Fedora Supported Motherboards - AMD64 Based

[Melio]

AMD 64 3000+ Processor

MSI K8T Neo-FIS2R Motherboard (http://www.msicomputer.com/product/detail_spec/product_detail.asp?model=K8T_Neo-FIS2R)
http://www.msicomputer.com/product/mb_image/MS-6702_large.jpg
VIA K8T800 chipset + VIA VT8237

• 800/600/400/200 MHz FSB, AMD Next Generation CPU, Socket 754

• Ultra DMA 66/100/133, 3 DIMM of DDR266/333/400* up to 2GB

• ATX Form Factor, 5 PCI, AGP 4x/8x, 8 USB 2.0

• Serial ATA RAID 0, 1 (SB), Serial ATA RAID 0, 1, 0+1, ATA 133 RAID (Promise), IEEE 1394, 10/100/1000 LAN, 6-ch audio


Sound and lan works perfectly with fedora core 1!

Have not used SATA or RAID functions of this motherboard yet with fedora (probably never will, unless sata drives become larger and cheaper soon)

[YourDoom123]

is that the only mobo? if so i am extremely lucky!!

[Melio]

No, there's several motherboards for the amd64 and fx type processors. I was hoping those with them would post specs on the boards so others could use this as a reference so they know what's available and what works with fedora :)

[ewdi]

with SATA it does not even load the installer :(

[Bana]

I guess I will put my motherboard here (although it doesn't work too well)

Chaintech ZNF3-150 NForce 3 Based Motherboard

IDE, usb, firewire, and gigabit lan all work flawlessly.
Silicon Image 3114 Raid SATA controller works after a custom compiled kernel with support for SilSATARaid using the Libata drivers.
Via Envy 24PT Onboard SoundYes! After some work with the ALSA devs, as of Alsa 1.0.5 this chip is now supported.
Card Readers- Can't get CF to work although I think one (or more) works (due to dmesg) yet I don't have the media to test it.
General Stability: :) Check plus, no major crashes.
Install: :) Flawless except doesn't install on SATA drives.

Overall I can't recommend this board as the sound is absolutely KILLING me (with frustration), when I get that resolved then perhaps I will recommend it.

[ewdi]

I would recommend Asus SK8N, it's pretty decent, but you will need to worka bit for the SATA to work with fedora c1

[twgray]

Is there a howto for customizing the installation cd? I would like to add the patch for siI3512 SATA.

[lauterm]

If you want SATA at install time you might want to try a Chaintech VNF3-250. It is an NForce3 based mobo.

Complete Specs (http://www.chaintechusa.com/tw/eng/product_spec.asp?MPSNo=13&PISNo=276v)

Quick Specs:
nForce3 250
3 184 pin DDR DIMMs up to 2GB
5 PCI slots
onboard 5.1
4x/8x AGP
2 ATA66/100/133 channels
up to 6 USB2.0 (4 built-in)
onboard LAN RTL8100C 10/100Mb Ethernet
supports 2 Serial ATA devices with RAID 0/1

Mine works very well with FC2 for x86_64. I only reboot it when I want to load a new kernel. The sound and LAN worked from the start in stock FC2. I installed directly to my Serial ATA drive. Plus the board was cheap. :cool:

There is also a more expensive ZNF3-250. It also has firewire, Gb LAN, up to 4 Serial ATA devices, and onboard 7.1 sound. I haven't tried it though.

[rmdnet]

Hi,

I installed FC3 Final on a Gigabyte GA-K8VT800 and it detected everything perfectly. However, I didn't try SATA, my HDD is ATA 133. Is a cheap mobo and works great with Fedora.

For more information: http://www.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Products/Products_GA-K8VT800.htm

Bye

Rmdnet

[dtdark]

AMD64 3500
Asus A8V Deluxe

everything is supported, but i havent installed on the sata disk. you need sata bootrom enabled in the bios for linux to use the sata disks.

