Asus TUV4X with audio

[rdeschene]

In case anyone's thinking of getting an ASUS TUV4X motherboard, I would just like to pass on my experiences. They're all quite positive.

(1) did a simple motherboard/CPU/RAM swap, with no re-installation of the O.S.
(2) "commented out" (i.e. put a # sign in front of) the lines in /etc/modprobe.conf that referred to the ISA network and sound cards on my old motherboard setup.
(3) used SuSE's hardware configuration tools (YaST1 or YaST2) to setup the "onboard" audio (Creative Meida Electronics' CM8738 chip) and the PCI RealTek 8139C Network card
(4) could connect to my DSL connection as before. Piece of cake!

BTW, the printed manual for this motherboard shows that BIOS configuration tops out at 9.0X multiplier, but it in fact auto-recognized my Intel Celeron 900, and used a 100MHz system bus and 9.0X multiplier.

Rick D.

[rdeschene]

After upgrading my Linux system, as described above, I gave my old motherboard/CPU/RAM to my younger brothers: AOpen AX6BZ mobo, Celeron 433 (likes to be over-clocked!), 2x64MB DIMM which they did a "motherboard upgrade" on using MS Windows.

Oh my dear god!!!

Now I remember the couple of days of horsesh*t I had to go through the last time I did a mobo upgrade - OF COURSE, I had Sindows installed at that time. Man. They had to go into Control Panel and systematically uninstall all the drivers for the hardware they have physically attached, and THEN, re-install it. This takes hours, and oftentimes the "auto-detect your hardware" of Windows turns into a game of - an O.S. so smart, it's stupid. Oh man!

Absolute nonsense. Oh well, at least they don't have Windows XP - they wouldn't have even been able to boot up.

Yes, now I remember why I had an exhausted feeling of disgust when I first installed SuSE 6.3 two years ago. You can repeatedly pump out a backed-up septic tank for so long, and but in the end you have to to replace it.