[ale] Ubuntu no go

[Jim]

Dan Lambert wrote:
> What specific MoBo is this, Jim? I don't recall reading whether it was a 
> laptop or desktop. You may have said that, and I skimmed over it, but 
> I'd like to know which manufacturer is using that chip set.
>
> Dan
>
>   
EliteGroup ECS P965T-A.  It was on sale at Fry's last week, with a 6400
processor.

Paul wrote:



I'm a hardware idiot, no clue what that means ;(
is there some command in Linux to tell you the kind of processor ( other than 
just SMP) ?
I mean, I know what DELL supposedly shipped me BUT... I tried the sysinfo.zip 
shell script, but it doesn't tell me about processor or motherboard..I'm a hardware idiot, no clue what that means ;(

Nothing that will tell you the mother board, but cat /proc/cpuinfo gives:

[jwl at localhost ~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 15
model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU          6400  @ 2.13GHz
stepping        : 6
cpu MHz         : 2128.176
cache size      : 2048 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 10
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips        : 4263.74


[jwl at localhost ~]$ /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 29a0 (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 29a1 (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2834 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2835 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 283a (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Unknown device 284b (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 283f (rev 02)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2847 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2830 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2831 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2832 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2836 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2810 (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2820 (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Unknown device 283e (rev 02)
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2825 (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 01df (rev a1)
03:00.0 IDE interface: JMicron Technologies, Inc. Unknown device 2361 (rev 02)
04:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
04:03.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. PCI0680 Ultra ATA-133 Host Controller (rev 02)
04:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Unknown device 8167 (rev 10)

Unfortuantely FC5 doesn't give you as much info as some of the OS's do.  Incidently this MB worked OK as an Xen dom0 system on a 2.6.18 kernel until I screwed it up by installing xen 3.0.4 overtop of the xen utilities.

Jim.