On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 07:50, Leon Brooks wrote: > 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... > We can't. The sound is not a problem since nvaudio was just a patched i8x0 and the mods have been included in the original OSS and ALSA drivers. Unfortunately, there is a binary file needed to build the nvnet.o module and no one has the source of it. We can only wait for NVidia to make an rpm for the network card.
Until then, you need to build the nvet.o module separately. -- Quel Qun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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