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ankerman
10-22-2007, 08:45 AM
Hi,

I just bought this board with an Athlon 64 X2 6000+ processor, and wanted to run it with an Asus Nvidia 8500GT PCI-e video card under Linux (SLES10-SP1). Unfortunately I cannot get the driver for the video card to work - it complains about interrupts not being received by the kernel module. It is an ACPI problem, and I cannot fix this.

So I decided to return the video card, and choose a new one. Since my machine is going to be a server anyway, I do not need the high end but I would like it to work properly.

What cards are known to work properly with this board? I do have a preference for Nvidia, but this is not set in stone.

So, what do you guys recommend?
mlau
10-22-2007, 12:48 PM
If at all possible do a BIOS and a kernel update first. The IRQ issues are either board or kernel related, and chances are that a newer kernel/BIOS have these issues fixed. It is most certainly NOT a problem with the GFX card.
ankerman
10-22-2007, 02:28 PM
Unfortunately, I have already the latest BIOS installed, and do not want to upgrade my kernel. Thanks for the tip though.

I have installed my ancient Matrox Millenium 8MB in the meantime, works like a charm :-)
mlau
10-22-2007, 02:39 PM
Unfortunately, I have already the latest BIOS installed, and do not want to upgrade my kernel. Thanks for the tip though.

Then you might want to add a few parameters
to the kernel commandline, for instance:
"pci=nomsi" or
"pci=nommconf" or
"pci=noacpi"


I have installed my ancient Matrox Millenium 8MB in the meantime, works like a charm :-)

Ah, a good piece of hw indeed :D
ankerman
10-22-2007, 02:58 PM
Then you might want to add a few parameters
to the kernel commandline, for instance:
"pci=nomsi" or
"pci=nommconf" or
"pci=noacpi"


I did not try the nomsi and nommconf options, but pci=noacpi does not work at all (no SATA support anymore). noapic seems to work the best - al least I can use the video card, but I have no USB and ieee1394 subsystems anymore. And what's worse - with noapic it uses only one core of my processor. So all in all, I have already returned the card, and hope for success stories with other cards. At least the machine is able to be configured through ssh for the time being.