Current mood:	excited
Entry tags:	abit linux

Linux on the Abit AW9D-MAX
Yesterday I received a newly purchased computer to replace the old aging one that I used during the last 3 years.

It has a fabulous Abit AW9D-MAX board (running at 1060Mhz), with 2GB of RAM (667Mhz) and Intel Core Due 2 E6600 (2.4Ghz with 4MB internal cache). It also includes an Nvidia-based GeForce4 7300GT card.

So far I got everything working, except the on-board 7.1+2 audio adapter. It's a Realtek ALC882 chipset that exhibits some problems in Linux 2.6.21-rc6 although this chip is supposedly supported. I'm currently trying to investigate this issue, though I am not an ALSA expert. Maybe I'll manage to hack a fix for this driver by myself - I'll see how it goes. Anyway, I posted a bug report in the ALSA's bug tracker.

So, except of a soon-to-be-fixed audio issue, this board seems to be quite Linux-friendly.

I'll also try to switch my Debian distro from i386 to x86_64 with his box. Quite enjoyable :)