[sornen]

Gigabyte K8NSNXP-939
I had some problems to start with because I installed the memory as dual channel when it wasn't:rolleyes: . My SATA drive works well, but I haven't got two hard drives so I havent tested the RAID capabilities.

The only problems seem to be with the updates which caused errors in the gnome desktop
But I reinstalled some packages and did (as suggested elsewhere)
su -c /etc/cron.daily/prelink
which appears to have fixed the problem.

Yes SATA needs to be turned on in the bios and then FC3 has no problem recognising the SATA drive.

[john.leonard]

I'm running FC3, AMD 3200+, on an ASUS KV8 SE Deluxe using both SATA/RAID controllers.

I (finally) got RAID1/SATA working AOK on FC3. For a variety of reasons, it doesn't work out of the box, but with a bit of tweeking, I now have a /boot partition running on a SATA RAID1, and a volume group spanning two RAID1 arrays.

See the following thread in the HOWTO forum:

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=26912

Also, for a nice tutorial on RAID, see:

http://www.acnc.com/04_01_01.html

[vi11an]

Ive recently purchased two 248 Opterons and a Tyan K8W.. Has anyone had any luck with these running Fedora Core 3.. Im new to 64bit anything, and so far choosing an OS has been the hardest part.. Ive downloaded Windows XP 64bit to test it, but Id really prefer a linux solution for the setup.. (I run Fedora on most of my machines, Gentoo on the ones I can actually get Gentoo to work on) :P

[jpmills]

Athlon 64 3200+
1 GB Corsair
Asus A8V Deluxe
2 x Seagate 80GB SATA
WD 120GB SE PATA

Installed WinXP First on the first SATA HD then FC3 on second SATA. CHanged the boot order in the Bios. Couldn't get the first SATA HD to be the second recognized, it had the WD as second when the second SATA HD was first. So I had to use map (2,0) (0,2) in grub instead of the usual (1,0)..... Everything worked, don't about audio I use an Audigy 2 ZS which works fine. Haven't installed the Nvidia driver yet for my FX5700.

[Eric R. Jensen]

Silicon Image 3114 Raid SATA controller works after a custom compiled kernel with support for SilSATARaid using the Libata drivers.


Hey Bana, I've been looking everywhere for 3114 SATA Raid drivers, but have only been finding them without raid functionality. Did you get raid working and if so which patch did you use? If I can get this working I will create a driver disk to allow for installation onto the controller while in raid mode.

Thanks,
Eric

[ldormon]

OK I've a Gigabyte K8N Pro with a 3200+

I'm having nothing but problems with it, I've just upgraded it to FC3 after it final gave up the ghost in FC2 and wouldn't boot streaming sata errors (maybe the drive is also on the way out?) But whats really getting my goat are the usb ports, constant "control timeout on ep0in" errors, the thing takes 10mins to reboot as it curns thru these errors.

It now hangs when I try and enter the bios as well.

Has anyone got a working one of these? I'm getting the kinda feeling this one may have gone tits up :(

Cheers
Lee

[benv84]

i've got a K8NS Pro with a socket 754 3200+ and i've had no problems with it at all. i don't have an SATA drive so i can't comment on that problem, but i've had no USB problems at all. it could just be a bad board. what BIOS are you using?

[JLF_65]

OK I've a Gigabyte K8N Pro with a 3200+

I'm having nothing but problems with it, I've just upgraded it to FC3 after it final gave up the ghost in FC2 and wouldn't boot streaming sata errors (maybe the drive is also on the way out?) But whats really getting my goat are the usb ports, constant "control timeout on ep0in" errors, the thing takes 10mins to reboot as it curns thru these errors.

It now hangs when I try and enter the bios as well.

Has anyone got a working one of these? I'm getting the kinda feeling this one may have gone tits up :(

Cheers
Lee

Most SATA implementations don't work in FC2 because of a bug in the IDE driver (it tries to take control of the SATA controller when the SATA driver already has it which leads to lost interrupts). FC3 is needed for SATA on most systems. I have a VIA K8T800 based mobo that shows this problem.

