On 9/16/05, Dirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > I'm planning to buy a ASUS mainboard with the following chipset: > > Chipset VIA K8T800Pro and VIA VT8237 > > > It's the A8V-Deluxe
I'm running this board on my desktop machine with Debian Sarge since March without any problems. I have connected three SATA disks, and one IDE disk, which run perfectly. Usb, firewire, onboard sound, frequency scaling (Cool'N'Quiet), onboard ethernet all work here. Some A8Vs come bundled which a pci wlan card which runs pretty well with the rt2500 driver. Even the hardware sensors are fully supported, so I can read temperatures and adjust the fan speeds in software. And deluxe really means deluxe with asus. The board came with all needed cables: ide, sata, sata power, floppy, additional backside connectors for usb and firewire, etc. A bios upgrade on this board does not need a DOS/Windows program -- the board can read the new bios directly from cdrom. I can really recommend this board for use with linux. My experiences all come from a recent 2.6 kernel. I do not know, whether a 2.4 kernel supports all the hardware on this motherboard. Regards, Jim
