MB:MI945A

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Driver Support

O.S. VGA IDE SATA Audio USB COM LAN Giga LAN TV-out Video-in Mini PCI Mini PCIE WDT/DIO Download Patch

Ubuntu 8.04

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

  • All supported by kernel

Fedora Core 8

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

  • Audio
  • The remaining from the core support

Fedora core 9

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

  • All Devices supported by kernel

Video-In Devices still not supported

Suse10.2

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

-

Yes

-

-

-

-

-

-

  • support by kernel

Windows XP Embedded

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Ubuntu 9.10

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

-

-

-

No

Suppered by kernel

Debian 6.0

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

-

Yes

Yes

Yes

  • Kernel Default support

FreeBSD 9

Yes

-

Yes

No

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

-

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FAQ for MI945A

What's CPU can be paired with 945GME Series MB?

Ans:
  • Celeron M processor ULV: 423
  • Celeron M processor: 440, 530, 550
  • Core Duo processor LV: L2400
  • Core Duo processor: U2500, T2500
  • Core 2 Duo processor: L7400, T7400
  • Core 2 Duo processor ULV: U7500
Patch File:

N/A

Defect:

N/A

Asker:

Eric Wu 18:07, 21 April 2008 (CST)

Provider:

Eric Wu 18:07, 21 April 2008 (CST)

May we be possibly able to test the software, VMware, on MI945A under OpenSuse 10.2(1Host+1Guest)?

Ans:
  • We can install vmware server 2.0 on MI945A under Suse 10.2.
  • We can build stansard XP as a guest os on the vmware server, but we can’t build XPE on it.
  • So we suggest customer build standard xp on it.
Patch File:

N/A

Defect:

N/A

Asker:

Patty Chen 10:57, 28 November 2008 (CST)

Provider:

Patty Chen 10:57, 28 November 2008 (CST)

How can MI945 support Dual CRT output in Linux?

Ans:
  • In Fedora Core 7,can use the driver and follow the steps to do Dual CRT Output: 
1.disable SELinux
   System -> Administration -> SELinuxManagement
   Choose "Disabled" in "System Default Enforcing Mode"
 

2.Extract FC7_Dual_CRT_Output.tar.gz
  #tar zcvf FC7_Dual_CRT_output
  #cd FC7_Dual_CRT_output
 
3.Install the driver
  #./installiegd.sh
 
4.Copy the Xorg.conf file
  *two clone display:
  #cp clone.x /etc/X11/xorg.conf
  *dual external display:
  #cp dih.x /etc/X11/xorg.conf

5.reboot
  #reboot


  • In Fedora Core 8 and Fedora Core 9,can use xrandr to do Dual CRT Output: 
If you want to have two clone display , you can do the following steps:

#vi /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/localuser.sh
put the following 3 lines into the end of localuser.sh as follow picture.
xrandr --output LVDS --off
xrandr --output VGA --preferred
xrandr --output VGA-2 --preferred

Image:clone.jpg

#Ctrl+Alt+BackSpace



If you want to have dual external display , you can do the following steps:

#vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Add "Virtual 4000 4000" in the "screen" section as follow picture.

Image:xorg.jpg

#vi /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/localuser.sh 
put the following 2 lines into the end of localuser.sh .
xrandr --output LVDS --off
xrandr --output VGA --right-of VGA-2

Image:left-of.jpg

#Ctrl+Alt+BackSpace

About xrandr ,you can do #xrandr --output VGA --mode 1024x768  --left-of VGA-2 --mode 1024x768
                                                ↑ Mode used       ↑ Left is used 
                                                  to set            to set position
                                                  resolution.       of VGA-2.You 
                                                                    can use --left-of
                                                                            --right-of
                                                                            --above
                                                                            --below

Other distributions can not support Dual CRT Output.

Patch File:

N/A

Defect:

N/A

Asker:

Patty 12:14, 23 March 2009 (CST)

Provider:

Patty 12:14, 23 March 2009 (CST)

How to get CPU temperature

Ans:

In Terminal:
1.#apt-get update
2.#apt-get install lm-sensors
3.#sensors-detect
4.#vi /etc/modules
5.Insert the belows to /etc/modules

   coretemp
   it87
   i2c-viapro
   eeprom

6.#sensors

Patch File:

N/A

Defect:

N/A

Asker:

"Robert & 2010/12/08"

Provider:

"Steve & 2010/12/08"

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