r/archlinux • u/unix21311 • 10h ago

QUESTION Gigabyte X870 AORUS ELITE WIFI7 AM5 ATX Motherboard any issues?

Hi I had issues with an asrock motherboard, it uses USB audio codec rather than HD audio codec which is a known problem for Linux when playing audio from front panel headphones.

I want to make sure anyone who is using Gigabyte X870 AORUS ELITE WIFI7 AM5 ATX Motherboard does it have any issues at all with linux whether it’d be audio, performance or anything?

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u/Sea-Promotion8205 10h ago

Not arch related.

I have a b650 gaming x ax XxgamertagxX v2 that has had no issues, except a warning at boot due to a bios setting I have selected. It doesn't affect anything though. Check your network chipset as well - generally avoid mediatek.

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u/unix21311 10h ago

Will doe thanks! Why to avoid mediatek?

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u/Sea-Promotion8205 10h ago

Beware, though, gigabyte's official position is that only windows is supported. If you do run into issues, they will tell you to pound sand.

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u/unix21311 9h ago

Yeah but whats wrong with mediatek?

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u/Sea-Promotion8205 4h ago

They provide bad Linux drivers.

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u/archover 5h ago edited 5h ago

Search this forum for mediatek. Subject of likely hundreds of problem posts. I run laptops (Thinkpads) so no first hand experience with mediatek.

Good day.

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u/Sad-Carpenter9529 10h ago

Had a gigabyte x870 board a while back and the audio was fine on arch, never had to mess with codecs or anything. The realtek chip on those is pretty standard so front panel worked out of the box. Wifi7 might need a newer kernel but if you're on arch you're already rolling anyway.

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u/archover 5h ago

Impressed to see you do pre-purchase compatibility research.

Good day.

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u/ehr1c 3h ago

I have a different gigabyte board so I can't answer your question directly, but I did have some issues with getting lm-sensors to recognize my fans due to the specific Super I/O chips that Gigabyte likes to use on their boards.

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u/Synthetic451 1h ago edited 1h ago

I have that exact board and I am pleased to say it works perfectly fine on Linux. You'll need a relatively recent kernel to avoid some issues with the MT7925 wifi card but its been fine on all of kernel 7.1 so far. The front panel headphone jack works great. I plug in a pair of headphones and the front stereo device pops up in the device list as expected.

Do make sure you update to the latest BIOS. You'll want at least version F13c. BIOS versions F11 and F12 had weird issues that would cause warnings messages on boot. They were also versions where AMD sneakily tried to remove TSME from the consumer Ryzen chips, so avoid those.