I am about to by a new computer after my move to another city to study. Now i wonder if it is possible to buy one with an nforce-chipset? I recall some one saying that to get it working you have to install stuff from nvidia. If i can not get it to work with RHL out of the box i dont realy know if i want this. Can some one enlighten me about this? maybe there is some homepage with the status of this working?
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Kent Nyberg wrote:
I am about to by a new computer after my move to another city to study. Now i wonder if it is possible to buy one with an nforce-chipset? I recall some one saying that to get it working you have to install stuff from nvidia. If i can not get it to work with RHL out of the box i dont realy know if i want this. Can some one enlighten me about this? maybe there is some homepage with the status of this working?
Have a nice day!
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I am about to by a new computer after my move to another city to study. Now i wonder if it is possible to buy one with an nforce-chipset? I recall some one saying that to get it working you have to install stuff from nvidia. If i can not get it to work with RHL out of the box i dont realy know if i want this.
Nforce ethernet is not supported. Nforce AGP is not supported (although that is about to change). Nforce audio only supports the basic stuff not the extra multimedia goodies they seem to have.
On Ma, 2003-08-12 at 13:12, Kent Nyberg wrote:
I am about to by a new computer after my move to another city to study. Now i wonder if it is possible to buy one with an nforce-chipset?
I strongly advise you against it.
I've also got a new computer recently and was considering an nforce chipset. But all drivers are proprietary, you cannot even install linux by network on it. I won't pay nvidia to make my life harder.
I do recommend what I've got - an intel i845 chipset. It has 3D support ( from tux racer to enemy teritorry, it works great out of the box ). I've got a gigabyte mb with network, audio and video on it, working almost great https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=101787
I also don't have to manually install and wait for nvidia drivers now.
On August 12, 2003 06:12 am, Kent Nyberg nyberg.kent@spray.se wrote:
Now i wonder if it is possible to buy one with an nforce-chipset? I recall some one saying that to get it working you have to install stuff from nvidia. If i can not get it to work with RHL out of the box i dont realy know if i want this. Can some one enlighten me about this?
IO haven't paid much attention, but I would suggest looking through the list archives for discussions on this: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhl-beta-list
cheers,
Elton ;-)
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 03:12, Kent Nyberg wrote:
I am about to by a new computer after my move to another city to study. Now i wonder if it is possible to buy one with an nforce-chipset? I recall some one saying that to get it working you have to install stuff from nvidia. If i can not get it to work with RHL out of the box i dont realy know if i want this.
Out of the box, no. OTOH, it works pretty well if you install a few drivers.
NForce works well enough for me, i'm happy with it, but if you want something that can be configured quickly, i'd advise against.
--- Florin Andrei florin@sgi.com wrote: > On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 03:12, Kent Nyberg wrote:
I am about to by a new computer after my move to another city to
study.
Now i wonder if it is possible to buy one with an nforce-chipset? I recall some one saying that to get it working you have to
install
stuff from nvidia. If i can not get it to work with RHL out of
the box
i dont realy know if i want this.
Out of the box, no. OTOH, it works pretty well if you install a few drivers.
It should work with the vesa driver - not perfect performance but will work
(helped out someone with a problem over at linux-questions-only at linux gazette)
NForce works well enough for me, i'm happy with it, but if you want something that can be configured quickly, i'd advise against.
-- Florin Andrei
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On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 12:59, Alan Cox wrote:
Nforce ethernet is not supported. Nforce AGP is not supported (although that is about to change). Nforce audio only supports the basic stuff not the extra multimedia goodies they seem to have.
Hi Alan,
Can you please elaborate a bit more on the "Nforce AGP is not supported (although that is about to change)" part. I thought the Nforce AGP patch had already been backported from 2.6 and made it into the Severn kernel. I have a Nforce2 based mobo with an ATI Radeon 9000 and would love to see glxgears do better than 200 fps and be able to play race tux.
Regards, Patrick
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 01:35:09PM +0200, Patrick wrote:
Can you please elaborate a bit more on the "Nforce AGP is not supported (although that is about to change)" part. I thought the Nforce AGP patch had already been backported from 2.6 and made it into the Severn kernel.
It's in 2.4 mainline, but not yet in the Severn kernel.
I have a Nforce2 based mobo with an ATI Radeon 9000 and would love to see glxgears do better than 200 fps and be able to play race tux.
I'm sure we'll see an agp update for Severn at some point soon.
Dave
Can you please elaborate a bit more on the "Nforce AGP is not supported (although that is about to change)" part. I thought the Nforce AGP patch had already been backported from 2.6 and made it into the Severn kernel.
It may have been. I'm focussed on the mainstream kernel so could have missed the merge.
I have a Nforce2 based mobo with an ATI Radeon 9000 and would love to see glxgears do better than 200 fps and be able to play race tux.
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