[LinuxBIOS] ASUS A7V8-MX SE support

nico nico.inc at gmail.com
Wed Oct 10 01:50:48 CEST 2007


Hi everyone,

I have an ASUS A7V8-MX SE that I'm not scared to brick... Has anyone
successfully tried linuxbios on it ?

I just received my bios chips, so I'm now ready to try making it run on
it... :-)

lspci -v gives me that:
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [KM400/A] Chipset Host
Bridge
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 8118
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 8
        Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
        Capabilities: [80] AGP version 3.5
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge (prog-if 00
[Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
        Memory behind bridge: e8000000-e9ffffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e4000000-e7ffffff
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7V8X-X motherboard
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
        I/O ports at d000 [size=32]
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7V8X-X motherboard
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
        I/O ports at d400 [size=32]
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7V8X-X motherboard
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
        I/O ports at d800 [size=32]
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82) (prog-if 20
[EHCI])
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7V8X-X motherboard rev 1.01
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
        Memory at ea000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7V8X-X motherboard
        Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a
[Master SecP PriP])
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7V8X-X motherboard rev. 1.01
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 17
        [virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8]
        [virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1]
        [virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8]
        [virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1]
        I/O ports at dc00 [size=16]
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7V600/K8V-X/K8V Deluxe motherboard
(ADI AD1980 codec [SoundMAX])
        Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 19
        I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev
74)
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 80ff
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 18
        I/O ports at e800 [size=256]
        Memory at ea001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [S3
UniChrome] Integrated Video (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 8118
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 20
        Memory at e4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
        Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at e9000000 [disabled] [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [70] AGP version 2.0

The northbridge isn't officially supported to start with... :-/

thanks for your feedback :-)
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