Hello All, I thought I would tell some of my adventures with 2.6 kernel and with a Shuttle XPC NFORCE/GeForce 4 MX build in. I am a new gentoo user, recently switch over from RedHat. :) I figure this information could be worth to someone else.
First, I was sucessfull in using both the linux-2.6.0-test9 sources and linux-2.6.0-mm3 sources. When using either of these sources, stay with the nforce-net driver. The built in driver nforce 10/100 in the mm3 sources is buggy. I would be able to use networking, but ssh would drop connections with it and was flaky. There's a nforce-net driver in portage that has 2.6 changes in it to work. It's nforce-net-1.0.0261-r2.ebuild. The steps are usualy this order: 1) compile kernel without NFORCE-NET in the kernel. The rest of the NFORCE chipset works. 2) install kernel, then emerge nvidia-kernel (for 2.6 driver support) and then emerge nforce-net-1.0.0261-r2.ebuild I have zero luck getting the frame buffer to work in the SN41G2's IGP GeForce 4 MX chipset. I have tried just about everything. Vesa FB just doesn't seem to work, nor does it detect correctly off the 1.4 live cd. Keeps asking you to scan/pick a mode. I've given up at this for a time. It seems there are several other people with this issue on the boards I read around. Perhaps one of the kernel's will have a fix/support. If anyone has gotten this vesa to work, drop me a mail please. I hope the above info helps someone. I am happy using Gentoo so far! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
