P5K Premium
Submitted by Anonymous on 2008-04-06 10:53:29

This product has a rating of 4 out of 5 running under Ubuntu Linux

Comments:
The issue listed with the dual ethernet ports was a reality with me. Fortunately I found the workaround and I don't use the ethernet ports anymore anyway.

The wireless works out-of-the-box on Gutsy, but there's a known bug with the driver; on rare occasions (most noticably with high CPU load + high upstream + downstream traffic) the driver stops working and you need to modprobe it out and back in again. Annoying, but I run into it rarely.

Works:

Wireless
Ethernet ports (both of them)
Firewire
USB
SATA
CPU scaling
Audio output through rear port

Doesn't work:

Suspend and hibernate (note: I don't have a swap partition and I'm running Nvidia, this could be the cause).
Audio input - possibly a later version of ALSA would do the trick.
Reported CPU temperature is way too low (18 Celcius at idle), but I believe it reports the correct temperature when under load. The new version of lm-sensors should detect it all correctly anyway once Gnome is switched over to use it.


This is a good choice of motherboard for a Linux machine. Later versions of the kernel, wireless drivers, ALSA and lm-sensors (already out) will improve compatibility, I'm sure.



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