Linked by Robert Minvielle on Tue 16th Dec 2003 20:00 UTC
This is the second installment of the "Linux on the Opteron, are we ready?" article. Basically, it is a "where are we now?" article, noting that what once did work now does not, and others that did not work now do. The first article was published on OSNews almost three months ago. Since that time not too much has happened publicly in regards to the amd64 Linux situation, but a lot of people mailed to tell me that I should have checked out SuSE or the new Mandrake which was "about to be released" at that time. Also since that time I have upgraded the RAM and acquired a larger hard disk for the machine. I will give a brief rundown of the system as it stands now, what I tried to install on it, and what works.
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[quote]I'd guess all the problems experienced are due to the ASUS motherboard and its shoddy BIOS/poor engineering.
Every ASUS motherboard I have owned (ASUS A7Pro, CUPLE-VM, A7N8X) has required BIOS upgrades to work correctly, onboard peripherals diabled, exhibited lockups and have just generally been a pretty poor experience 'out of the box'
Sure, after you put in 20 hours work or so hunting for information on how to work around these issues and upgrading BIOSes multiple times, the boards can be made to run relatively stably.
But ASUS, as far as I am concerned, don't produce quality linux-ready boards, so if you buy their rubbish, expect to have to waste hours fixing their problems.
My latest board, the A78NX 'Deluxe' gives me massive disk corruption under a 2.4 kernel and locks up at least once a day under either 2.4 or 2.6 if APIC/ACPI is enabled.
booting the kernel with 'noapic nolapic acpi=off' seems to give me stability, but why should I have to run with these features diabled - ASUS are clowns. [/quote]
Sorry to hear you have issues with your boards, but I wish to point out that along with Tyan, Asus has and continues to produce the best consumer boards on the market. I strongly suggest you look in the mirror for the source of your problems.