| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
platojones
Veteran
Joined: 23 Oct 2002
Posts: 1602
Location: Just over the horizon
|
 Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 1:26 am Post subject: |
 |
|
| d2_racing wrote: | So the onboard sound card is better then the Sound Blaster Live 
If I check this one : http://gentoo-wiki.com/Asus_P5Q-E
They have the same onboard card and everything is working. |
Well, good job then...if the onboard sound works with linux, I think you are good to go! |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
d2_racing
Bodhisattva
Joined: 25 Apr 2005
Posts: 13047
Location: Ste-Foy,Canada
|
| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 1:28 am Post subject: |
|
|
| I will use for sure the latest SystemRescueCD, because I don't think that the Gentoo 2008.0 minimal will boot on this box. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Monkeh
Veteran
Joined: 06 Aug 2005
Posts: 1656
Location: England
|
| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 1:43 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| d2_racing wrote: | | So the onboard sound card is better then the Sound Blaster Live |
Depends on the exact card. There are many. However the onboard will be better than anything cheap and nasty. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
zyko
l33t
Joined: 01 Jun 2008
Posts: 620
Location: Munich, Germany
|
| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:51 am Post subject: |
|
|
The wiki says it's got an Intel High Definition Audio soundchip, which is quite good.
On the other hand, please do not ever buy a Soundblaster or anything from Creative Labs! Their driver support is the very worst. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Monkeh
Veteran
Joined: 06 Aug 2005
Posts: 1656
Location: England
|
| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:28 am Post subject: |
|
|
| zyko wrote: | | The wiki says it's got an Intel High Definition Audio soundchip, which is quite good. |
Depends what you define as good. I define a handful of examples of HDA as acceptable.
| Quote: | | On the other hand, please do not ever buy a Soundblaster or anything from Creative Labs! Their driver support is the very worst. |
Good advice. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
zyko
l33t
Joined: 01 Jun 2008
Posts: 620
Location: Munich, Germany
|
| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:51 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Quote: | | Depends what you define as good. I define a handful of examples of HDA as acceptable. |
If you don't have a trained ear, the HDAs on recent mainboards are imho completely satisfying for enjoying acoustic music (active listening) -- which is imho the toughest test for any audio system. In most scenarios, the speakers are the limiting factor. I'd rather buy a decent pair of headphones than a more expensive sound card. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
d2_racing
Bodhisattva
Joined: 25 Apr 2005
Posts: 13047
Location: Ste-Foy,Canada
|
| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:26 am Post subject: |
|
|
For the record, should I use the AHCI SATA mode inside the BIOS or use the Compatibility Mode inside the BIOS ?
On my Thinkpad T60P, I use the AHCI, but with this new board, I don't know if the kernel will be able to see my HDD at all. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Monkeh
Veteran
Joined: 06 Aug 2005
Posts: 1656
Location: England
|
| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 5:44 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| zyko wrote: | | Quote: | | Depends what you define as good. I define a handful of examples of HDA as acceptable. |
If you don't have a trained ear, the HDAs on recent mainboards are imho completely satisfying for enjoying acoustic music (active listening) -- which is imho the toughest test for any audio system. In most scenarios, the speakers are the limiting factor. I'd rather buy a decent pair of headphones than a more expensive sound card. |
I don't have a trained ear, but with some decent headphones (Sennheiser HD515s) I can hear the difference between the two HDAs I've used lately (Sigmatel something and an Analog Devices AD1984 in my Thinkpad) and my various dedicated cards (a Soundblaster Live!, Audigy 2, Audigy 2 ZS, X-Fi, M-Audio Audiophile 2496..). I consider the AD1984 decent enough for casual listening. Biggest problem with onboard: Noise. There's always a very high noise floor with onboard audio in desktop machines.
| Quote: | | For the record, should I use the AHCI SATA mode inside the BIOS or use the Compatibility Mode inside the BIOS ? |
AHCI. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
P J
n00b
Joined: 10 Nov 2005
Posts: 36
Location: Finland
|
| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 7:16 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| d2_racing wrote: | | Hi, I found that the P5Q-Se doesn't run under Linux, because of the cheap Atheros Lan card. |
Hi
That Lan card should be supported in kernel 2.6.27. (http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a6a5325239c20202e18e21e94291bccc659fbf9e)
I myself have P5Q Pro and also this mobo works well. (And I really like my 4 cores & 4 gigabytes of memory  )
EDIT:
| platojones wrote: | | d2_racing wrote: | Since insane... 79 minutes.
I will love my new box for sure
Also, did you run makeopts="-j5" just to stress your compilation process. |
Never with emerge -e system before (I did earlier with openoffice and my kde upgrade to 3.5.10). I run a lot of heavy stuff on this box (kde, compiz-fusion, mythtv, firefox), so by backing it off to -j4, I can still run all the stuff I want and not even notice a compile is going on...that's the first time I've ever done a emerge -e system, though, so I have nothing to compare it against. |
You should try it with -j5. At least I can run everything I like when compiling with makeopts="-j5". I have emerge -e world currently running (with -j5 and NICE=0), four instances of boinc (with NICE=19) and I can still play Doom3 or Nexuiz without any slowdown or juddering (and that's with basically every graphics setting in games maxed out with res. 1920x1200). Quite sweet amount of number-crunching power.  |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
d2_racing
Bodhisattva
Joined: 25 Apr 2005
Posts: 13047
Location: Ste-Foy,Canada
|
| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 11:41 am Post subject: |
|
|
| I will have my box tonight |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
d2_racing
Bodhisattva
Joined: 25 Apr 2005
Posts: 13047
Location: Ste-Foy,Canada
|
| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 2:08 am Post subject: |
|
|
This box is awesome :
-emerge -e system : 79 minutes
-emerge cups hplip foomatic-db : 60 minutes
-KDE : 149 minutes
-Kile : 10 minutes 35 sec
-Firefox : 8 minutes 59 sec
-Thunderbird : 7 minutes 40 sec
-Stage 5 : 15 minutes 25 sec. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
platojones
Veteran
Joined: 23 Oct 2002
Posts: 1602
Location: Just over the horizon
|
| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 2:27 am Post subject: |
|
|
| d2_racing wrote: | This box is awesome :
-emerge -e system : 79 minutes
-emerge cups hplip foomatic-db : 60 minutes
-KDE : 149 minutes
-Kile : 10 minutes 35 sec
-Firefox : 8 minutes 59 sec
-Thunderbird : 7 minutes 40 sec
-Stage 5 : 15 minutes 25 sec. |
Looking good! Contratulations...now I can ask you questions about your setup Did you go with native ACHI? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
Kernel & Hardware
