[mythtv-users] nForce2 motherboards

[Jarod C. Wilson]

> On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 12:38, Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
>> On Saturday, Oct 18, 2003, at 07:10 US/Pacific, Myster Man wrote:
>>
>>> I too am running the Chaintech 7NIF2, and I am very pleased with it,
>>> but
>>> one word of caution for anyone who's looking at this board. I first
>>> thought this board was bad, cause linux couldn't access the real time
>>> clock, but apparently you just have to have kernel version 2.4.22 
>>> with
>>> the nforce support in it. So if you are planning on using a
>>> distribution
>>> with an older kernel this board will not work for you.
>>
>> What distribution? I think people using the latest released Red Hat
>> kernel should also be fine, because Red Hat back-ports anything
>> significant like that. (The latest Red Hat kernel in Rawhide is
>> 2.4.22-based, the latest released kernel is 2.4.20-based, but like I
>> said, they back-port all the goodies.)

On Saturday, Oct 18, 2003, at 11:28 US/Pacific, Myster Man wrote:

> Well let's just see I tried mandrake 9.1 redhat 9.0 debian unstable and
> a few others to get it working originally. but all of those at the time
> were on the 2.4.20 or 21 kernel. 22 wasn't even out yet.

Hm... Still working like a charm here for me on RHL9 w/a 2.4.20 Red Hat 
(ATrpms) kernel. Perhaps nForce2 driver versions have something to do 
with it also. I dunno. I'm just happy mine works. :)

> Well I was having some odd little problems that were somewhat sporadic
> using the agpgart driver.  I haven't noticed them since I switched to
> the NVAGP driver. plus my cpu utilization seems to have gone down
> somewhat after the switch. May not be completely related to the agpgart
> driver, because I had it compiled into the kernel accidentally, so I 
> had
> to recompile, but the only change I made was to change the agpgart to
> module.

I still haven't switched over to NvAGP yet. Will do so tomorrow, along 
with a few other tweaks I want to try...

> However that change made me recompile ivtv, alsa, and lirc. so
> who knows.

New kernel pretty much always means new kernel modules.

--Jarod

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