Re: should I give nforce2 a miss for linux?

From: Eric (no email)
Date: 10/16/03 

Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 05:49:29 GMT

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:31:14 +0100, baskitcaise
<baskitcaise@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Eric <> wrote:
>
>> I have a motherboard that has the Nvidia Nforce2 chipset, like your
>> Epox does. I have been having trouble getting Nvidia's drivers
>> installed (specifically, the network driver). Whenever I try to
>> compile the network driver, it reports some error and fails. This has
>> happened to me on RedHat and Slackware. Did you experience any
>> troubles like this?
>>
>> Eric
>
>Eric what is the error? can`t help if you don`t supply a bit more info.

Well, I got the network driver working. It turns out that I just
needed to do a modprobe nvnet. However, since installing the nForce
drivers for Linux, I can't seem to compile my kernel or get the audio
working. When I tried compiling the kernel with the settings
specified in the instructions, GCC failed with a segmentation fault at
one point. Also, when my machine boots into Linux, I noticed warnings
regarding the audio device. I tried installing the audio module using
modprobe and insmod, which gave me errors as well.

Running modprobe nvaudio gave me the following output:
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/sound/nvaudio.o: init_module: No
such device
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/sound/nvaudio.o: Hint: insmod
errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid
IO or IRQ parameters.
      You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/sound/nvaudio.o: insmod
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/sound/nvaudio.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/sound/nvaudio.o: insmod nvaudio
failed

and running insmod nvaudio gave me this output:
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/sound/nvaudio.o: unresolved symbol
ac97_probe_codec
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/sound/nvaudio.o: unresolved symbol
ac97_set_dac_rate
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/sound/nvaudio.o: unresolved symbol
ac97_set_adc_rate
Using /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/sound/nvaudio.o

These are the problems I'm experiencing with the nForce2 drivers.
Have you experienced such problems compiling the kernel or installing
the modules?

Eric

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