fedora on asus M70VN-X1?

[Robin Laing]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 09 March 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>  anyone have good/bad/indifferent experience with one of these
>> running fedora?
>>
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220412
>>
> Robert, I have an ASUS mobo in this machine, but had I known the problems I 
> would encounter with its broken bios, I would not have touched it for any 
> price.  As it was, I paid nearly $300 USD just for the board, an M2N-SLI 
> Deluxe.  I think the board is good, but the bios is a certified problem child.  
> They have a newer, beta rated one on their web site, which fixes a problem in 
> memory allocation that any linux kernel does a 1 times oops on very early in 
> the boot sequence, but I have yet to get a 1 hour uptime out of it.  If I use 
> the one that does the oops, uptimes are weeks if I want them.  And they aren't 
> fixing it, that beta copy is now almost 3 years old according to its internal 
> dates when unzip'd!  Repeated emails, 3 now, to support have never been 
> acknowledged either.  After that, nope, not with a 50 foot borrowed pole.
> 

In general, I have been very happy with Nvidia over either Intel or ATI 
cards that I have run.

The Intel card is supported but the graphics are problematic and it 
isn't just Fedora but all versions of Linux from what I have seen.

ATI was a nightmare as I do need 3D (kids and games) and I just had 
headaches.

Nvidia has caused some problems but in all the years has worked close to 
90% of the time.  Freshrpms support is great.  I just wish akmod would 
work as advertised on my systems.

In regards to the ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe.  I am using one now and it works 
like a dream.  All I had to do was update the BIOS to fix an issue with 
the amount of RAM I was using.  It wouldn't recognize anything over 4Gig 
when I got it.

The only time it gets rebooted is for kernel updates and is being used 
for BOINC so running at almost 100% at all times.

Lately all my video issues are related to the autodetect features of 
xorg.  I have created xorg.conf files and fixed my issues.

As for this particular laptop, I cannot say but I would purchase an 
Nvidia based system over any other one.



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Robin Laing