Linux nforce Drivers

[fweeee]

Hi

I'm very new to linux, and would like to find out a bit about hardware support before buying the compoents for my linux box.

I'm looking at the gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 motherboard. But from searching the gigabyte website, they dont seem to have linux drivers for the onboard sound and networking, which I am planning on using.

This motherboard is based on the nForce4 4X chipset, however, and the nvidia site does have linux nforce drivers.

Now, my question is, does this mean that these nforce drivers will enable everything to work properly (sound, network, video, etc)? Or is it possible that even with these linux nforce drivers, my life is going to be filled with pain getting the onboard components to work?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[imdeemvp]

This is what you need just make sure you follow the instruction for installation and reboot when done.

[fweeee]

Thanks imdeemvp,

I had been to that site (the nforce linux driver site), but wasnt 100% sure if it would all work with these drivers, or if Gigabyte could have done something so this motherboard wouldnt work perfectly with the standard nforce drivers.

Again, thanks for your help.

[Shakes]

Hi. I have that exact motherboard installed and unfortunately have never had X windows working properly. It's possible that it is because I have an ATI gfx card tho. I am also using the 64bit version of FC3 when maybe the 32bit would have worked. I'm not wasting another 4 dics and time to try though.

I suspect that there are problems with this board and linux based on what I have read trying to get X working. Also when I do "lspci" (since PCI-E card) the ATI card comes up unknown device which could be half my problem cos it can't find the device ever. My advice would be to consider another board known to work or sit on Windows till FC4 arrives (early June). I found a post somewhere where someone had tried FC4 test 1 with an NForce 4 board and it apparently was better supported, though they still couldn't get X working with hardware support. Again they had an ATI card though.

The logs for the 2.6.11 kernel do mention some nforce fixes so maybe with that kerne, things will work better. Personally I'm waiting till june.

Cheers.

[fweeee]

Thanks Shakes,

Unfortunatly I have already gone and bought this board. But I'll be using it with an nvidia video card. Lets see if I have anymore luck.

I have both 64bit and 32bit versions on DVD. Lets see if either of them work.

[ManInScaryMask]

Got an nVidia 6600 here, and it boots fine, and displays fine, but when the official hardware-accelerated drivers are installed........................

It no worky.

I get great display until I try to run an OpenGL application, and then the screen wipes to some diagonally tiled noise, and then there's NO response from the computer, no mouse movement, etc. Can't even ping it. Only thing left to do is to reboot and not open those apps.

Since I got this specifically for 3D, and require hardware-accelerated drivers to do ANYTHING, this is absolutely horrid, and I intentionally exclude several dozen words not meant for polite conversation.

What I'm getting to is: throw out that motherboard, and get something else. MSI, or ANYTHING other than the GA-K8NF-9....

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Jamie

[ride153]

im running fedora3 on a nforce2 ultra motherboard everthing seems to work good and i never installed nforce drivers from nvidia. should i intstall nforce drivers will it increase performance?

[ManInScaryMask]

Well, those drivers, AFAIK, only do anything for the on-board audio, and the IDE controller (I think...). That wouldn't have much of anything to do with performance, if it's working already. I was wondering whether installing those drivers would remove the problem with the video card, but I haven't checked just yet.

Maybe in 5 minutes... ^_^;;;;

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Jamie