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ASUS M2A-VM HDMI woes
\ David Relson (18 Sep 2007)
. \ Neil Bothwick (18 Sep 2007)
. \ Florian Philipp (18 Sep 2007)
. . \ David Relson (18 Sep 2007)

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Subject:	ASUS M2A-VM HDMI woes
Group:	Gentoo-user
From:	David Relson
Date:	18 Sep 2007

Well, I've done it this time :-<

It seemed time to upgrade from my AthlonXP so I bought a new motherboard
(ASUS M2A-VM HDMI), cpu (AMD 64 X2 5000), and memory (2GB DDR2 800).
With all the new hardware, my hopes were high!!

Then I removed the old mobo/cpu/ram from this workstation and installed
the new and things weren't as rosy as I'd hoped :-<

Problem 1 - ethernet controller. The Realtek 8168 didn't seem to have
a linux driver compatible with my 2.6.22 kernel. Not a big deal as I
could use my old ethernet card and solve the problem later.

Problem 2 - video. The ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 seems to have only
minimal support (VGA - 640x480x8) using the latest drivers in
portage, i.e. ati-drivers-8.40.4. I figured I could get at least
1024x768 using generic ATI support (with better resolution in the
future when up-to-date drivers are available).

Problem 3 - really low hard drive performance. I presume it's just
tweaking that can be done after (if?) the video problem can be
corrected.

Questions:

Anybody have experience with this board? Anybody have it working
well? What drivers are you using?

Thanks.

David
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