Hi Narfi, > Todd and Mark: can you please share with me why you did this? > I had a brief opportunity to play with a board with the nforce2 chipset, namely > the Asus a7n8x deluxe motherboard, and it booted the 9.0 kernel without any > problems.
That sounds good.. as with the ASUS A7N266-VM motherboard, on first boot without the "mem=" stuff in Lilo Mandrake 9.0 would free on that motherboard. > Was the difficulty in getting the 9.0 installed properly or in the bootup with > an installed kernel? > What else did these 2 workarounds give you? [I.e. the mem=<total memory - memory > of graphics card> or going to a cooker kernel]. > > Can people please share what they have working on motherboards with this chipset? > Has anyone got usb 2.0 working with this chipset? I presume that would require > one to go to a cooker kernel. I believe the nforce driver off the Nvidia site may of had this working.. but I really didn't have anything to try this with. > What about firewire? Sorry don't know much about that one. > Or the LAN? I got the NVidia LAN working by using the proprietary driver, but > has anyone tried to get the 3Com LAN working or managed not to use the > proprietary driver for the NVidia LAN? Didn't try.. I was quite happy with the binary one. > Does anyone have the sound working without the properietary driver? I had a > kernel freeze when I modprobe'd the i810_audio driver. Oops didn't look.. was just using the proprietary divers Cheers Mark
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