[CentOS] Centos 5.0 Intel G33/P35 Chipset Support (Asus P5K-VM, P5KC)

[Akemi Yagi]

On 10/22/07, Michael Rock <mikerocks65 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have 2 new boxes that I cannot use yet because of
> problems supporting these newer chipsets in 5.1.  Does
> anyone know when the CD version of 5.0 x86-64 that has
> support for these chipsets be available on any on a
> Centos mirror?
>
> Has the support for these chipsets been added to yum
> yet?
>
> Here are my latest results with these chipsets and
> Centos 5.1
>
> 1. Asus P5K, E6850, P35 Chipset:  Does not boot or
> install without "acpi=off all-generic-ide irqpoll
> nommconf"
>
> Also, when it does boot it does not recognize LAN and
> video hangs loading gnome.  I tried install the Asus
> Linux driver for the mobo but 'make install' produces
> error that kernel sources cannot be found.
>
> 2. Asus P5K-VM, Q6600, G33 chipset:  Installs and
> boots as long as "acpi=off" switch used.  But I
> understand this disables multi-core support. LAN and
> video are working.
>
> thx
>
> -- Mike

You might want to check out these threads:

http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=9585&forum=39
and
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=9667&forum=39

Akemi