I have a P4 2.8GHz(HT) PC with D915GAV intel motherboard, where i wanted to install Mandrake Linux 10.1 (community). Found to my dismay that several of the features are not supported/ dont work. Most annoying is multimedia not working.
AFAIK the D915x is a pretty new board, and bleeding edge HW can't be expected to run on any distro's kernel. Your drivers are most likely distributed with the latest kernel - 2.6.9. Download yourself a copy of the kernel from www.kernel.org (F), untar it, and run `make menuconfig`. there you'll have access to all the drivers and select what's missing from the M-10.1 distro kernel. You'll need to identify your HW: check /var/log/dmesg to see what the kernel found on your board - also download the D915x manual from the intel site which will describe the chips you need to support on the board.
you can also run hwinfo (see the manpage #man hwinfo ) to find out what hw is actually on the board.
anyways, by building your own kernel, you'll end up with a better/faster kernel without 100's of drivers you'll never use anyways, and a lot more
in understanding of what's under the hood there... Take your time and read the help for each item. You'll probably have to reconfig/rebuild 2-3 times to get it right - but hugely the wiser for yur effort.
HINT: when configing the krnl, you'll probably want to unselect most
of the pre-selected drivers and just tick those that you have
physically plugged into your box. You can either build them
as modules or build them directly into the kernel - for a home
PC the choice is yours.Go ahead - get yourself into a mess with it! getting out of it is where the real fun starts - and no need to worry, yur old kernel (from M-10.1 will not be overwritten...) BTW - once you build 'your own' kernel, you'll probably never want to run 'somebody elses' again (!)
Good luck...
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