On Saturday 22 February 2003 03:49 pm, Rob Snow wrote: > Thanks for the reply, thats why I wanted to check. I've just done another > check and the nvnet and nvaudio will compile when I run with a cooker > system (done today) but with 9.0 kernel (19-16) and same sources. With > 21-8 to 21- 10 kernel/sources it dies. I can't get the specific info at > this time as the machine is remote to me until Monday and rebooting into > .21 will make it unavailable to me. > > My concern for Mandrake is that a cooker (9.1?) system will not run on > nforce2 (at least MSI K7N2) as it currently stands. I've done a 9.0 -> > cooker upgrade on this machine knowing the concequences so I had a working > nvnet/nvaudio on .19-16 around for failsafe. (audio not actually working, > but not my real concern...no net is fatal, no audio is annoying)
I am running 2.4.21pre4-1mdk on an nForce2-based 9.0 system, which is close enough to Cooker for modelling purposes. I told it to use an i810 audio driver, solved that. All of the nVidia kernel (build 4191, I also tried 3123) SRPMs failed to build out of the box, but I made a softlink from /lib/modules/2.4.21pre4-1mdk/build to /usr/src/linux-2.4.21pre4-1mdk and they (LAN and accelerated video) then became (and still are) happy. I've asked NVidia about OSing the drivers and got no reply. If sombody (wish I had the time) could rewrite the LAN driver as OSS, I could live with that: it would yield a 100% operational system from which you could then download the (proprietary, sigh) accelerated video drivers for performance bliss (as far as that goes with cheap all-in-one mobos) if you needed it. Very few of my servers actually *require* a fast 3D graphics display... I really could use a reasonable S3 video driver too, since that would make a lot of thin-client recycling projects much simpler. Cheers; Leon
