this mobo have good linux support?

[blobaugh]

i'm looking to get a new motherboard but i want to make sure that it will work good with linux without spending a bunch of money. i dont really need the builting sound and eth cause i have pci cards so im not worried about that too much. mostly the chipset

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-128-257&depa=0

here's the vid card too, in a previous post i was told it was a great card
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=14-139-149&catalog=23&manufactory=BROWSE

planning on setting up a dual video workstation. eventually i want dual procs. i had one before, but it didnt work properly

[Ehwaz001]

Should work without much trouble...
Do you know somebody who has this setup or the mobo/video card so you could test is it works OK. You can always try it with a LiveCD version (preferably is this live version is from the same distro that you want to use on the PC)

[blobaugh]

nope i don't know anyone that has this setup. i was told the vid card rock in linux though, and i figured that the mobo would be fine, i was just putting it out there incase anyone here has had bad experiences with it

[StarTiger]

Do yourself a favor, find yourself an ASUS board. I've yet to find one that won't work with linux.

THe're a bit more in price, but they are by far the most reliable stable.

[hard candy]

Asus Anti-linux Attitude- MozillaQuest (http://www.mozillaquest.com/Linux04/Asus_Sucks_Story-01.html)

[endoalpha]

I am not sure about the motherboard, you may have to install modules from the nvidia website to get full use of the board.

The graphics card will work fine, (again with the binary modules supplied from nvidia). It is a geforce 4 MX series though. You would get better performance from a geforce 3.

[freakmn]

Actually, the mx4000 is the mx version of the Geforce FX series. I don't know offhand how the performance is, but after my experiences with a GeForce mx420, I personally avoid the mx line. It's a decent card, unless you want to play the newest games. It struggled on a few games, so I went to the GeForce FX line. This may be different, and the specs say the clock speed is a little higher than the FX5200, but the feature set is lower.

In reference to the article that hardcandy linked to, I read it, and it seemed that the complaint was that they don't support Linux. It seems that most motherboard companies don't do that, but I've never had a problem with that. A search for Linux on their site (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=linux+site%3Awww.asus.com&btnG=Search) gives over 200 results. In my opinion, they give a reasonable amount of support. In my experience, most motherboard functions work on an install with most modern distros. I did have a little trouble installing SourceMage (www.sourcemage.org) on an intel sata raid array, but I managed to get it working, with a few kernel patches. For most standard uses, I have not run into any problems on account of the motherboard.

[StarTiger]

In reply to hardcandy's site:

Nexttime, please refrence one that has a bit more facts and not so much personal opinion. That's rather embarassing that anyone would stoop that dumb to not see an additude with that page.

anyway, My Asus experance, what ever isn't supported right away after install is included on their driver cd and works just fine. That and their reputation for speed and reliability, I don't see any reason not to buy another one.

I've worked with dosens of different model of boards and hundreds of actual systems, and they have by far the fewest problems of any mobo I've worked with.

[endoalpha]

Originally posted by freakmn
Actually, the mx4000 is the mx version of the Geforce FX series. I don't know offhand how the performance is, but after my experiences with a GeForce mx420, I personally avoid the mx line. It's a decent card, unless you want to play the newest games. It struggled on a few games, so I went to the GeForce FX line. This may be different, and the specs say the clock speed is a little higher than the FX5200, but the feature set is lower.


nope... it's a version of the geforce4 mx series. http://www.nvidia.com/page/geforce4mx.html

[freakmn]

My bad, I guess I've been misinformed.

[00TWINE]

Asus has no Linux support?

My current Asus mobo works fine in linux (both slackware and peanut) and the mobo I'm buying tommorow (the P4P800 SE) has linux support right in its download section!

http://www.asus.com/support/download/item.aspx?ModelName=P4P800%20SE&Type=All