Linux Compatible

GA-M720-US3 (5)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Ubuntu Linux and has a average rating of 5

The last rating (5) has been submitted on 2010-05-03 10:22:56 by Anonymous running Ubuntu Linux:
everything just worked.on kubuntu 9.10 /10.04 sensors picked up all temps/fan speeds etc.

Gigabyte S1156 motherboard (5)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Ubuntu Linux and has a average rating of 5

The last rating (5) has been submitted on 2010-03-29 10:33:02 by Anonymous running Ubuntu Linux:
Works out of the box with Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit. I used it with an Intel i5 650 3.2GHz processor and 2 GB Crucial RAM.

GA-EP45-UD3P (1)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Ubuntu Linux and has a average rating of 1

The last rating (1) has been submitted on 2010-02-17 10:14:41 by Anonymous running Ubuntu Linux:
Ubuntu Karmic Koala (9.10) Server will complete installation but will NOT boot. Boot drive will not be recognized. Tried IDE, AHCI, and RAID drive settings. Going back to Asus P35 chipset based board which works fine with this release.

GA-MA74GM-S2H (4)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Ubuntu Linux,SUSE Linux and has a average rating of 4

The last rating (4) has been submitted on 2009-11-09 11:21:46 by Anonymous running Ubuntu Linux:
Tested against Intrepid. Not able to run audio driver supplied disk under Wine and therefore cannot reconfigure line jacks to allow 5.1/7.1 audio. Not yet tested audio through HDMI or S/PDIF. No other issues found.

GA-EP45-UD3R (5)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Debian GNU/Linux,CentOS and has a average rating of 5

The last rating (5) has been submitted on 2009-09-06 11:59:06 by Anonymous running Debian GNU/Linux:
Debian Lenny Release candidate 2 of the debian installer. I did netinst version of the debian lenny install. I have a sata disk, a GS7600 (nvidia) video card. The install was done Feb 12, 2009 so Lenny (testing) version of Debian is just about to go "stable". Lenny installed perfectly. I have run it for a day with absolutely no issues.

GA-G31M-S2L (5)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Ubuntu Linux,Puppy Linux,Debian GNU/Linux and has a average rating of 5

The last rating (5) has been submitted on 2008-12-19 11:49:43 by Anonymous running Ubuntu Linux:
Works fine Under Ubuntu 8.04 Won't boot from a USB drive.

Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 (5)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Debian GNU/Linux and has a average rating of 5

The last rating (5) has been submitted on 2008-07-27 11:22:00 by Anonymous running Debian GNU/Linux:
The integrated Ethernet and Sound cards worked out of the box on Debian Etch rev3 for AMD64. Also, no problem at all for installing and booting on the SATA drives. SATA DVD RW works out of the box. USB2 works fine, Firewire is detected (did not test yet) as a networking device. Good product, good BIOS (can flash it even within the BIOS interface), and listed in the compatibility database of Linux Bios compatible motherboards.

GA-M61P-S3 (5)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Fedora Core and has a average rating of 5

The last rating (5) has been submitted on 2008-03-10 11:30:50 by Anonymous running Fedora Core:
Using Fedora 8. Installed cleanly and perfectly. Nvidia drivers must be downloaded for the onboard graphics to work properly. See Livna repository for packages matching your kernel. *I'm only using the onboard sound as stereo, so I do not know if the multichannel works. (it should) *I am not using the On-Board ethernet, but am using a wLAN card (Ralink chipset recommended, try an adaptor by Edimax.) However, the on-board ethernet is easily read by the system. To my experience, not a single one of this motherboard's functions are not working under Fedora.

Gigabyte GA-7VM400M (5)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Linux other,Slackware Linux and has a average rating of 5

The last rating (5) has been submitted on 2007-10-14 15:35:14 by Anonymous running Linux other:
Mandrake 9.2 distro. chipset VIA KM400 in motherboard. All working fine, video, audio included

Gigabyte GA-7N400 motherboard (1)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Linux other and has a average rating of 1

The last rating (1) has been submitted on 2004-12-01 12:00:00 by Anonymous running Linux other:
FedoraCore2. The Motherboard works just fine, except that I cant get audi playback from the sound. The card WAS just playing LATE playback, then I installed the nvidia driver for nforce. Yuk byebye sound.

Gigabyte GA-7VT600-1394 (5)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Linux other and has a average rating of 5

The last rating (5) has been submitted on 2004-06-01 12:00:00 by Anonymous running Linux other:
Installed Fedora Core 1. Work well. Very stable. Used only parallel ATA133 disk. Not tried SATA. Kernel found Firewire OK, but not tried it out. LAN works fine. USB working.