The "control timeout on ep0in" messages are a known bug in the 2.6 kernels. It gets worse with each revision. There's LOTS of reports of this on bugzilla. It occurs almost randomly on mice, keyboards, memsticks, graphics tablets, etc. My graphics tablet gives these errors, so I can no longer use it. Fortunately nothing else gives this error on my system.

So I don't think anything is wrong with your system. You are just running into known bugs in the kernel.

[Puggs]

Ive recently purchased two 248 Opterons and a Tyan K8W.. Has anyone had any luck with these running Fedora Core 3.. Im new to 64bit anything, and so far choosing an OS has been the hardest part.. Ive downloaded Windows XP 64bit to test it, but Id really prefer a linux solution for the setup.. (I run Fedora on most of my machines, Gentoo on the ones I can actually get Gentoo to work on) :P

FC3 works fine on this system, if you don't want hardware raid and you have the latest BIOS update (at least 8.0.0.10).

I have 2 x 246 and 1 gig ram, and it is very quick.

Win XP 64bit RC1 won't reconise the SATA drives so that wont install, but XP 32bit works fine.

my system is much faster than my P4 HT 3.0ghz with 1gig ram so i highly recomend the opteron system, in perticular systems with the Tyan boards.

Puggs

[multiboot]

Gigabyte K8NS Ultra 939
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
512MB DDR2
Nvidia 250 (all set to default settings)
GForce 5500FX OC
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Did not use ATA I'm running 3 ATA133 drives and a CDRW
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Worked right the first time Lan, Sound, Network, USB, Firewire...
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I sort of hope the ATA drives fail so I can get SATA drives :-O
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Multiboot

[multiboot]

oops!
Did not use SATA I'm running 3 ATA133 drives and a CDRW

[heitkergm]

I'm successfully running FC3 x86-64 on a Sun Java Workstation w1100z (I bought it cheap on Sun's eBay store - delivered for less than half of their buy-it-now price). It has Opteron 144, 1GB, Ultra 100/133 drives, DVD-CDRW. Okay, I added 512 MB RAM and a Ultra 133 drive (250GB on sale at Staples).

It does have an nvidia Quadro NVS 280 graphics card. The recommended nvidia procedure to install their accelerated driver worked flawlessly on the 2.6.9 kernels; I had to resort to using their Linux forum (http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14) in order to patch their driver to get it working on the 2.6.10 kernel.

The only issues are with trying to get my Palm Tungsten T2 sync'd over USB - but that works A-OK on serial. I used pilot-xfer in each case. Leads me to believe that their may be some error on my part; I also get the sense that the USB support for Palm devices is not as robust as it could be.

[Mossy]

Ive recently purchased two 248 Opterons and a Tyan K8W.. Has anyone had any luck with these running Fedora Core 3.. Im new to 64bit anything, and so far choosing an OS has been the hardest part.. Ive downloaded Windows XP 64bit to test it, but Id really prefer a linux solution for the setup.. (I run Fedora on most of my machines, Gentoo on the ones I can actually get Gentoo to work on) :P

I have FC2 "server" installs on:

Arima HDAMA (2x244)
Tyan K8SR (S2881) (2x242)
Tyan K8W (S2885) (2x242)

FC3 "server" installs on:

Tyan K8S (S2850) (148)

[mismajor99]

Well, I recently installed FC3 and it works flawlessly. I use a single sata drive (80mb) for the FC3 installation on the VIA raid chipset, and another SATA disk (130mb)on the Promise Fasttrak raid chipset for my Win XP Pro install. I use GRUB for my dual boot and worked without problems. I gave up on raid with windows due to so many problems and not that much gain in performance. Both my OS's run great. I haven't tried using a raid configuration for linux but i do know that during install, it picked up both my raid controllers without any problem.

