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nutxo

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am I gonna have mass troubles getting my nic and sound to woth under mandrake with my a7n8x? deluxe,..
 
They should work just fine.

I won't know exactly until I build my new A7N8X Deluxe based system in roughly a week or so (still deciding on CPU + RAM).

Nvidia just released new Linux nForce drivers: 1.0-0256. I'm a bit worried though that not everything will work flawlessly because that motherboard has so much functionality built-in.

I've already seen many reports that ACPI (essentially power management and some peripherals support) under Linux 2.4 is seriously flawed. That's at least the case with SuSE Linux, where ACPI used to be enabled under the default kernel, but apparently they recommend to disable ACPI nowadays for stability.

I don't know exactly what you lose without ACPI, but I would like to have suspend-to-RAM working 100% under Linux.

Report back here whatever your results are. I'd like to know. 😉
 
If the MD5 signatures match up, then you don't have to download again. Either your burner is not reliable, the media was faulty, or something else with your system needs tweaking. The first two problems are relatively unlikely, but not impossible.
 
lots of times cd burners go at the fastest speed possible, this is good for being quick, but it is rarely a good thing. Try to burn it at a lower speed, if you got a 45x or so try it at 30x or 20x or whatever. It's a lot easier for a burnt cd to crap out going at top speed. This is because the cd burner needs to have a constant stream of information, if at any point the buffer runs out or there is a pause as the OS freezes for a instant, the cdrom can't recover exactly were it left off burning.There is no error control, burning cd's is realy primitive way to write to a disk, if there is any reason a instantanous pause (like buggy windows opening IE and buggering up the OS for a split second) or buffer runs out there will be a gap and a good chance you have a new coaster. A audio cd player is realy crass thing compared to reading data disks so audio disks aren't usually affected by this a whole lot.

Also, you probably already know this, but you need to burn the *.iso files as a "image" to the cd disk, not just copy the iso onto the cdr drive...
 
Virtually every CD writer 12X speed or higher has some form of buffer underrun protection that recovers even when the data input stream is interrupted.

The only reason you need to burn at a lower speed is if your particular media is flaky (or simply won't burn at a higher speed), or for some picky stereo CD players.

For data CDs, I don't think it's ever strictly necessary if you have any newer CD writer with buffer underrun protection.
 
wasnt able to make nforce network to function but the 3com works great

now trying for hardware 3d acceleration
 
Originally posted by: nutxo
wasnt able to make nforce network to function but the 3com works great

now trying for hardware 3d acceleration
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The Nvidia NIC will work, but only if you download the drivers from Nvidia. They are not open-source drivers so they can't be bundled with the distros (unless that has changed since 9.0).

As for 3D, I hope you have an Nvidia card (other cards don't work on Nforce boards under Linux, yet). If you do have an Nvidia card, it shouldn't be a problem with the new installer (you may have to "rmmod NVdriver" and "insmod nvidia").
 
Originally posted by: nutxo
any new games ported for linux?
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I don't really follow this area, but last I heard, NWN finally released a beta Linux client. Except that it required extreme skill to install. I don't recall seeing any update since that Slashdot story.

So which video card are you using, and are you doing any substantive gaming under Linux with the new system?

I'm curious what level of support you're getting with nForce's Soundstorm. I'm planning on ditching my SB Live! when I upgrade, but I'd prefer to not lose 4-channel audio output.
 
I finally installed operating systems on my new A7N8X Deluxe-based system overnight. Very fast hardware, but I'm having a difficult problem.

I chose to stick with SuSE Linux, so 8.2 was installed (previously running 8.0 on my old P3 PC). First problem: the installer quickly FROZE at hardware detection when loading the default kernel.

Choosing the ACPI-disabled kernel proceeded smoothly through installation. The only changes I made were to change the partitioning scheme: /, /home, and /var XFS filesystems on an extended partition instead of one HUGE ReiserFS filesystem on a primary partition. Also, chose to run X-Windows at 1152x864 instead of 1600x1200. 😛 All my basic hardware was correctly detected, but some of the nForce2 components were not: namely onboard LAN. Anyhow, installation completed smoothly and quickly.

SuSE boots up quickly, kernel configured for ACPI disabled. The installer had configured onboard nForce MCP audio (specifically ALSA and the i810 driver). It works!

I install the nForce platform drivers (by single RPM) to get nVidia LAN working (an OSS audio driver is also included). Unfortunately, after making a 3-line change to /etc/modules.conf and rebooting, neither the nvnet or nvaudio kernel modules load. I determine that I can load them manually, but why would I want to? The nvaudio kernel modules does work; most likely, I'll switch back to ALSA, SuSE's default sound system unless I determine nVidia's driver has superior support for MCP-T (SoundStorm). I haven't connected the system to a LAN yet, so I can't confirm the nvnet driver does work as advertised. Nor why the kernel module doesn't autoload or the network interface brought up.

The major problem:
But my problem is that my ORiNOCO PC Card WiFi client won't work. I have a CardBus controller on a PCI slot; the PCMCIA subsystem appears to have been detected by Linux and installed. But the card never comes up. 🙁 Pulled out the ORiNOCO, and dropped in a D-Link DWL-650 PC Card. No dice either. The error message is really silly, and I'll consider pasting it into this message later but it's not very insightful. And I'd rather not go out and buy a USB client at this time (although it's a possibility).

I get a similar problem with Windows. Everything else works, but the PC Card WiFi client. Device Manager claims the ORiNOCO is disabled because of a "resource conflict", apparently an IRQ conflict. What confuses me is that the ACPI HAL is installed, so I'd assumed most add-on devices share IRQ 9. And the weird thing is that the "conflict" is between the IRQ assigned to the CardBus controller and the PC Card installed on that controller! So I think this is some weird configuration snafu rather than a genuine conflict that we all experienced back in the DOS/Win 9x days.

Right now, I'm a bit too lazy to pull the PCI CardBus controller and slap it back into the previous working setup to see what Device Manager looks like.

Anyhow, I'm much more concerned with Linux than Windows (gaming OS) but any leads are always appreciated. Since I haven't yet tweaked the OS any, I might try to install the latest Mandrake and Red Hat Linux distros to see if either one gives a 100% experience out of the box. SuSE Linux 8.0 installation did NOT setup wireless clients automatically either, but it wasn't difficult to do that post-installation.

I'll fork this off into a separate thread if it doesn't get any attention piggybacking here. 😉
 
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