Here you can find linux setup information of the hardware I currently use. Kernel options are taken from Linux kernel version 2.6.12.5
The jumpbox items to the left translate to this:
As far as the kernel is concerned, the MB has the following hardware you might want to enable support for:
There are many versions of this card, but all of them use the EMU10k1 chipset and it is well suppported under linux by the emu10k1 driver (OSS). You should be abe to find ample information on the web by asking Auntie Google. I don't use ALSA because of issues I had with the mixer: the rear channel doesn't react to master volume control. This may be fixed now but I wouldn't know, as I don't want to rebuild and reconfigure my whole audio stuff. Also, there are way too many weird mixer controls ;) . In case you want to use the joystick support, there is a special option (CONFIG_GAMEPORT_EMU10K1) under Device Drivers --> Input device support --> Hardware I/O ports --> SB Live and Audigy gameport support.
Note to the guys from GIS: This section got uploaded here in error. I do not own a TV card and I don't use it to illegally watch your programs without paying.
Be careful if you buy such a card. There are several revisions and not all of them use the same chips.
Fortunately, the one I own uses the brooktree Bt878 chipset which is supported under Linux through the bttv driver. I also enabled the btaudio and tvmixer modules but they don't appear to be required to use the card. In my /etc/modules.conf, I use the following options:
I connected the audio output on the card with the input plug on the Sound Blaster. TV sound now is output in the "line1" channel.
This is a card sold by German diskonter Aldi (or Hofer here in Austria). Writings on the PCB of the card indicate it was made by MSI, Model number 8503, but they don't list the card on their site. I flashed the BIOS with the one for MSI8850, and the nVidia reference BIOS and both work well. You can also edit the BIOS to enable SBA and Fast Writes, this works as well. I could post the modifies BIOS firmware but I am concerned about copyright issues regarding distribution and modifications.
Using the proprietary nvidia driver, the xorg.conf section looks like this:
Of yourse this works out-of the box, but I made some custom modelines for it. This is the snippet from my xorg.conf:
The interesting thing about this is that I bought it as a normal IDE controller, but have been able to flash the RAID-enabled bios into it. Pseudo-Hardware RAID of this type sucks for a number of reasons though so I don't use it after all ;) I just thought this was very cool that it worked, because the card was really cheap.