Mark Lane wrote: > I would recommend the Nforce2 Board over any other single processor AMD > board. Even with the closed source drivers, it's faster and runs much > more stable. The best deal on an NForce2 board I have seen is BioStar's.
do you have any experience with the original nforce, if so how does nforce2 compare?
It's much better than the original
I know with the original nforce it also required a binary driver for the onboard NIC and a patch for one of the standard sounds drivers (intel i810 or something like that), but I could never get any better than udma2 from the ide controller.
You still have to use their drivers though you should be able to compile them for what ever kernel.
The sound drivers didn't compile for the newest RedHat Kernel but Alsa has support for the Nvidia Drivers so you may have to install those. The easiest way to install was from the RPM but with RedHat 9 the RPM doesn't install because of the compiling errors while compiling the audio driver. Interestly enough, it does compile the network driver so all you have to do is go into the build directory they use and run make install to install that.
We haven't noticed the same dma issues with NForce 2 that existed with the original.
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