[mythtv-users] Re:nForce2 motherboards

[Vinton Coffman]

I run the plain vanilla kernel 2.4.22 from kernel.org,  cvs alsa, a  
GeForce4 440MX video card w/ nVidia 4363 video drivers and NVAGP, and  
nForce driver 0248 on RedHat 9.0 with KDE desktop.

I only build the nvnet.o driver from the NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0248.tar.gz  
package.  You have to be running the kernel you want to build the  
network and audio driver for.

Build alsa following their instructions and everything should work.   
Don't forget the mixer setting step.  (you may want to check that now  
while using the nvidia driver.)

Building a kernel from scratch isn't that bad.  I can send you my  
.config file if you want to build the plain kernel.  Since you're using  
the same motherboard it should be very straight forward.  Do you have  
any other cards in the system?

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/ 
template.php?company=Nvidia&card=nForce&chip=NM2360&module=intel8x0

Here's my modules.conf.   I have the USB and firewire disable just  
because I'm not using them yet.  I originally had crashing problems  
that were solved by upgrading the bios and disabling ACPI.

#alias usb-controller usb-ohci
#alias usb-controller1 ehci-hcd
#alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394

#nVidia supplied driver
#alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio


# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
# module options should go here

# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0

# card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

alias eth0 nvnet

#post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L  
 >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
#pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S  
 >/dev/null 2>&1 || :


alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c

alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv

options ivtv debug=1 mpg_buffers=99
options tuner type=2
options msp3400 once=1 simple=1
add below ivtv msp3400 saa7115 tuner

alias char-major-195 nvidia


Let me know if you need any more help with this.  You can contact me  
direct if you want since this is off topic for the myth board.
Vinton