Does anyone use an nForce2 motherboard?

[Mark Berkwitt]

Thanks for the reply. I was just scouting around to see if there were
problems before I buy.  With your reply I've pretty well decided to try
another, simpler solution(motherboard).
Thanks again.:)

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> Gray
> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 9:37 PM
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> Subject: Re: Does anyone use an nForce2 motherboard?
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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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