Re: Asus Nforce2 + Debian Woody Installation ?

From: bgeer (bgeer_at_xmission.com)
Date: 08/20/03 

Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 00:29:59 +0000 (UTC)

Angela Kahealani <angela@kahealani.com> writes:

>Rui Pedro wrote:
>>
>> Hi all !!!
>>
>> Have anyone been able to install Debian Woody 3-0r1 on an Asus Nforce2
>> A7N8x motherboard, I'm having problems , tried to compile an 2.4.21

>2.4.20 Kernel from RedHat9 installs and runs.
>IDE DMA and Hardware SATA RAID don't work yet,
>so for now disk access isn't real fast.
>It may not be Debian, but it runs.

2.4.21 correctly identifies Nforce2. I'm running it on ShuttleX w/
FN41 board. Be sure to download audio, network, & nvgart drivers from
www.nvidia.com & follow installation procedures which aren't difficult
but a pain in the ass - nvidia should give the source to the kernel
folk.

My FN41 also has geforce4 mx video onboard - getting nvidia's driver
to work has been a pain but it works finally. XFree's nv driver works
fine enough for straight 2d stuff so I almost gave up on nvidia's
driver, but looks like I may finally have it running.

Good luck 

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