Gigabyte GA-7VT600 with VT8237 raid conroller (5)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Linux other and has a average rating of 5

The last rating (5) has been submitted on 2004-01-01 12:00:00 by Anonymous running Linux other:
Linux is not able to recognize my s-ata hard drive.

Gigabyte GA-8LD533K (5)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Linux other and has a average rating of 5

The last rating (5) has been submitted on 2003-10-01 12:00:00 by Anonymous running Linux other:
The Gigabyte GA-8LD533K is fully compatible with Redhat Linux 9.0 and Mandrake 8.1.

Gigabyte GA-7VAX1394 (5)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Linux other and has a average rating of 5

The last rating (5) has been submitted on 2003-08-01 12:00:00 by Anonymous running Linux other:
Everything runs well and is natively supported.

Install the latest version of ALSA for full audio support. Newer kernels from 2.4.21 support limited audio functions natively but it's still a good idea to install ALSA.

Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro (5)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Linux other and has a average rating of 5

The last rating (5) has been submitted on 2003-08-01 12:00:00 by Anonymous running Linux other:
English
I have this board running GNU/Linux Debian Woody r1, Red Hat Linux 9.0 and Kurumin 2.0 for few days. The system are stable and all devices are detected and working fine (sataraid, raidide, lan, sound, usb, fireware, etc).

Portugues
Eu tenho uma placa dessas rodando GNU/Linux Debian Woody r1, Red Hat Linux 9.0 e Kurumin 2.0 por alguns dias. O sistema está estável e todos os dispositivos foram detectados e estão funcionando corretamente (sataraid, raidide, fireware, usb, lan, etc)

Alexandre C. Alencar
Fortaleza/CE - Brazil
alexandre@debian-ce.org

Gigabyte GA-7IXE (5)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Linux other and has a average rating of 5

The last rating (5) has been submitted on 2003-07-01 12:00:00 by Anonymous running Linux other:
Works perfectly.

Gigabyte GA-8INXP (5)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Linux other and has a average rating of 5

The last rating (5) has been submitted on 2003-02-01 12:00:00 by Anonymous running Linux other:
The Gigabyte GA-8INXP AGP8X/Dual Channel DDR Intel E7205 chipset motherboard works just fine with the Mandrake 9.1 beta 3 distributon.

Gigabyte GA-7ZX (5)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Linux other and has a average rating of 5

The last rating (5) has been submitted on 2002-11-01 12:00:00 by Anonymous running Linux other:
Works perfectly

Gigabyte GA-7VRXP (5)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Linux other and has a average rating of 5

The last rating (5) has been submitted on 2002-08-01 12:00:00 by Anonymous running Linux other:
This is just a Quick and Dirty Review. So I apologize for grammer, spelling and overall lack of polish to my writting. Also I am a total linux newbie. I just want to get that out.

I bought this board and all new components sans hard drive from Newegg.com (who seems to be a pretty good place to shop) I assembled my machine and placed my old drive in it. I had Win2k and Lycoris on it

Windows barfed all over the place and wouldn't load. But Lycoris noticed that my video card had changed and ran the video setup again and let me login without a problem. Anywho this is a review of the hardware not the software so I should probably get down to business.

I decided to reinstall Windows and Linux and start fresh on both fronts. Windows install took forever but went well but the Linux install was amazing. When I booted from the CD-rom the first thing it did was detect the built in audio a Creative CT5880 PCI sound controller and played a little sound. This was before mouse and keyboard detection. Everything else seemed to install fine. But for me Audio has always been a pain in the Arse to get up and running so this blew me away.

The board has a Built Realtek 8100BL Ethernet 10/100Mb LAN controller . I am not on a network at home but the system show that the device is working and is detected properly. I have always had great success with Realtek cards in the past under win and lin so I am confident that this is working just fine.

I know that this is not an indepth review but I just wanted to let everybody know that this board seems to work just fine with Linux. There is other onboard options such as IDE Raid, Dual Bios, etc.. but I really don't have the hardware or the software to test or verify their perfomance.

I would like to also say that I have used Gigabyte boards before and they have always been easy to work with. They are a respected company in the industry and offer good support via their website Giga-byte.com

Finally I would like to say that this instilation went so well primarily due to the quality of the Lycoris Distribution. I already admitted that I am a linux Newbie but I have been working with Wintel machines since 1995. I often recommend PC's and peripherals to freinds, and family. Until now I haven't felt comfortable recommending Linux. But with the ease of install and config of Lycoris I now feel comfortable recommending it to self described "PC Illiterates".

Thanks