{"id":584,"date":"2007-01-28T08:59:36","date_gmt":"2007-01-28T13:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2007\/01\/28\/linux-and-the-msi-7265-motherboard\/"},"modified":"2007-01-28T09:01:30","modified_gmt":"2007-01-28T14:01:30","slug":"linux-and-the-msi-7265-motherboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2007\/01\/28\/linux-and-the-msi-7265-motherboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux and the MSI-7265 Motherboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2006\/09\/11\/core-2-duo-motherboards-and-linux-instability-fun\/\"><br \/>\nearlier post<\/a><br \/>\nI wrote about the pains of Core 2 Duo motherboards and Linux support.  Since September, there has been quite a bit of progress in the Linux community to support the JMicron SATA\/PATA controller that is on the Intel P965 based motherboards.  However, I&#8217;ve found that things are STILL not all rosy with my<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msicomputer.com\/product\/p_spec.asp?model=P965_Neo-F&amp;class=mb\">MSI-7265 <\/a> (aka the P965 Neo F model) motherboard.  After looking around I found an interesting review on the MSI-7265 motherboard:<br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reghardware.co.uk\">Register Hardware<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe P965 Neo is a simple, no fuss but no frills motherboard with a decent layout\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What this means is that the MSI-7265 does not offer very good access to many of the devices via the BIOS versus some other P965-based motherboards do such as the Asus P5B.  After a bit of wrangling of my Gentoo installation I was able to get Linux installed, upgrade the kernel to 2.6.19-*mumble some Gentoo patch*, and boot properly.<\/p>\n<h4>What&#8217;s working<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>The SATA AND the PATA controller on the jmicron chipset. (Allows using a DVD drive and the hard drive)<\/li>\n<li>Onboard Audio<\/li>\n<li>The onboard Realtek 8110SC-based ethernet port (requires getting a driver from the Realtek website)<\/li>\n<li>The USB ports<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>What&#8217;s NOT working<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Any of the Serial ATA ports off the ICH8 controller<\/li>\n<li>Suspend (It sleeps but never comes back up)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>References<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reghardware.co.uk\/2006\/09\/20\/review_msi_p965_neo-f\/\">The Reg Hardware Review on the MSI 7265 Motherboard<\/a> <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ubuntuforums.org\/showthread.php?t=234706&amp;page=27\">Ubuntu Thread on MSI P965 Neo Install<\/a> <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ubuntuforums.org\/showthread.php?t=233540&amp;page=3\">An older Ubuntu thread on the MSI P965 Compatibility<\/a> <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/linux-ata.org\/driver-status.html\">Linux SATA Driver Status Page<\/a> (Really useful!) <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www-or.amp.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/members\/liang\/oss\/linux-msi-p965-neo.html\">A Japanese post on trying to get the MSI P965 working<\/a> (They failed) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an earlier post I wrote about the pains of Core 2 Duo motherboards and Linux support. Since September, there has been quite a bit of progress in the Linux community to support the JMicron SATA\/PATA controller that is on the Intel P965 based motherboards. However, I&#8217;ve found that things are STILL not all rosy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1215,1100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gripe","category-linux"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}