[mythtv-users] nForce2 motherboards

[Myster Man]

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. 

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

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.)
> 
> > And I've also
> > found that It works much better using the NVAGP than AGPGart.
> 
> I'm using AGPGART without problems at the moment, but I'm going to try 
> switching to NvAGP a bit later...
> 
> --Jarod