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This is about the Asus P5K-VM, an motherboard equipped with Intel G33 and ICH9 devices.

[edit] BIOS settings

Initial BIOS version for the motherboard is 3.04. There is an update available Here.

• WARNING: Make sure that you upgrade the BIOS through the Asus EZ Flash 2 Utility that resides in the BIOS. Multiple users who tried upgrading their BIOS through the Windows-based utility saw a failure and had to send back their motherboard to Asus for replacement.

[edit] Initial set up

This mainboard is NOT supported by the Gentoo 2007.0 CDs (as of 25/08/2007). The SATA chipset is not supported by the 2007 Gentoo Livecd. You can use the Small Gentoo Custom livecd instead of the Gentoo 2007 livecd. You can grab it here.

[edit] Hardware

[edit] Hardware Status Overview

[edit] Kernel Config

[edit] Generic Stuff

[edit] SATA

lspci pending

See this guide. You need AHCI SATA support:

Device Drivers  --->
    Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) drivers  --->
        <*>   AHCI SATA support
        <*>   Intel ESB, ICH, PIIX3, PIIX4 PATA/SATA support

[edit] PATA

lspci

03:00.0 IDE interface: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMB368 IDE controller

See this guide. You need JMicron PATA support:

Device Drivers  --->
    Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) drivers  --->
        <*>   JMicron PATA support

[edit] X11 Graphics

lspci

<Needs confirmation>
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G965 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82G965 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)

See this guide.

[edit] Ethernet

See this guide.

[edit] Sound

lspci <pending>

Device Drivers  --->
    Sound  --->
        <M> Sound card support
            Advanced Linux Sound Architecture  --->
                <M> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
                    PCI devices  --->
                        <M> Intel HD Audio

For further configuration see the official Gentoo Linux ALSA Guide.

[edit] USB

lspci

<pending>

Device Drivers  --->
    USB support  --->
        <*> Support for Host-side USB
        [*]   USB device filesystem
        <*>   EHCI HCD (USB 2.0) support
        <*>   UHCI HCD (most Intel and VIA) support

For USB mass storage activate also:

Device Drivers  --->
    USB support  --->
        <M>   USB Mass storage support

and for a USB mouse/keyboard:

Device Drivers  --->
    HID Devices  --->
        --- Generic HID support
        --- USB Input Devices
        <*>   USB Human Interace Device (full HID) support

[edit] Firewire

Device Drivers  --->
    IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support --->
        <*> IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support
        <*>   OHCI-1394 support
        <*>   SBP-2 support (Harddisks etc.)

[edit] Framebuffer Graphics

<not tested>

[edit] Hardware Sensors

<not tested>

[edit] ACPI

Power management options (ACPI, APM)  --->
    [*] Power Management support
          ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) Support  --->
              [*] ACPI Support
              <*>   Button
              <*>   Processor

Install acpid to make use of your chassis buttons:

# emerge -a acpid

Then start acpid and add it to your runlevel:

# /etc/init.d/acpid
# rc-update add acpid default

[edit] Suspend

[edit] Supend To Disk

<not tested> WTO Software Suspend v2|Howto]]

[edit] Suspend To Ram

<NOT TESTED>

Processor type and features  --->
    [*] Support for suspend on SMP and hot-pluggable CPUs (EXPERIMENTAL)
Power management options (ACPI, APM)  --->
    [*] Power Management support
          ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) Support  --->
              [*] ACPI Support
              [*]   Sleep States

To suspend, just write 'mem' to /sys/power/state:

# echo -n "mem" > /sys/power/state