Linux problems with Gaming motherboards?

[Johnmakuta]

Does Linux have problems with high end gaming motherboards? Such as not being able to use their wifi-cards, logic processors, etc. I have an MSI Godlike Gaming motherboard and I have finally become so annoyed with Windows that I want to move to Linux and just play Windows games in a VM or through Wine but when I installed Ubuntu on a flash drive and booted from it...... Well all these things happened:

• I couldn't get any internet signal even though I had it through Ethernet
• i couldn't boot from any of my drives or install Ubuntu on to them due to "wrong kind of partition"
• it didn't like my Corsair K95 very much
• I couldn't access a lot of stuff and I just generally was annoyed.

Help? I'm a bit of a Linux noob so these could all just be me.

 

[Enderman]

linus takes a lot of research and learning and finding 3rd party drivers that will work with your stuff

because most motherboard manufacturers dont provide linux drivers

[swordsman247]

14 minutes ago, Johnmakuta said:

Does Linux have problems with high end gaming motherboards? Such as not being able to use their wifi-cards, logic processors, etc. I have an MSI Godlike Gaming motherboard and I have finally become so annoyed with Windows that I want to move to Linux and just play Windows games in a VM or through Wine but when I installed Ubuntu on a flash drive and booted from it...... Well all these things happened:

• I couldn't get any internet signal even though I had it through Ethernet
• i couldn't boot from any of my drives or install Ubuntu on to them due to "wrong kind of partition"
• it didn't like my Corsair K95 very much
• I couldn't access a lot of stuff and I just generally was annoyed.

Help? I'm a bit of a Linux noob so these could all just be me.

 

There seems to be no Linux support for that motherboard on the msi web page. What I have found with linux is unless the mfg. supports it with drivers. Only hardware that will run on generic drivers seems to work.

[LAwLz]

18 minutes ago, Johnmakuta said:

I couldn't get any internet signal even though I had it through Ethernet

Sounds like you are missing a driver. Look up which WiFi chip your motherboard has and download that.

 

19 minutes ago, Johnmakuta said:

i couldn't boot from any of my drives or install Ubuntu on to them due to "wrong kind of partition"

Probably because it is formatted as NTFS. It should automatically create a new one and format it though. I think you are missing some step when you are doing the installation.

 

20 minutes ago, Johnmakuta said:

it didn't like my Corsair K95 very much

Why not? It should work with the generic keyboard driver just fine.

Not sure if Corsair has any GNU/Linux drivers for the customization software, but from what I know it seems like that is saved in memory on the keyboard, so you might not even need the drivers for anything more than programming it in the first place.

 

21 minutes ago, Johnmakuta said:

I couldn't access a lot of stuff and I just generally was annoyed.

Access what kind of stuff? You should be able to access anything if you are root, but you shouldn't have to for most tasks.

[Trik'Stari]

I had trouble with Ubuntu. At first everything was fine, then my sound stopped working entirely. Couldn't ever find out why.

[steezemageeze]

Well when you're booted in a live environment, you don't have very many privileges, which may be why you "can't access a lot of stuff". Also, if that mobo has Killer NIC, I'm pretty sure you're screwed (afaik there's little/no support for Killer) unless that's the board that you can replace the NIC on. As for installing, you could try using Gparted to wipe the drive (but I'd refrain from that if you're not totally committed to switching.)

[Trik'Stari]

11 minutes ago, steezemageeze said:

Well when you're booted in a live environment, you don't have very many privileges, which may be why you "can't access a lot of stuff". Also, if that mobo has Killer NIC, I'm pretty sure you're screwed (afaik there's little/no support for Killer) unless that's the board that you can replace the NIC on. As for installing, you could try using Gparted to wipe the drive (but I'd refrain from that if you're not totally committed to switching.)

My board uses a Killer NIC, I had no issues connecting to the internet. Ubuntu did everything on its own just fine.

 

Then again, that's Ubuntu.

[steezemageeze]

Just now, Trik'Stari said:

My board uses a Killer NIC, I had no issues connecting to the internet.

Huh. Maybe it's mobile NICs that don't work/work well. Not really sure about that, just something I heard somewhere.

[Trik'Stari]

1 minute ago, steezemageeze said:

Huh. Maybe it's mobile NICs that don't work/work well. Not really sure about that, just something I heard somewhere.

I've heard there are a LOT of problems with mobile NIC's on Linux. A lot of problems with Laptops in general.

[steezemageeze]

Just now, Trik'Stari said:

I've heard there are a LOT of problems with mobile NIC's on Linux. A lot of problems with Laptops in general.

Yeah I just looked at the Ubuntu Supported Hardware page, and it seems like Broadcom and Intel are basically the only two that are widely supported.

[MEC-777]

8 hours ago, Johnmakuta said:

Does Linux have problems with high end gaming motherboards? Such as not being able to use their wifi-cards, logic processors, etc. I have an MSI Godlike Gaming motherboard and I have finally become so annoyed with Windows that I want to move to Linux and just play Windows games in a VM or through Wine but when I installed Ubuntu on a flash drive and booted from it...... Well all these things happened:

• I couldn't get any internet signal even though I had it through Ethernet
• i couldn't boot from any of my drives or install Ubuntu on to them due to "wrong kind of partition"
• it didn't like my Corsair K95 very much
• I couldn't access a lot of stuff and I just generally was annoyed.

Help? I'm a bit of a Linux noob so these could all just be me.

 

The "more common" the hardware you're using, the better the Linux support will be. There can be issues with niche or high-end motherboards like this with driver support because they are uncommon and fairly new (basically nobody has compiled the drivers for it yet because the low demand and user base of such products is so low).