Re: K8 Mainboard addition
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 12:26:45AM +0200, In The Night wrote:
> Mobo : Abit AN8 Ultra (NForce4 Ultra)
> ATA : amd74xx
> SATA : sata_nv
> Sound : intel8x0
> Network : forcedeth
>
> Installed with the 2.6.12 Len Sorensen installer - Thanks for the great work....
>
> Other hardware running smoothly:
> Pinnacle PCTV Pro : bttv, msp3400
> Logitech quickcam express : spca5xx (Thanks to Michel Xhaard for making this module)
> HP PSC 2610 (MemoryCardreader,Scanner and Printer working - Fax not working)
> HighPoint Rocket 1520 : hpt366
> Nvidia 7800GT : A _big_ thanx to the debian people which made module-assistant.
No kidding. What a wonderful little tool. Especially the a-i option.
> Athlon64 3800+ X2 : Finally smp@home at an affordable price.
>
> Couple of things which are of small annoyance:
> 1. Abit hasn't released any spec on the uGuru chip, but I have found some small program to atleast read the sensors. It would be _so_ nice to do realtime OC'ing.
> 2. SATA spindown is broken, atleast I believe so when reading the kernel lists and hearing my 4 SATA disk spinning on full spaad all day long.
I know the libata developers are working on adding support for sending
low level commands to sata disks for things like smart monitoring and
spin down and such. I am fairly sure it isn't supported yet.
> 3. Sound cannot be captured directly from the PCTV Pro using btaudio - because of "bad wiring"?
Ehm, input muted on sound card maybe? No idea.
> 4. The hardware sound controls on my USB-headset (a Plantronics GameCom Pro) is not working - alsamixer works fine...
Well if the headset follows usb sound standards for the audio part, it
will work fine. Any buttons on it are likely proprietary and would need
a driver written to handle them. That probably isn't a standard part of
the usb audio specification.
> 5. My Plextor DVD-burner hickups sometimes usning mkisofs/growisofs - reports busy device or something like that.
Do you have the latest firmware on the drive? My plextors work great,
although I did have a hickup early on with one of them when using older
firmware. A firmware update fixed that. Fortunately that can be done
from linux.
> A couple of questions:
> 1. I'm thinking of buying a SATA controller to put in one of the PCI Express X1 slots. Chipset is SiL3132. Is the support OK in recent kernels?
It is not supported in 2.6.8 or 2.6.12. It has experimental support in
the libata patch for 2.6.13-rc7 though. Not sure if it is included in
any released kernel yet.
> 2. I'm thinking of changing the PCTV Pro to a Hauppauge! WinTV PVR500 MCE. Anyone know if the support in ivtv is OK for this card?
Well so far I have heard great things for the 250 and 350 in ivtv. If
the 500 really is just 2 x 250 on one card, I would imagine ivtv should
work with it to, but I have not heard from anyone with a 500 card yet so
I don't know.
Len Sorensen
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