Asus A8N-SLI

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iDeJ · Post by **iDeJ** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 7:54 am

ezechiel_dantec wrote: You shouldn't use the nVidia SATA connectors, only the Silicon Image ones, if you use SATA.

what is wrong with the nvidia sATA controllers?
My Disk is plugged in at the nvidia controllers and works great !

Okay if i'm copying files my cpu loads goest beyond 100%, is this related to this?

mattjgalloway · Post by **mattjgalloway** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 11:53 am

I had that problem with my nForce 2 and it was fixed by adding pci=noapic noacpi to the boot line. Try that.

iDeJ · Post by **iDeJ** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 6:03 pm

are you sure ACPI has something to do with that, i thought it has something to do with energy saving

)

however, i've noticed that even if i only read something from my drive, my system load is incredibly high (for example when i update my portage cache), but i will try the noapic thing

pantherace · Post by **pantherace** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 2:17 am

MikeP wrote:
mattjgalloway wrote:Looks like it does!

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nfor ... -0283.html

That's an older driver, but it says:
Added support for SoundStorm (Hardware Mixing supported)
So unless they have removed support from the drivers for some reason, I guess it does have hardware mixing
The nForce 3 and 4 don't have Soundstorm...
as pantherace said, HW mixing doesn't work with his board..

Let me clarify what I said: No ALSA-supported hardware sound mixing.

It may well do hw mixing, but as of now it doesn't in ALSA. Supposedly, you can use dmix + asoundrc to get software emulation of this but so far my efforts to get it to work have not succeded.

_asc_ · Post by **_asc_** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 11:34 am

Hello,

I have an SATA disk with two NTFS partitons and some unpartitioned space which I intend to use for Gentoo connected to the nVidia SATA controller. Unfortunately, the kernel of the live-cd does not recognise my SATA drive. Since iDeJ wrote that the nVidia SATA controller works for him and I don't want to use the Silicon Image controller, I would like to know if there is a workaround for this problem.

Trying modprobe sata_nv causes the system to hang.

The Fedora Core 3 installer detects the drive, so there has to be a workaround.

Any suggestions ?

iDeJ, how did you do it?

Regards,
--Alex

kip · Post by **kip** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 3:39 pm

try the 2004.2 live-cd, worked for me ... I had problems with 2004.3, too

paulisdead · Post by **paulisdead** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 4:35 pm

_asc_ wrote:Hello,

I have an SATA disk with two NTFS partitons and some unpartitioned space which I intend to use for Gentoo connected to the nVidia SATA controller. Unfortunately, the kernel of the live-cd does not recognise my SATA drive. Since iDeJ wrote that the nVidia SATA controller works for him and I don't want to use the Silicon Image controller, I would like to know if there is a workaround for this problem.

Trying modprobe sata_nv causes the system to hang.

The Fedora Core 3 installer detects the drive, so there has to be a workaround.

Any suggestions ?

iDeJ, how did you do it?

Regards,
--Alex

I only got the 2.6.9-gentoo-r10 kernel to work with the nvidia sata on that mobo, but I had a working gentoo install already, and didn't have to use the CD to get it going on that mobo. Some other people have reported booting without apic and acpi can help too. You could plug the drive into one of the silicon image sata ports, install gentoo on there, with nv_sata built into the kernel, and then after the install plug the drive into the nvidia sata port. You could try the 2.6.9-gentoo-r10 kernel or booting without apic or acpi once you got the system on there.

racoontje · Post by **racoontje** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:37 pm

My fucking A8N-SLI doesn't do cold boots anymore.

paulisdead · Post by **paulisdead** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 2:42 am

racoontje wrote:My fucking A8N-SLI doesn't do cold boots anymore.

Ya my friend had that problem, where you gotta cut it on about like 20 times to get it to actually boot up. Then he started having cmos corruption, and he'd have to redo the cmos a lot, and eventually the bios finally crapped out on him. That mobo just doesn't feel like it was ready for release. There's a long list of reasons why I dumped this board after 2 days. My gigabyte SLI comes this friday though, and the reviews have been really good on that board and it's overclockability, so I think I'll be happy with that one. Had great luck with 2 other gigabyte A64 boards.

