Asus M3N78-EMH HDMI
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Features
- Form Factor
- Micro-ATX Form Factor 9.6 inch x 9.3 inch ( 24.4 cm x 23.7 cm )
- Socket
- AM2+ backward compatible with AM2 Processors
- Processors Supported
- Phenom
- Athlon64 FX
- Athlon64 X2
- Athlon64
- Sempron processors
- Support CPU up to 65W
- HDMI output
- NVIDIA GeForce 8200 graphics chipset on-board
- 8 channel audio
- 6 SATA inputs
This motherboard is relatively cheap and provides most of what you'd need for a frontend/backend box. The included HDMI output really sets this up for HD video, but I have not tested that yet. It would've been nice to see another set of video outputs - it has VGA and you can choose from DVI or HDMI via a jumper on the motherboard.
Issues
Note: I am running Debian Lenny on this system. If you're running a different distro, you might have a different experience.
Ethernet support
The only problem I ran into was that the kernel that came with Debian Lenny didn't have support for the built-in ethernet. To get pas this, I downloaded these two packages from debian to a USB disk and installed them manually using dpkg:
linux-image-2.6-amd64 (2.6.26+15) linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 (2.6.26-3)
X
I needed to install the nvidia drivers to get X working.
Download the drivers
wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/173.14.12/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.12-pkg2.run
Download the necessary utilities
sudo apt-get install binutils gcc make gcc-4.1 linux-headers-2.6-amd64
Change CC
export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.1
run the installer
chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.12-pkg2.run ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.12-pkg2.run
GLX
Some packages replace the /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so link with a real file. If that happens, the GLX module won't load - see the /var/log/Xorg.0.log and look for GLX. You can restore the link by linking to whatever versioned file is in that same directory.
sudo mv /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so.orig sudo ln -fs /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so.173.14.12 /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
