AW: [mythtv-users] Anyone using the ASUS A7N8X-X motherboard?

[Tim Tait]

Torsten Schenkel wrote:

>Am Di, den 15.06.2004 schrieb r.oth um 22:04:
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>>Am Montag, 14. Juni 2004 15:44 schrieb Mike Drons:
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>>>Any known issues with the ASUS A7N8X-X motherboard?  I am considering 
>>>upgrading my motherboard and CPU.
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>>I'm working on this MoBo (Suse8.2), it's quite good!
>>But I don't know if the SATA and Gigabit-Lan is working!
>>And I need the "noapic and acpi=off" bootoptions, otherwise I've some 
>>probs with the LAN!
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>There are several revisions of the NForce2 in the wild, some (the older
>ones) will run with apic enabled.
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>I have two workstations which I bought when there was no info about it
>except one thread on the kernel mailing list :-). The test system had
>the chipset revision that worked. The second was a PITA to debug.
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>My solution: Kernel with APIC and LAPIC disabled. Since 2.4.25 or 26
>there is a boot option for lapic, so the rebuild isn't necessary.
>Options: noapic nolapic
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>The APIC has some flaws, but generally works (powerbutton is fine,
>that's all I use) so you can delete the acpi=off option.
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>Don't use athcool with i/o heavy applications like myth. There a race
>condition somewhere that get's triggered when the cpu is disconnected.
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>Torsten
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I only use athcool to turn *off* the "CPU Disconnect" as my BIOS (AU13) 
does not let me do it.

Tim