ASUSTek P4BG-VM
Linux Compatibility Testing Results

System Type: Workstation
Test Completed: 2002-12-25

ASUSTek P4BG-VM 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 P4BG-VM:

SuSe 8.1

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 P4BG-VM
BIOS Revision	1003.002
Main Board and Chipset	Intel® 845G
Processor(s)	Intel® Pentium® 4 2.0G
RAM	DDR DRAM
HBA	IDE ATA Controller
Motherboard Features and Capabilities	None
Display Adapter	On-board BrookDale 845G
Serial Ports	Two (2) 16550 compatible
Parallel Ports	One (1) Enhanced Bi-directional
USB Ports	Two (2) USB 2
I/O Ports and buses	One (1) AGP Ports; Three (3) PCI Slots;
Host Bus Adapter	IDE ATA Controller
Network Interface	On-board RealTek 8101L
Audio Chipset / Sound Card	RealTek ALC101
Optical Drive	IDE ASUS; CDROM 50X
Hard Drive	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 PASSED
Advanced Sound Availibility PASSED
Advanced Sound Compatibility PASSED
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:

VIDEO - Upon initial installation some video issues were occurring. Portions of the screen did not rewrite and refresh correctly causing icons and text to be overwritten. When selecting a 16bit color depth, the system loaded at 640x480. Information from the Intel® website indicated that the i810 and VESA video driver only support Legacy memory and only up to 8MB of memory. The BIOS of this system defaults to allowing only 1MB of legacy ram. To correct the video issues, we set the BIOS to On board shared memory size to 8MB and set the driver in the SuSe display configuration to 8MB of ram. This corrected both issues noted above.

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