out today)
http://pciids.sourceforge.net/pci.ids

Mandriva Hardware manager...

Code:

Identification

Vendor: ‎nVidia Corporation



Description: ‎Device 0605



Media class: ‎VGA compatible controller



Connection

Bus: ‎PCI



PCI domain: ‎0



Bus PCI #: ‎2



PCI device #: ‎0



PCI function #: ‎0



Vendor ID: ‎0x10de



Device ID: ‎0x0605



Sub vendor ID: ‎0x1043



Sub device ID: ‎0x82f2



Misc

Module: ‎Card:NVIDIA GeForce 6100 and later

Code:

Identification

Vendor: ‎nVidia Corporation



Description: ‎MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Co-Processor



Media class: ‎Co-processor



Connection

Bus: ‎PCI



PCI domain: ‎0



Bus PCI #: ‎0



PCI device #: ‎1



PCI function #: ‎3



Vendor ID: ‎0x10de



Device ID: ‎0x0753



Sub vendor ID: ‎0x1043



Sub device ID: ‎0x82f2



Misc

Module: ‎unknown

and as you may see here, a piece of hardware has no module.

I for one am glad you are researching first.

BTW, I am using the nVidia .run package for graphics (770.80).

I have a feeling nVidia are too busy cleaning up after the HP laptop failures to pay attention to small time buyers.

Good luck, Glenn

ps, It is a similar situation in m$win on my system (dual boot), I can't get any bios info from the graphics card and there are no update for the mobo (asus) or the 3d graphics (gigabyte).

some specs I have correlated...(graphics)

Code:

            NVIDIA GeForce GPUs



NVIDIA Vendor ID 10de



GPU                                Device PCI ID



GeForce 9800 GX2                0x0604

GeForce 9800 GTX/9800 GTX+        0x0612

GeForce 9800 GTX+                0x0613

GeForce 9800 GT                        0x0614



no match for...

GeForce 9800 GT                        0x0605

gpu core G92

Vendor ID: ‎0x10de (NVIDIA)

Device ID: ‎0x0605 (not listed)

Sub vendor ID: ‎0x1043 (wrong, should be GigaByte, 1458)

Sub device ID: ‎0x82f2 (not listed)



sub vendor/card Manufacturer

Gigabyte        1458

Asus                1043



NVIDIA GPU GeForce 9800 GT (G92) at PCI:2:0:0 (GPU-0)

Memory: 524288 kBytes

VideoBIOS: 62.92.23.00.10



Driver:

        Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver



Version: 177.80

Operating System: Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T)

Release Date: October 7, 2008

one of the motherboards in this test is the Gigabyte you are looking at, running Debian Testing.
http://global.phoronix-test-suite.co...9216-9781-1390

Quote:

Processor: AMD Phenom 9950 Quad-Core Processor @ 3.31GHz (Total Cores: 4)
Motherboard: Gigabyte Co. Ltd. GA-MA790GP-DS4H
Chipset: AMD
System Memory: 1761MB
Disk Space: 58GB
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 3300 Graphics
Screen Resolution: 1280x1024
OS: Debian testing
Kernel: 2.6.24 (x86_64)
X.Org Server: 1.4.2
OpenGL: 2.1.7659 (fglrx)
Compiler: GCC 4.3.1
File-System: reiserfs

and while they did not review that board directly they did review the chipset, and a similar board with the 790 chipset..
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...item=956&num=1
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...cs_790gx&num=1

Should give some indication..

P.S. the newer kernel in testing is probably necessary for that chipset. The 2.6.18 kernel in Etch may not support that board.. I can't say for sure though

OK, after much hair tearing, research and volumes of Java (the wet sort, not the code!), I think I'm going to go with the Abit AN78GS

That may seem odd, after I had asked about the other cards, but I just heard about this one, and in a matter of a few minutes, it seemed to tick all the boxes.

Warnings and caveats would be welcome...stop me before I do something stupid, I'm too stupid to stop myself :)

Cheers