How's this for a linux journey.


ALL GOOD:
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Server:
centos 6.9 64 bit, active directory domain controller, desktop enviorment, NOT minimal, running on an Asrock 990FX Extreme3 motherboard AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 970 Processor, video card was a sapphire vaporx hd 5850 1 gig ddr5 pcie. Video was perfect movies and all.

Client Box:
Windows 10 pro 64 bit with ASUS MB M5A99X EVO R2.0 AMD FX(tm)-8320 Eight-Core Processor

centos 6.9 Monitor: "using a TV not a monitor"
Samsung UN75MU8000F 8 Series - 75" Class (74.5" viewable) LED TV
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PROBLEM STARTS HERE:

Well the sapphire video card died so I purchase a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 video card.

On the server centos 6.9 box with the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050
All was good except I would get video tearing only when watching a movie in either VLC or Plex Media player. The desktop was fine no tearing.

Solution 1:

So I decided to upgrade to centos 7.4 64 bit.

Centos 7 did not play well with the asrock mb for some reason. I had a lot of abrt errors - rsync would crash the computer when doing large backups
it was unstable but the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 worked fine no tearing at all. I ran tests all harware was fine, memory and all. and Centos 6.9 ran perfect on the Asrock mb.

Solution 2:

So I tried centos 7 on an older Dell T3400 precision workstation 64 bit that I bought, years ago on ebay used, for $129.00. I used the Dell T3400 for my workhorse for fixing computers and data recovery and whatever.

Motherboard
product: 0TP412
vendor: Dell Inc.

CPU
product: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7400 @ 2.80GHz

The Dell worked fine with centos 7 and the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050, no tearing, however the CPU could not handle 64 bit virtualization that I wanted for virtualbox. It only ran 32 bit VM's. No big deal but I wanted the best of both worlds.Also no uefi on this pc and I will go to 6tb hard drive so I need a uefi board.


Solution 3:

So I then tried centos 7 on my windows 10 pro 64 bit client box with an ASUS MB and with the new Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 video card.

description: Motherboard
product: M5A99X EVO R2.0
vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.

description: CPU
product: AMD FX(tm)-8320 Eight-Core Processor
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]



All was good abrt errors - rsync was good - videos were good too,no tearing.

Solution 4:

I had a backup ASUS MB M5A99X EVO R2.0 motherboard for my windows 10 client, so I put the ASUS mb in the centos server box, replacing the ASROCK mb
then I had to purchase the processor for the backup ASUS mb. So I bought one new on ebay for $125.99
AMD FX-8320 Black Edition 16 MB 8-Core 3.5 GHz Socket AM3+ Desktop CPU.

Now all is good. No video tearing, 64 bit VM's and stable centos 7.4
with centos 7 you can install chrome, you could not install chrome on centos 6.9. Chrome allows me to install Spotify web player.
Spotify web player won't run on my version of firefox.

I now have Plex Media Player, Spotify web player running on Chrome, and ScrapBook. I keep Firefox ver 52 or 56 because ScrapBook will not run on Firefox 59, they have ScrapBookQ, but it is not as good as the old ScrapBook IMHO.

By the way installing the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 driver for the resolution of my Samsung led TV was not a walk in the park.

Anyone out there have issues with centos 7.4 and motherboards?

Thanks

Centos 7.4 works perfectly on my oem HP z800 workstation, I just don't like it because I can't use my scanner with it: the version of sane-backends is too old. Other than that, no issues.Not tried an install on any other hardware as I don't have any, sorry.

I've got CentOS 7.4 on my machine (Intel DH55TC motherboard) and the only serious issues I've had were related to a hard drive failing, so I can't blame CentOS/Linux for that. I've got a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti video/graphics myself and it works fine for the most part, I have had tearing issues before, but of late, it doesn't seem like too much of an issue currently.

You can use the "elrepo" repository to upgrade your kernel to the latest, from the "mainline" series.