Hi All,
Hi Daniel
Hello guys...
I am buying a new machine (brand new i7 2600 processor, 8GB of RAM, intel H67 based motherboard) and I hope to run eComStation 2 in this machine. It will be here by april 20, so I am only guessing if it will work.
I just bought the same processor, but I chose an Intel P67 based motherboard. I have eCS 2 running, but currently not in a satisfactory manner.
Onboard LAN (Realtek R8111c) is not (yet) supported by the new eCS Realtek driver - although it is supported in the latest linux source, so it should be trivial to add support.
Sound is recognised by Uniaud 2.1.x but not Uniaud 1.9.x (due to higher ALSA version in 2.1.x)
SATA controller only works in generic mode until Danis506 is updated.
Widescreen activator doesn't recognise the CPU bridge but I'm in conversation with Robert Lalla on that issue and hope to have that resolved soon.
High IRQ loads are common - I believe this is due to system MTRR not being set correctly. Unfortunately whilst Lars Erdmann has a utility to set MTRR's - it's currently failing here with:
GRADD.SYS returns error 65330 in IOCTL call GRADDPDD_QUERYMTRR.Cannot query MTRRs.
and Lars is very busy right now.
Once all the above is resolved it should be a nice system

Just to update things... no real progress...
I have an updated atombios.sys - and can add 1920x1080 to the list of supported resolutions, however it doesn't work correctly.
A little hard to describe, but when booted to 1920x1080 - there is a strip of the desktop missing down both the LH and RH sides of the screen - enough so that the icons on the desktop on the LH are completely missing, as is the eCS button on the toolbar at the bottom of the screen.
Steven Levine sent me an updated danis506 with the Cougar Point SATA controller ID added, but it isn't being recognised yet.
System MTRR are still unable to be set.
Meanwhile, Ubuntu 10.10 works fantastically on the hardware, and eCS in Virtualbox flies

Cheers,
Paul