how is nforce linux support?

[Barnaby W. Füi]

i see that their linux drivers support nforce now, would you be able to use X using the nv driver??

and the sound and lan....is there any support for them, and if not, what's the outlook on future driver development?

 

[mcveigh]

I heard they were going to support it. I just wonder if a normal distro can get a basic install on it, with networking. If that was the case I guess you could fix/patch the rest

 

[RolyL]

Am I being dumb, or isn't the 'nvidia' driver in XF86Config-4 the one to choose, not 'nv', if using NVIDIA's latest drivers?

 

[BlvdKing]

<< Am I being dumb, or isn't the 'nvidia' driver in XF86Config-4 the one to choose, not 'nv', if using NVIDIA's latest drivers? >>



You are correct sir. Also, include the line Load "glx" under the modules section for 3D acceleration, if you want.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

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<< Am I being dumb, or isn't the 'nvidia' driver in XF86Config-4 the one to choose, not 'nv', if using NVIDIA's latest drivers? >>



You are correct sir. Also, include the line Load "glx" under the modules section for 3D acceleration, if you want. >>


but what i was asking was whether xf86's nv driver would work, or if you had to compile nvidia's driver to get it to work. i dont game in linux (and barely in windows) so having good performing 3d drivers is a non-issue to me.

 

[KenCleanAirSystem]

The nv driver should work fine. The onboard video is a garden variety Geforce2 MX chip. I doubt there are any optimized drivers for the north/south bridge motherboard chips or drivers for the onboard sound, but the default motherboard drivers should do fine, and you can always toss in a PCI sound card and disable the onboard sound.

EDIT -- Upon further inspection, it seems the on-board, though essentially a Geforce2 MX core, does differ in its memory architecture from the standard MX. The nv driver should work, if it is able to recognize that the core is a Geforce2 ... not sure if it would be able to recognize it correctly though.

Upon further, further investigation, the answer to the question is: anything older than the brand new release of XFree86 4.2.0 does not natively support the nforce graphics core. X 4.2.0 just came out within the last couple days though, so there are very few biaries available yet (looks like the only binaries posted so far are for BSD) so you'll have to either wait for Linux binaries to be released or compile from source.