Gene C. wrote:

I assumed that some hardware such as the NIC on the MB was not going to work but am really surprised by the interaction with the Dell 2000FP monitor. Given that bad values could actually destroy a monitor (according to Mike Harris) does not give me warm feelings about the MB.

I guess I have had somewhat better luck with my K8V (yeah, I sprung for the 3200+/754 pin version) with FC1. Both the std FC1 32 bit version and Justin's 2.4.22-1.2129.nptl for the x86_64 are running here quite well...no monitor issues with a ATI 9000 and a MAG LCD altho Anaconda didn't recognize it so I had to feed it H and V sync ranges. Anaconda did find the SATA controller that I had turned off as I have no SATA drives which caused some nasty messages to show up in the log but did no real harm...and removing sata_via from modules.conf cleaned up that problem.

I never could get a FTP install to work (it insisted on putting in an extra \ in the url that I never could get rid of) from the boot disk but an NFS install worked perfectly once I had the directory tree on another box.

The 3c2000 driver (source, at least) on the Asus site looks to be nothing other than the driver for the full range of SysKonnect cards ...it includes everything but the kitchen sink but it works ok here...it was used during the NFS install so, as I remember, the driver got installed without any further intervention by me.

Davey Jones' 2.6.0 RPM does not run here though. Seems to have memory setup issues, perhaps from BIOS, as there are slab corruption errors as far as the eye can see. It is trying but...I've passed info along to experts so hopefully this issue will be looked into soon. I've heard that it does run on a Biostar board but not sure whether it was the K8T800 or the nForce 150 version...at any rate, those both use Award BIOS and since the northbridge is on the CPU, memory access should be unaffected by the chipset, so it seems that perhaps Award got things right and AMI didn't (or at least the way the developers thought they would be). I'd be interested in hearing if others have gotten 2.6 on an Athlon65/Opteron to run on AMI Bios.