nforce and Linux- best distro?

[gsiener]

I'm trying to set up a myth tv box, and I'm having a hard time figuring out which distro to use with an Asus A7n266-vm.

I tried Gentoo, but I'm not a fan (or rather, I am a huge fan but I'm not proficient enough to use it). I've tried Redhat but it doesn't want to play nice with my board (can't use usb or it hangs, ethernet refuses to be recognizes despite several rpm driver installs). I'm about to try Mandrake, but I'd rather not.

I don't understand why these distro installations can't just add the source files for the nvidia drivers? I realize they are not "open source" but they're still there, and anyone can compile them. I'm just trying to do this in a small box and hate to waste a cd just to bring a file over. Any suggestions?

Thanks, Graham

 

[AnonymouseUser]

I had a problem with USB and Mandrake 9.0 and 9.1 on the same mobo. Enter the BIOS and disable "Legacy USB support", or use a secondary controller for the USB device/s.

Network worked fine after the nForce drivers were installed via rpm, but DMA isn't enabled in the kernel for the nForce chipsets yet so you will have to enable dma on startup.