AMD Fusion support? Specifically, a single motherboard.

Democrab · 2011-04-03 00:49:09

How is support for the IGP in the AMD Fusion package? I want to buy a cheap, low power rig to replace my barely used high-power one and Fusion looks to be perfect, Atom is far too slow.
The motherboard I want to get is the ASUS E35M1-I Deluxe, the WiFi card is Azurewave AW-NE785H (Atheros AR9285 chipset) which I'm fairly sure is supported and I want to get an Auzentech X-Fi Forte 7.1 PCIe sound card and use OSS4, would this work?

And finally, is USB3 fully supported? And how do you use TRIM under Arch? While I don't think it would, does it have any limitation based off what file system I'm using? I want an SSD with this and I use reiserfs for /var and while it won't be on the SSD, I'll have another hard drive for my other files (Mostly large stuff) which will be formatted to XFS.

thestinger · 2011-04-03 03:34:40

You can find all this information on the ArchWiki or by doing a quick search.

This should answer your SSD questions:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Solid_State_Drives

You need kernel 2.6.38 for AMD fusion, which is in [testing], see here:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a … e350&num=1

As for the sound card, why not use the motherboard sound? AFAIK X-Fi offers no acceleration on linux and digital sound output will be the same quality regardless of the sound card (not so for analog, but a new cable should be cheaper than a sound card).

Democrab · 2011-04-03 05:40:43

I've read there were issues with Fusion even on 2.6.38 though, I was wondering if anyone could shed any more light on that?

And the quality of the sound dramatically improves with a decent sound-card, it doesn't matter so much about cables, etc
I'd rather the ASUS Xonar Essence STX but I said the X-Fi to it being the best low-profile card I could get, however I've switched cases and can now fit one, so does the Xonar Essence STX work with OSS4?

thestinger · 2011-04-03 05:52:13

Democrab wrote:

I've read there were issues with Fusion even on 2.6.38 though, I was wondering if anyone could shed any more light on that?
And the quality of the sound dramatically improves with a decent sound-card, it doesn't matter so much about cables, etc
I'd rather the ASUS Xonar Essence STX but I said the X-Fi to it being the best low-profile card I could get, however I've switched cases and can now fit one, so does the Xonar Essence STX work with OSS4?

The analog sound quality improves with a good sound card, but the digital sound output is identical unless the card is "enhancing" the audio with an equalizer, virtual surround sound and stuff along those lines. I was suggesting you use a digital audio cable rather than analog ones that depend on a good sound card for quality. You might get better latency with dedicated hardware (and of course less CPU use), but not quality anymore unless it means avoiding resampling because it has native support for the rates you need.

here's a list of supported cards:
http://manuals.opensound.com/devlists/Linux.html

Last edited by thestinger (2011-04-03 05:58:48)

Democrab · 2011-04-03 08:26:25

Edit: Sorry, a friend changed/edited this post...

Anyway, the actual sound isn't always output perfectly by motherboard integrated sound solutions, even on digital (Only use rarely though) I notice a difference.
Thanks for that list, the chipset is on it (ASUS AV100) but the problem is it uses a bridge chip to convert to PCIe? I can't find any Fusion boards with PCI, so yeah.

Last edited by Democrab (2011-04-03 10:18:44)

keenerd · 2011-04-03 11:52:46

thestinger wrote:

You need kernel 2.6.38 for AMD fusion, which is in [testing]

Ugh, I am tired of people saying this. None of my fusion systems are running 2.6.38. You only need 2.6.38 if you want to run the accelerated open source video driver. If you are happy with Catalyst or Vesa, any old kernel will work.

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Democrab · 2011-04-03 12:23:01

keenerd wrote:

thestinger wrote:
You need kernel 2.6.38 for AMD fusion, which is in [testing]
Ugh, I am tired of people saying this. None of my fusion systems are running 2.6.38. You only need 2.6.38 if you want to run the accelerated open source video driver. If you are happy with Catalyst or Vesa, any old kernel will work.

So if I use the fglrx drivers, I'll be fine? Assuming they work of course.

I don't like using open source drivers if theres a better option anyway...

beroal · 2011-11-19 16:53:37

Does somebody run Arch Linux on AMD Fusion A-series processors, specifically on A4 or A6? I'm interested only in these. Does hardware video decoding (UVD), hardware 3D rendering, audio output from HDMI work? (I know that this thread is old, but I don't want to create another thread with an unclear aim…)

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signor_rossi · 2011-11-20 10:32:44

beroal wrote:

Does somebody run Arch Linux on AMD Fusion A-series processors, specifically on A4 or A6? I'm interested only in these. Does hardware video decoding (UVD), hardware 3D rendering, audio output from HDMI work? (I know that this thread is old, but I don't want to create another thread with an unclear aim…)

The best place to get info about these kind of things is phoronix.com.

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#1 2011-04-03 00:49:09

AMD Fusion support? Specifically, a single motherboard.

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