Asus P5Q-E

General Information
The Asus P5Q-E is a motherboard with an Intel LGA775 socket, compatible with 45nm multi-core CPUS. It is based on Intel's P45 chipset.

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Boot CD
amd64 booted properly using the latest minimal CD. Ran and installed with kernel 2.6.30

NIC
The sky2 module is auto loaded for one of the NICs and appears to function correctly. The other NIC uses skge and functions properly after a call to modprobe.

Intel ICH10R Southbrige RAID

 * Configure SATA as RAID in the bios
 * See HOWTO_Gentoo_Install_on_Bios_(Onboard)_RAID

Drive Xpert
Setup in the bios is easy. Had trouble from the install cd accessing the disks an gave up early. Might need software support of some kind.

PATA
Works using the pata_marvell although performance isn't great. Had to enable the Drive Xpert in the bios. Not sure if this was coincidence or a hard requirement. Some troubleshoutings may occur with vanilla kernel lower than 2.6.27_rc6 (non detection of IDE drives). Problem is solved since this version of the vanilla-kernel.

SATA and PATA
You will need to determine which suboptions to these you need.

Sound
The sound chip works with the snd-hda-intel sound module. The corresponding kernel options are:

USB
Tested with:


 * External HD
 * Camera
 * Thumb drive (Lexar)
 * Mouse / Keyboard
 * Printer

Firewire
See this guide.

Network
Some motherboards use a slightly different NIC make sure to check which one you use. For Example P5Q-EM uses a realtek controller not Marvell.

See this guide and this guide.

Hardware Sensors

 * Lm sensors

A way to get lm_sensors working, prior to the sensor chip having proper support:

Note added by JustinClift, 2008-12-26:

This seems to indicate the monitoring chip itself will be included in the 2.6.28 kernel (or sometime soon anyway):

http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2008-December/024881.html

Note added by plumbear, 2009-03-28

Support not yet included in kernel 2.6.29, patches are available at:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jdelvare/linux-2.6/jdelvare-hwmon/

The three patches must be applied in this order:
 * 1) hwmon-w83627ehf-01-invert-fan-pin-logic.patch
 * 2) hwmon-w83627ehf-02-add-support-for-w83667hg.patch
 * 3) hwmon-w83627ehf-03-fix-temp3-vs-in6.patch

Support is included in 2.6.31, as noted in this changelog entry:


 * [WATCHDOG] w83627hf_wdt.c: add support for the W83627EHF support

lspci output
lspci

P5Q Deluxe
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P5Q-EM
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P5Q-Premium
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P5Q
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P5Q SE
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P5Q SE/R
lspci * PCI Card