On Thursday 20 March 2003 12:12 pm, Gianluca Insolvibile wrote:
> Respected gentoo-ers,
>
> first off, apologies for the slightly OT question.
>
> I'm considering buying an ASUS A7N8x (Del) motherboard, based on the
> nForce2 chipset. As far as I understood, some features (UltraATA,
> SerialATA, sound, network) of this chipset are not directly supported
> by the kernel and binary-only modules by nVidia are needed. Google
> searches provided me with confusing info on this matter. Has anyone
> had direct experience with an nForce2-based system running
> gentoo-patched kernels ?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Gianluca
>
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I just built this system with a Leadtek K7NCR18D-pro board and an
AthlonXP2100+ proc. The install had one hitch that had me bothered.
>From the live CD i had to type gentoo no-net at the boot prompt. The
1.4-r3 live CD has the nForce nic drivers and will automagicly load
them. The board WILL NOT boot from a r2 CD. Because the nvnet driver is
not fully open, you will have to emerge nvnet-1.0-0248-r2 before
rebooting to your kernel or you won't have the nic driver. Alternatly,
you can d'load and install from source (no ebuild)
nforce-1.0-0248.tar.gz (This includes sound drivers and ultra ATA.)
Sound works pretty good, though the SPDIF connector doesn't work yet
and there is no lm-sensor support other than the CVS version 2.8.0.
That should be fixed very soon. It's a good solid board that overclocks
well or so I've been told (4 buddies bought the same mobo/proc.) It
preforms well with my GeForce4 TI4200 which was the reason I changed
over from a VIA based board in the first place
uname -r
2.4.20-gentoo-r
I AM still having problems with USB mass storage but haven't spent a lot
of time working on it
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