Asus A7N8X Deluxe Success

[HeadHolio]

Just wanted to share my findings/success with this perticular motherboard. After reading every other post on these forums regarding different problems with different kernels, drivers, etc...I went ahead and started experimenting. The kernel that worked the best for me, and was the easiest to use and setup, was the gaming-sources kernel. I should also mention that I did not install Gentoo on this system from scratch. I copied it over from another Gentoo system I have hanging around. This also required that I download all necessary packages/ebuilds required for the gaming-kernel from this other system connected to the internet, and then copy them to the hard drive of the system with the Asus motherboard. This gaming-sources kernel would NOT work for me if any of the following two options were selected:

ACPI support
Frame Buffer Support

When I enabled these two options, I would get tons of bootup errors, and I could not start XFree using the Nvidia module. However, if these two options are disabled, then the kernel works flawlessly.

As for the other options, be sure to select these:

Under ethernet cards, select support for the "3c590/3c900 series (592/595/597) Vortex/Boomerang" 3com driver. I compiled this directly into the kernel (not as a module).

Under ATA support, be sure to include "AMD and nVidia IDE support".

This kernel also includes support for the NForce sound module, but I did not include it and instead emerged and installed the newest available version of ALSA (which was alsa-drvier version 0.9.2). This of course, requires that you compile sound card support as a module, which I did. Although my sound works, it's not exactly stellar. I occasionally get the odd echo noise or studder when loading programs, but it's not a big deal to me.

After compiling and booting into the new kernel, the 3Com ethernet port (the one closest to the mouse/keyboard ps2 ports) should now work and allow you to connect to the internet. I then emerged nforce-net and issued the command "modprobe nvnet" to get the second ethernet port working. Of course, I then added "nvnet" to my /etc/modules.autoload file.

One flaw that I found with this kernel is that when using a USB mouse, I cannot get my middle scroll button to work. However, if I plug in a PS2 mouse, without changing any settings, then the scroll button works. Weird huh?

Anyways, I hope this helps. If anyone finds a fix for my mouse or sound problems, please let me know. Also feel free to post your own success/failure.

[guills]

Your usb mouse problem is because you have both the ps/2 and usb mouse drivers in the kernel. recompile and remove mouse support totally under character devices. Enable input core and mouse support under input core. Enable support for USB and USB HID. /dev fs is a good idea too.

your usb mouse is going to be in /dev/input/mice