From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GTfWt-0000CR-5U for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 30 Sep 2006 14:09:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8UE8DZi003656; Sat, 30 Sep 2006 14:08:13 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.174]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8UE39Fv024876 for ; Sat, 30 Sep 2006 14:03:09 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id p27so360901ugc for ; Sat, 30 Sep 2006 07:03:09 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=FfbIWB6QaEeQ8OPCqYJszGKfRy9CS/oRL05AqkswnsBZgWMZvYC+2xaLYCO8hnqkkSQ5Oo9EOsA5i2orx7NeSXt0oUvSm2Toh9dEylKkQ08HzLrXpq2tYzoo4cSxNXaCuSjJbzIO9d4KX1k03Ro0095caTg518OAzaWaRAg7JZc= Received: by 10.67.101.8 with SMTP id d8mr3490193ugm; Sat, 30 Sep 2006 07:03:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.21.16 with HTTP; Sat, 30 Sep 2006 07:03:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <64e8d2f20609300703v5eda9e51t29d7882cbb869ff3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 10:03:09 -0400 From: "Ryan Sims" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] JMicron confusion In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <64e8d2f20609291228h3dbb57e3mfdec5ba0f8fcc15d@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 3af6ed3c-6a55-4dad-b3f3-c30917df280c X-Archives-Hash: 56963aa3e4d92dfdf52254e8b25c2d24 On 9/30/06, Duane Griffin wrote: > On 29/09/06, Ryan Sims wrote: > > I'm looking at upgrading to a Core 2 Duo system, and looking at the > > Asus P5B series of motherboards. I've found a couple forum posts > > (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-494387-highlight-p965.html and > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-498160-highlight-p965.html) that > > seem to indicate troubles with JMicron support in kernels. Is this > > something I should be concerned about? The forum discussions seem to > > indicate that the problem is unresolved, indicating to me that I > > should look elsewhere for motherboards. > > I'm running gentoo on exactly this setup. There was some trouble with > support for the controller prior to 2.6.18, however it all works just > fine if you use the "all-generic-ide irqpoll" boot parameters. Doesn't the all-generic-ide line prevent you from using DMA and such? The two objections I've seen to that is that it restricts the speed, and also renames the drives to hd* instead of sd*, so things would get switched around if I ever got to drop that parameter. > Another issue you might run into is getting the onboard RTL8168 > ethernet controller working. There is no in-kernel driver for this > thing. I managed to get the vendor-supplied driver compiling, but > isn't working correctly for me (it seems to be transmitting packets > fine but not receiving anything). I've not looked into it much since > there seems to be in-kernel support coming soon and I've got another > ethernet controller card to use in the meantime. There are also lots > of reports from people getting it working successfully, so it may just > be something stupid I'm doing. > Cheers, > Duane. Yes, I'm seeing that, too. I think at this point I'm looking into other motherboards. -- Ryan W Sims () ascii ribbon /\ campaign - against html mail - against proprietary attachments -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list