From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268576AbUHYCW3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 22:22:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268531AbUHYCW1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 22:22:27 -0400 Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.4]:25790 "HELO viper.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S266376AbUHYCWW (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 22:22:22 -0400 Subject: Re: NForce 2 support From: Lee Revell To: Dr NoName Cc: chakkerz_dev@optusnet.com.au, linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <20040825020538.55821.qmail@web12306.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040825020538.55821.qmail@web12306.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1093400541.5678.9.camel@krustophenia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 22:22:22 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 22:05, Dr NoName wrote: > > nforce 2 works sweet with the exception of sound > > which has been broken in 2.6.7 and > > 2.6.8.1 causing system crashes. If you have a > > soundcard not to worry, if you are > > gonna run onboard ... wait and see with 2.6.9 brings > > > is that with the open source drivers or nvidia > proprietary ones? How do the two sets of drivers > compare? > The open source sound drivers do not work as well as the binary ones. SPDIF/AC3 does not work in the current ALSA driver and nvidia will not release the required documentation to get it working. Worse, the binary-only driver is an OSS and not an ALSA driver! Unbelievable. The network driver had to be reverse engineered. Apparently nvidia engineers helped to get the gigabit support and some other features working, but only after people had to reverse engineer the basic functions. Stick with VIA. Nvidia is not Linux friendly. Lee