[mythtv-users] OT: nForce2 -- the real scoop

Jarod C. Wilson jcw at wilsonet.com
Wed Dec 24 01:33:42 EST 2003


On Dec 23, 2003, at 19:56, Ann Patterson wrote:

> I got a Biostar M7NCG 400 about two weeks ago, and I've spent most of
> the last two weeks sorting out this problem. The default install of FC1
> seems to have APIC and APCI enabled, and I had to pass "noapic nolapic
> pci=npapci" to the kernel to get things stable.

IO-APIC only. The main APIC part is still off by default. I didn't have 
to make any changes to my kernel or pass any special parameters to the 
kernel under either Red Hat Linux 9 or Fedora Core 1 to get a 
rock-solid nForce2 MythTV system (Chaintech 7NIF2 mobo, now running 
FC1/MythTV 0.13).

> For 2 days so far, anyway.

Several weeks for me, if not months. I forget when I bought the board.

> My personal opinion is that for the money, it isn't bad. But getting it
> running and stable isn't really for the faint of heart.

I think it depends a lot on experience and distro (the whole APIC 
mess...). It isn't perfect, but I've found it pretty close. :)

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

Got a question? Read this first...
     http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
MythTV, Fedora Core & ATrpms documentation:
     http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/
MythTV Searchable Mailing List Archive
     http://www.gossamer-threads.com/archive/MythTV_C2/
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: PGP.sig
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 186 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20031223/3e019966/PGP.pgp


More information about the mythtv-users mailing list