ASUS P2B-DS

ASUS P2B-DS

[Kari Laine]

Hi Vise People,
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ASUS P2B-DS board seems NOT work very well with default kernel in FED
Core 3.  smp-kernel hangs booting at various stages. I am goig to try
2.6.10 today. non-smp-kernel boots fine. This is my first time I try to
test with smp-kernels so I don't know what I could try. Could someone
give me some directions what to test?

If someone already know this is doomed motherboard might say so I
wouldn't waste time with it. Thanks.

Best Regards
Kari Laine

Re: ASUS P2B-DS

[Tim Schmielau]

> Hi Vise People,
> <GH1N2J3JKL - this helps, me to find answers - please keep line>
> 
> ASUS P2B-DS board seems NOT work very well with default kernel in FED
> Core 3.  smp-kernel hangs booting at various stages. I am goig to try
> 2.6.10 today. non-smp-kernel boots fine. This is my first time I try to
> test with smp-kernels so I don't know what I could try. Could someone
> give me some directions what to test?
> 
> If someone already know this is doomed motherboard might say so I
> wouldn't waste time with it. Thanks.

P2B-DS is a great, robust mainboard. This mail is written on one, and we 
have some more in production. Never had any problems with them.

Try deleting the OSS sound drivers under /lib/modules/*/kernel/sound/oss/ .

While I don't run fedora, I had similar problems with SuSE 9.1 and 9.2.
These boiled down to a problem with the el cheapo fm801 soundcard I 
plugged into the board.
The default installation installed an OSS driver that is not SMP-safe. 
After removing the driver, the correct ALSA driver got selected and 
everything was fine.

Hope this helps
Tim