Comments on: Asus M2N-E vs. Kubuntu Edgy

By: edwind

edwind — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:43:19 +0000

hi, i just want to know if you still have problems with this MB in ubuntu. I work in ubuntu 8.04 and i want to buy this MB but dont wanna have so many problems. Can you help me?

thanks in advance
Greetings from Venezuela
Edwind

By: Tobias

Tobias — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:46:39 +0000

Hallo Micha,

kann ich Dir leider nichts zu sagen, da ich’s nicht getestet habe. Hot-Swapping bzw. Hot-Plugging würde ich im Normalfall auch selten einem Onboard-Chip anvertrauen, da wäre ein ordentlicher RAID-Controller von 3Ware oder dergleichen schon eher angebracht.

Sollte ich die nächsten Tage allerdings noch eine S-ATA-Platte in die Finger bekommen, kann ich es ja einfach mal ausprobieren. Was soll schon schiefgehen?

By: Micha

Micha — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:33:17 +0000

Hallo,

Ich wollte fragen ob Sata hotplug mit diesem Mainboard funktioniert?
Also ob beim einstecken einer sata Festplatte, udev Signale vom Kernel bekommt.
Als Modul müsste ja sata_nv eingebunden sein.?

Angeblich sollen alle nForce Chipsätze hotplug unterstützen.
Ich habe aber leider schon die Erfahrung gemacht, dass es trotzdem nicht funktioniert. (nVidia Crush Chipsatz (ich glaube nForce 430) in einem Asus Pundit).

Vielen Dank

Micha

By: Tobias

Tobias — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:11:54 +0000

Since I had still trouble with the onboard sound with feisty now being final, I tried a different approach an compiled alsa manually, which worked just fine.
I used this howto
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=406676

Now everythings seems to be working fine again.

By: Tobias

Tobias — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 07:19:20 +0000

Hi Scott,

I am having a few troubles with the onboard sound myself currently. Since updating to feisty fawn analog material isn’t mixed on SPDIF through pcm.default, so my configuration seems also not to be ideally, but I am working on that

Currently I am neither using a ~/.asoundrc nor /etc/asound.conf – so I could be offering is kubuntu’s /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf if you like to.

By: Scott Larson

Scott Larson — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 23:49:24 +0000

I have an odd problem with the onboard sound. mplayer can play straight PCM or downmixed AC3 through the SPDIF out but if I use the -ac hwac3 option, I get nothing but noise, kind of like if you sent AC3 data straight to a PCM output. I’ve been using two Sound Blaster cards (an Audigy and a Live 5.1) in the motherboard with no problems at all (good thing it has three PCI 2.2 slots). I’m using the latest alsa (14rc3).

Could you share your .asound file? Maybe there’s a trick in there.

By: Tobias

Tobias — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 06:07:32 +0000

Great, that you got it working. I personally am no friend of recompiling the kernel myself, I leave that to the experts. Any time I tried it, I ended up having a kernel that was even less functional than the one installed by default. And running debian/ubuntu-based distributions you even can upgrade from 2.4 to 2.6 without serious problems. Granted, my last try in compiling a self-made kernel where back in the 2.4-days when I wasn’t that familiar with everything.

By: Mike O.

Mike O. — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:00:06 +0000

Hello again,

Sorry for all the posts in a row.
It turned out to be me not including plug and play PCI support, and a few other things. I also had to select the correct USB device drivers to get USB working. There was also a Radeonfb that I disabled, but I can’t seem to find it again.
All in all, it works very well now.

Hopefully everyone can learn from my mistake, and to comb through the kernel menuconfig completely. Backing up the .config file when you get something working is something I recomend doing. Also, you don’t have to run make mrproper every time, since doing so deletes the .config file. Just copy the .config file to your home dir when you have it the way you like. That way you can copy it back, when it comes to upgrade your kernel again.

I also do believe the BIOS update helped out, since I wasn’t getting very far with the original BIOS.

Anyways, cheers for having this blog on your site.
I’m happy to say, that as of early this morning (around 4am), I have a working AM2 based linux box!

Regards,
Mike.

By: Mike O.

Mike O. — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 04:31:40 +0000

I found out my problem.
It was my OLD pci radeon 7000 64mb card. Some how I haven’t compiled the drivers for it correctly. If I don’t fix it tonight, then I might go buy one from either NCIX.com or memoryexpress (local). I figure I could use a new one anyways.

Ayways, thanks for your suggestions so far.

Cheers,
Mike.

By: Mike O.

Mike O. — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:40:05 +0000

Hi Tobias,
Yes, I’ve got the latest BIOS from Asus website yesterday. (0807).

Funny, with the kubuntu 6.06 livecd, the onboard gigabit nic works fine. But I need to know which module is being used to make it work. All the precompiled slackware kernels I have tried so far do not work. I also need to compile in support for SMP, so both of the CPU cores work.
My m-audio revolution 7.1 sound card appears to be working so far.

Any ideas as to how I find out which kernel module to include so the onboard network works? Or what driver I need to download and use? I’ve been doing some poking around in google, but I haven’t found anything to download.

Thanks again,
Mike.