Happiness is an Asus P5E-VM HDMI

Posted by Christopher Smith Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:36:00 GMT

So, a while ago, I blogged about the new desktop config I went with, citing the joys of the uATX space. That system stopped working a while ago, so now seems like a great time to provide a long term road test report.

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  1. mmorpg 12 days later:

    Thanks for the link to the graphics card…needed a new one to run some games

  2. Christopher Smith 14 days later:

    Glad I could be of service mmorpg. You should know I’m not a hard core gamer, and if you are, you should probably look at faster cards. If I was buying now, I’d probably look at a 9600 or 8800GT(S) board, and a real hard core gamer should at least look at an 8800GTX.

  3. dave 25 days later:

    Does the Asus P5E-VM HDMI work in linux?

  4. Christopher Smith 25 days later:

    Does the Asus P5E-VM HDMI work in linux?

    Absolutely. The primary system I run on it is 64-bit Ubuntu. I spoke of Windows issues because it was the OS that actually had problems with it.

  5. Jim Van Zandt about 1 month later:

    I just got one of those P5E-VM HDMI boards myself, for my primary Linux system, so I’m glad to hear you like it so far. Do you have sound working? I roll my own kernels, and have configured everything that sounds likely, but /dev/sndstat still reports no soundcards.

  6. Christopher Smith about 1 month later:

    Jim: I’ve been using the Intel HD Audio driver (snd_hda_intel).

  7. Jim Van Zandt about 1 month later:

    I got sound working with sndhdaintel, sndpcmoss, sndsoccore, and their dependencies. However, I can only adjust the volume with aumix. aumixer fails with the message “alsamixer: function sndctlopen failed for default: No such device”. “play” works, but “xmms” won’t.

  8. Christopher Smith about 1 month later:

    Hmm… I don’t know what to tell you on that one Jim. I use the volume knob on my speakers to control volume generally. When in doubt, I use alsamixer.

  9. Fred about 1 month later:

    How is the noise level on the P5E?

  10. Christopher Smith about 1 month later:

    How is the noise level on the P5E?

    Any noise it makes is drowned out by my CPU fan, case fan and hard drives (actually, the whole system is pretty quiet). Not that I’m surprised by this though… it has no moving parts. What kind of noise were you expecting?

  11. Pete 4 months later:

    Hi Chris,

    I’m just wondering how you managed to get X working with the HDMI output - my config does produces a blank screen when going into X? Did you have to install any special drivers? Could you send on your xorg.conf ?

  12. Christopher Smith 4 months later:

    So, I can’t say I actually used the HDMI output as I used my NVidia card for video instead. That said, you should just use Intel’s drivers and the relevant config to point output to the HDMI side and it’ll work. Are you using the HDMI->DVI converter included with the motherboard?

  13. Darren 6 months later:

    Hi Chris,

    I’ve picked up a P5E-VM HDMI, just like yours and am diving into the Linux world (yes, a newbie). I seem to be having trouble getting the firewire to work. Is there anything special you did to get it up and running?

    Thanks,

    Darren

  14. Christopher Smith 6 months later:

    So Darren, I actually haven’t used the firewire port yet, but my Linux (Ubuntu) seems to find it well enough. Can you describe what Linux distribution you are using and what the observed problem is?

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