I'm a linux newbie so I was very pleased to get Fedora Core up and running. Sound video and dvd-rw and my 3com lan driver all work better then windows , :) It has been a week since I booted up linux and I haven't loaded my XP pro up once. :)

I also have the ASUS K8N-E deluxe and I had numerous problems with that board. For the life of me i couldn't get the network controller to load, and it felt very laggy compared to the K8V deluxe. I'm still happy with the K8N-E board for windows, but I don't have enough knowledge in linux yet to get it working properly.

--Shawn

[Puggs]

Yes FC3 will see seperate drives on a SATA (Raid) controler, but it will not see a single Raid Drive that is made up of 1 or more drives. If you had 2 drives in your Raid configuration, then FC3 would see 2 single drives. etc. etc.

[Shadow Skill]

Does anyone know if FC3 64 will work with this motherboard http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-152-049&depa=1 I can't even get into the rescue mode with regular fc3 and the 32bit version apparently does work with 64bit hardware just like windows..sigh

[blammo]

Yea, I got my eye on an ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe. It's based on the nForce 4 chipset with almost the same specs as the Chaintech. These look like awesome boards with the latest stuff like PCI-express and SATA. It would be a shame if Fedora64 won't run on these.

[Shadow Skill]

At least I will be able to install xp pro 64 bit soon I hope....I really want this thing to be running at its full potential since at the moment I'm basically using half power and don't really notice a speed difference. Although it seems that text is much clearer with my sweet new ati x600 pro.

Off topic does anyone know of the effects of using Windows xp pro 64 bit and Linux?

[Puggs]

At least I will be able to install xp pro 64 bit soon I hope....I really want this thing to be running at its full potential since at the moment I'm basically using half power and don't really notice a speed difference. Although it seems that text is much clearer with my sweet new ati x600 pro.

Off topic does anyone know of the effects of using Windows xp pro 64 bit and Linux?

If you intend to install XP 64 on SATA drives, make sure you have a 64bit drivers for the card, 32 drivers shiped with most M/B don't work...

[Shadow Skill]

uncool good thing I am not planning on installing to SATA's as I dont have a single sata hdd yet. :) Thanks for the heads up though Puggs.

[lauterm]

Shadow Skill,
What problems exactly are you having with FC3? The only problems I have seen are it not recognizing some SATA drives and /or controllers. I have a Chaintech ZNF3-250 that works with the 2.6.10 kernels. The earlier kernels SATA drivers didn't handle my Seagate SATA drive correctly.

[cybrjackle]

MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum
AMD64 3200+
1GB PC3200 Corsair XMS Extreme Memory
BFG Geforce 6800GT 256MB
2x160GB sata RAID 1
Audigy 2 ZS
FC3 x86_64

Works great! Today, FedEx will be dropping of another Gig of the same ram and 2xSeagate 80 GB Barracuda 7200RPM SATA with NCQ Hard

Hard Drives (http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-148-040&catalog=23&manufactory=BROWSE&depa=1)

RAM (http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-145-450&catalog=23&manufactory=BROWSE&depa=1)

Down side is I have to re-install because I want to use the 80's for a raid1 for /boot / swap /usr /usrlocal /opt /tmp /var and the 160's for a raid1 /home /whatever

Upside, it's just a bad arse box! With a bad arse distro!

[jcliburn]

Abit AV8 K8T800 Pro (socket 939)
Athlon 64 3000+
Rosewill Nvidia GeForce FX 5200/256
Rosewill DDR PC3200 (2x512MB)
WD Caviar 80 GB 7200 rpm

Runs kernel 2.6.10-1.760_FC3 x86_64 just fine.

Wrestled a bit with the nvidia drivers (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-6629-pkg2), but succeeded in the end.

Had to fall back to 32-bit Firefox 1.0 because no matter what I did I couldn't get j2re 1.4.02_06 to register as a plugin with Firefox 64-bit.