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
