Does anyone use an nForce2 motherboard?

[Richard Gray]

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I have a MSI K7N420 Pro, which has the Nvidia network card, sound, and the 
nForce2 video.  There are a few things you will want to do before 
installing on an nForce2 mboard.  

1. You will need to be running a 2.4 kernel.  They really only support 
Mandrake 8.1-8.2, RedHat 7.2-7.3, and SuSE 8.0.
2. Use lilo for your boot loader.  Grub will fail to boot with some memory 
error. 
3. Make sure you have binutils and gcc installed.  I know, most people 
install these by default, but I've been on linux systems that don't have 
them.
4. Go to http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_nforce_1.0-0241 and 
download the kernel source file.  Just about anyone who used the pre-built 
rpm's had problems, including me, until I downloaded the source and 
compiled it myself.  This will build the usb, network, and sound 
kernel modules. 
5. Go to http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_display_1.0-3123 and 
download the source package to compile the video driver. 

I downloaded the packages before I installed and put them on a CD.  I 
booted into init 3 after the install, compiled them, rebooted and all was 
pretty much ok.  I did have some strange problems with the sound card, but 
I can't remember how I resolved them.  Nvidia actually has a linux support 
bulletin board on their website that may be able to help with any other 
issues you might come across.  

I know the install isn't quite plug and play, but I haven't had any 
problems with my system.

Richard Gray
richard@cyscapes.org

On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Mark Berkwitt wrote:

> Does anyone use an nForce2 motherboard?
> 
> If so, are there any know problems with linux?
> 
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