MSI 965 Neo, Unable to install FC6
Marcel Janssen
korgull at home.nl
Tue Feb 13 21:46:09 UTC 2007
On Tuesday 13 February 2007 01:12, Teo Fonrouge wrote:
> As a kind of answer. I have installed several dozens of linux boxes
> (starting with the rogue Red Hat 5 a few years ago) and I dont remember
> another mobo with the same level of intolerance to linux as this MSI model.
I think you are quite right about that, this mainboard is certainly one to
avoid.
Fortunately today I managed to get it running and although I see some issues
in dmesg (mainly IRQ related I think), I can use the box for what I intend to
do.
Regarding installation I needed the "noapic" option.
Regarding booting Fedora, I needed the 2.6.19 kernel in order to get the
onboard Realtek network adaptor to work (using the r1000 driver) and I need
to boot the kernel with the options "noapic acpi=no irqpoll"
I also noticed that the nvidia card which I have installed (7600) didn't work
during install (displaying rubbish) although anaconda detected it fine. I had
to install using "linux text". After installing the nvidia drivers from
ATrpms, things worked fine in twinview setup. Since I didn't have network
capability after the installation I had to use a USB drive to get all
necessary RPMS to the box. Fortunately USB worked :-)
After a few hours of testing the box, I think it's fine enough for me to use.
Since things work fairly well using kernel 2.6.19 I think it's not necessary
at the moment to look for new main boards, so I will keep using them for now.
Regards,
Marcel
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