_asc_ · Post by **_asc_** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 1:41 pm

Thanks kip & paulisdead for your answers. Plugging the SATA drive into the Silicon Image contoller did not work either. So I have decided to take a different approach. I have plugged one of my old ATA drives into my system and installed Fedora Core 3 there. Since Fedora recognises the SATA drive, I'm going to use it to install Gentoo and for recovery purposes in case I screw things up.

gerrynjr · Post by **gerrynjr** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:51 pm

Received this board about 3 weeks ago, everything is running flawlessly. It's a Rock Solid system, with zero issues.

Running 2.6.10-gentoo-dev-sources, ~amd64

equi-NoX · Post by **equi-NoX** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 5:11 pm

I always have the same error when I launch X :

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(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
Using vt 8
(WW) ****INVALID MEM ALLOCATION**** b: 0xcc00000490000000 e: 0xcc00000497ffffff correcting
(EE) end of block range 0x8af310 < begin 0x2a95d80646

and I really don't know what to do

r3pek · Post by **r3pek** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 6:48 pm

check this bug.... http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78797
there's a patch already...

iDeJ · Post by **iDeJ** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 7:00 pm

i've disabled every ACPI/APM Feature in my bios and then did a
modprobe sata_nv, works without any troubles for me

kip · Post by **kip** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 11:38 am

kip wrote:hi,

did somebody try to use the internal usb-ports? Devices connected to these ports are not recognized by the kernel at all .... The "normal" ports work fine ...

could somebody do me a favour and check if the internal usb-ports are working? I would like to use my card reader ...

pantherace · Post by **pantherace** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 11:42 am

OK, GRAPHICS PROBLEMS FIXED.

I modified the xorg ebuild on my system to use the agressive patch (the person provided both a minimal and 'agressive' one)

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2322

This resolves:
Problems when Render is active
Xvideo issues (blank screen for me, others got garbage)
Requirement for a Software Cursor (SWCursor true or HWCursor false)
Corruption of the text console
X crashing when nvidia-settings is run

I'm filing it in Gentoo's bugzilla now. Hopefully it will be quickly marked amd64

kip · Post by **kip** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 12:06 pm

here is the modified ebuild (with agressive patch), it's compiling here right now ..

http://files.kips-world.de/ebuilds/xorg ... -r3.ebuild
http://files.kips-world.de/ebuilds/xorg ... efix.patch

kip · Post by **kip** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 12:26 pm

hmm, problem with VTs is not solved here with that patch ... but HWCursor and rendering works fine ...

pantherace · Post by **pantherace** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 12:29 pm

Composite also works well.

KDE CVS for probably the very few running it, has a new option Desktop -> Window Behavior -> Translucency Tab...

Have fun.

The implementations of Composite have much improved since they were first released. (Still have a way to go... BUT EYECANDY!

)

I did have X crash a second ago. (Xorg.0.log.old isn't that helpful about it...) So it still seems to have the same issues that I've had of it crashing (though all my prior testcases that always succeeded have been fixed.)

pantherace · Post by **pantherace** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 12:30 pm

kip wrote:hmm, problem with VTs is not solved here with that patch ... but HWCursor and rendering works fine ...

Have you restarted the machine? Try that as it fixed it for me.

kip · Post by **kip** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 1:18 pm

pantherace wrote:
kip wrote:hmm, problem with VTs is not solved here with that patch ... but HWCursor and rendering works fine ...
Have you restarted the machine? Try that as it fixed it for me.

yes, i did.

ahorn · Post by **ahorn** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 9:20 pm

thanks for the tip, kib!
now it works well.

another question: what alsa modul going to use with the a8n-sli deluxe? i dont want the oss-modul.
is there a answer right in this thread? shame on me if it is. didnt found it.

kip · Post by **kip** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 9:29 pm

ahorn wrote:another question: what alsa modul going to use with the a8n-sli deluxe? i dont want the oss-modul.
is there a answer right in this thread? shame on me if it is. didnt found it.

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root@kip /home/dennis $ lsmod | grep snd
snd_intel8x0           29184  4 
snd_ac97_codec         74848  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm                81996  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer              19976  1 snd_pcm
snd                    38384  11 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc          8456  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

ahorn · Post by **ahorn** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 10:32 pm

thx, brother.

R!tman · Post by **R!tman** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 2:07 pm

How do you guys think are the chances of getting to work a gentoo-windows-dualboot system using the onboard raid5 controller of the a8n-sli, so that both gentoo and windows are on raid5?

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