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mwigzell

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Registered: 2016-01-29

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[SOLVED] Motherboard ASUS ROG STRIX Z490-E i9 10900K with Arch?

I'm thinking of purchasing above mentioned board, I would like to know if ARCH will run on it?
Intel® I225-V 2.5Gb Ethernet:  I've read of some issue "no connectivity on reboot", not sure if that issue is resolved?
See Intel Network Issue
Wifi : 2.4Gbps data rate, CNVI interface, channel bandwidth HT20/HT40/HT80/HT160
Bluetooth: v5.1
Audio: ROG SupremeFX8-Channel High Definition Audio CODEC S1220A

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Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] Motherboard ASUS ROG STRIX Z490-E i9 10900K with Arch?

That network issue appears to be a firmware issue. On linux that controller uses the igc kernel module.
[1] indicates it is possible (but ricky) to update the firmware in linux.

Looking at https://rog.asus.com/motherboards/rog-s … model/spec I don't see things that won't work in linux.

There's one issue for all OSes though : hdmi 1.4 and dispayport 1.4 are not exactly the latest versions of those standards.
If you want to use screens above FullHD, you'll need a discrete videocard.

[1] https://askubuntu.com/questions/1244745 … gc#1251669

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mwigzell

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Re: [SOLVED] Motherboard ASUS ROG STRIX Z490-E i9 10900K with Arch?

Thanks for researching this. I will go ahead and purchase board. I will report back when I get it built

d_fajardo

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Re: [SOLVED] Motherboard ASUS ROG STRIX Z490-E i9 10900K with Arch?

There's one issue for all OSes though : hdmi 1.4 and dispayport 1.4 are not exactly the latest versions of those standards.
If you want to use screens above FullHD, you'll need a discrete videocard.

The displayport 1.2 of my Z270 chipset with integrated graphics renders 4K without problem. Also the rog specs does say it has max resolution of 4096 x 2304 @60Hz.

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] Motherboard ASUS ROG STRIX Z490-E i9 10900K with Arch?

I should have been more accurate, DP 1.4 can drive 8k screens, but HDMI 1.4 is more limited.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort#1.4
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#Refr … dard_video

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mwigzell

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Re: [SOLVED] Motherboard ASUS ROG STRIX Z490-E i9 10900K with Arch?

Hey guys, I just wanted to report back: I have bought and built the ASUS ROG as described above. I am running 5.11.1-arch1 kernel, and all is well. Everything initialized properly to my surprise and delight. The ethernet device appears fine, even after rebooting. Case closed I'd say.

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] Motherboard ASUS ROG STRIX Z490-E i9 10900K with Arch?

great, please prepend [Solved] to the title .(edit first post)

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