Bug 142179

More info about the motherboard:

Make/Model: ASUS A8N-VM/CSM
microATX S939
GE6150+NF430
DDR
PCI-E16
SATA RAID
Video
Sound
GBLAN 1394

Regards
Steve

Please get more information about your hardware from the vendors,
which means the hardware specification from ASUS and Nvidia to be
able to support the new hardware.

Please provide the hwinfo output from the installation system; are there Linux drivers for the hardware already, which we just fail to detect, or is the hardware not supported as-is?

Hi Lars/Werner: When I booted up from the SUSE 10.0 LIVE DVD, it did manage to configure the onboard NIC using the forcedeth drivers, and set the video using the VESA drivers rather than the nvidia; as to sound, it didn't work. When I installed onto the HDD, the onboard NIC & sound did not work, and the video was set to use the VESA drivers.

The chipsets information from the motherboard is detailed below:

Processor Socket:       AMD Socket 939
System Chipset:	        nVIDIA nForce 430
OnBoard Video Chipset:	nVIDIA GeForce 6150
Sound Support:	        ADI AD1986A
Network Interfaces:     Ethernet (10/100/1000 Mbps)
Bus Speed:	  2000 MHz
Memory Type:	  DDR-SDRAM (DDRRAM)
Interface Type:	  Audio - Center Audio Out Jack, Audio - Line In (1/8" Mini),
                  Audio - Line Out (1/8" Mini), Audio - Microphone In (1/8" 
                  Mini), Audio - Rear Surround Audio Out Jack, Ethernet - RJ45 
                  Twisted-Pair (XBaseT), IEEE 1394 - 6 pin Powered, Keyboard - 6
                  pin mini-DIN (PS/2), Mouse - 6 pin mini-DIN (PS/2), Parallel -
                  25 pin D-shell (IEEE 1284A), USB - Universal Serial Bus 2.0, 
                Video - 15 pin High-Density D-shell (VGA), Video - 24 pin DVI-D
Headers:	  Floppy - 34 pin Header, IDE - ATA/EIDE/ATAPI 40 pin, IEEE 
                  1394a, S/PDIF Connector, Serial ATA - 7 pin, Serial RS-232, 
                  USB 2.0
Controller Type:  IDE/EIDE Drive Array (RAID), SATA II (Serial ATA II), Ultra 
                  DMA 133, Ultra DMA 33, Ultra DMA 66
Video Bus:	  PCI Express x16

More info is available at the vendor site at:
www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3&l2=15&l3=0&model=766&modelmenu=1

Let me know if you need anything else.

Regards
Steve

Sorry, you can't change the priority field on this bug. 

The video chipset is not supported by the Open Source "nv" driver, but the proprietary "nvidia" driver. For configuration please have a look at

  http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html

I can't say anything about the network/sound support.

Thanks Stefan! Unfortunately this means that we cannot help you with the driver for the gfx card, Steve :-(

Takashi, any ideas about the sound?

The sound won't work with SL10.0 kernel since the chipset wasn't supported at that time.  It should work with the latest kernel, though.

Thanks Takashi.

RESOLVED INVALID, unsupported hardware. Sorry.

However as Takashi said the sound at least should work with later kernels and thus should work with SL10.1, and you may be interested in our beta program and http://www.opensuse.org/!

Well, thanks for you support everyone. As I stated in the above problem log:

"When I booted up from the SUSE 10.0 LIVE DVD, it did manage to
configure the onboard NIC using the forcedeth drivers, and set the video using
the VESA drivers rather than the nvidia; as to sound, it didn't work. When I
installed onto the HDD, the onboard NIC & sound did not work, and the video was
set to use the VESA drivers."

So, SL10.0 does in fact setup the NIC properly but not the graphics or sound. When I tried SL10.0 from www.suse.org that did not setup the NIC, graphics or sound properly.

I'm very impressed with SUSE Linux and would like to use it as my standard desktop; however, without the proper configure (I already spent a week on trying to get things to work) I am not going to be able to enjoy it. I'd like to setup SUSE on my laptop also (a compaq Presario, with AMD64 CPU) and a few other machines, but I do need help or suggestions on how to get things working. Why did the SL10.0 Live DVD configure the NIC properly? If you can tell me that, my first major hurdle (getting online) would be solved.

Regards
Steve

Sorry, I meant:

"So, SL10.0 does in fact setup the NIC properly but not the graphics or sound.
When I tried SL10.1 from www.suse.org that did not setup the NIC, graphics or
sound properly."