ASUSTek K8N-E (Deluxe)
Linux Compatibility Testing Results

System Type: Workstation
Test Completed: 2004-06-24

ASUSTek K8N-E (Deluxe) is awarded the AppLabs Linux Compatibility mark.

AppLabs' www.Linux-Tested.com compatibility testing of this system showed the following distributions compatible with the ASUSTek K8N-E (Deluxe):

SuSE 9.0

RedHat 9.0

This document presents the compatibility testing results.

System Configuration

The following table defines the system configuration tested by AppLabs.

System Configuration as Tested
Company	ASUSTek Computer Inc.
Model	ASUSTek K8N-E (Deluxe)
BIOS Revision	1000.027
Main Board and Chipset	nVidia nForce3 Pro 250
Processor(s)	AMD® Opteron 64 3.200+
RAM	256MB DDR RAM
HBA	NA
Motherboard Features and Capabilities	1. Support suspend to RAM (S3) capacity 2. Supports DDR DRAM 3. Supports SATA RAID
Display Adapter	nVidia GeForce 4 MX440SE
Serial Ports	One (1) 16550 compatible
Parallel Ports	One (1) Enhanced Bi-directional
USB Ports	Four (4) USB 2
I/O Ports and buses	One (1) AGP Ports; Five (5) PCI Slots;
Host Bus Adapter	NA
Network Interface	Onboard Marvell® 88E8001-LKJ
Audio Chipset / Sound Card	RealTek ALC850
Optical Drive	Behavior Tech Corp. BDV316B
Hard Drive	Seagate® ST320410A 20GB IDE
Floppy Drive	Standard 1.44MB
Keyboard	Standard 101 Keyboard
Pointing Device	Logitech® PS/2 Mouse
Miscellaneous Hardware

Testing Results

The following table defines the hardware as tested in this system by AppLabs, and provides the pass/fail results.

Tests and determinations are available for reference in ASCII format for immediate viewing.

Test Comment Result
Installation Testing
CD-ROM Installation PASSED
NFS/FTP Installation PASSED
Device Auto Probing PASSED
Base System Testing
Kernel Compatibility PASSED
GRUB/LILO Compatibility PASSED
Heavy I/O Test PASSED
Network Test PASSED
Network Load Test (Not required on workstation test) NA
SMP Test (Only required multiprocessor systems) NA
Display Adapter
Console Compatibility PASSED
X Server Compatibility PASSED
Stand Alone Monitor (Laptop Test Only) NA
Simultaneous Display CRT/LCD (Laptop Test Only) NA
Sound Adapter
Basic Sound Compatibility NA
Advanced Sound Availibility NA
Advanced Sound Compatibility NA
Serial Ports
Kernel Detection PASSED
Compatibility Testing PASSED
Throughput Testing PASSED
Parallel Ports
Kernel Detection PASSED
Compatibility Testing PASSED
Mouse
Kernel Detection PASSED
Compatibility Testing PASSED
Keyboard
Compatibility Testing PASSED

Notes and Observations:

The original tester was unable to get sound drivers working at the time this machine was tested, but it has been reported that the ALSA drivers do work well and have for some time.

None of the operating systems detected the NIC during installation. The NIC driver file, NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0274.*.tar.gz, had to be downloaded from http://download.asus.com.tw/ and manually installed.

Audio chipset not supported in Linux and no drivers available.

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