Re: Linux & MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (nForce3 Ultra) questions...

From: Morningdew (yahooaddyismorning42dew_at_spam.free)
Date: 01/13/05

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    Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 05:19:47 -0600

    morningdew wrote:
    > Adiemo wrote:
    >
    >>> anyway.... I have an MSI k8N Neo2 Platinum motherboard coming and
    >>> wondered if anyone out there has experiences with Linux on this board.
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >> Debian works like a charm!
    >>
    >>
    >
    > Thanks - that is good to hear. Esp. because I am pretty determined to
    > run some flavor of Debian on it (though I may double boot to a Fedora
    > for edu-ma-cational purposes).
    >
    > By the way, you guys on this newsgroup are very fast with replies and
    > very kind. Thank you.
    >
    > morningdew

    As a follow-up, the board did arrive last month and I am running Ubuntu
    on it. I gave up on the 64-bit version for the time being. Nvidia is
    gracious enough to supply the 64bit mobo drivers, but ATI does not
    supply a 64-bit version of the video driver for my Radeon 9800 Pro
    (alas). I have only one serious problem with this system that I have
    not been able to resolve... I cannot use my SATA hard drive. I managed
    to get rid of the chatty output of sata_nv in dmesg by disabling the
    second (unconnected) SATA pair in BIOS. But trying to actually write
    info to my SATA drive (including just getting the partitioning done)
    errors out. Researching this, it appears that an NVidia developer is
    working on the sata_nv module. So I have hope. The 250Gb Western
    Digital SATA drive is presently making for an awfully expensive
    paperweight while I wait. All and all, though, I am extremely pleased
    with both the MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum and with the Ubuntu Debian
    derivative distro.

    Peace,
    Morningdew

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