Is This Hardware Supported?

[Evilguru]

My current set-up has just gone and died on me. So, I am looking at replacing it with a new motherboard, RAM, GPU and CPU.

I am currently looking at an:
Intel Core 2 DUO E6600
ASUS P5B
2Gb of Geil PC2-6400
and an Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT

Is this hardware supported? I know that chances are that most of it is, but am unsure about the motherboard (often you get things such as network adapters and S-ATA chips not supported).

I have seen a Wiki article on the P5B Deluxe version of the board but am not sure if it applies.

Regards, Freddie.

[przemos]

There is nothing in your new configuration that might be unsupported under linux. ram, cpu, nvidia - impossible not to be unsupported Motherboard from ASUS - in 99,999% is supported.

[supernov]

Well, probably, but my 2006.1 livecd or even the latest stable kernel won't boot after the first microsecond it starts with booting, it just freezes the entire system with a black screen. Same problem for Ubuntu and Fedora, didn't try other distro's. Got a running Gentoo now by using the latest mm-gentoo kernel.

My specs:

- Asus P5W DH Deluxe
- e6600 at 3.2 MHz
- 1 Gb. Corsair pc5400 mem
- ati x1600 xt gfx card
- 2 sata-Samsung silent-point harddisks

I was rather disappointed that this happened, since Windows has no problems whatsoever, and I don't like giving Windows credits. Probably something to do with a hardware-component needed in the very beginning of the boot-process which isn't or not correctly supported in todays kernels.

[Vulpes_]

I had no problem booting the x86_64 minimal installCD on my Gigabyte P965-DS4! However, the current stable 2.6.28-r4 gentoo-sources is buggy considering the P965 AHCI SATA-support: it is damn slow, especially at boot. The ~amd64 2.6.19-r2 kernel has no such problems, and - unlike to the 2.6.18 kernel - it even has support for the JMicron RAID chip! Intel HD Audio is also supported by gentoo-sources, out of the box, just like Realtek LAN. This latter has downloadable drivers from Realtek, too. Nvidia has binary drivers for Xorg, but it is included in Portage. Maybe it will need a little bit of wizardry to get the system work, but it shall not be too difficult.

[esperto]

look for the messages of kerneloftruth in this forum, he did a minimal cd with the latest kernel versions (for x86 and amd64), and should do the trick, you should try use "all-generic-ide" kernel parameter at boot time with other distros, worked for me yesterday when I installed mandriva 2007.

good luck

[Evilguru]

So I just need to user kerneloftruths install CD, and just do a normal install, except that I need to emerge the mm-sources, or the latest (2.6.19?) sources so that there is support for the IDE controller. All seems good to me, thanks.