NForce 2 support

NForce 2 support

[Dr NoName]

Hello kernel hackers,

I have a quick question: what is the current state of
support for NVidia NForce 2 chipset? I am planning to
get a new Athlon XP rig and just wondering if NForce
(specifically Abit NF7-S) is a good choice. I can
compile a custom kernel and don't mind installing
nvidia drivers separately but I do want everything to
work and be rock-solid (ide, agp, sound, network,
etc.). So will NForce work or should I stick with VIA?

thanks in advance,

Eugene


		
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Re: NForce 2 support

[chakkerz_dev]

Heya

Not a kernel hacker but and nforce2 user

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

> Dr NoName <spamacct11@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello kernel hackers,
> 
> I have a quick question: what is the current state of
> support for NVidia NForce 2 chipset? I am planning to
> get a new Athlon XP rig and just wondering if NForce
> (specifically Abit NF7-S) is a good choice. I can
> compile a custom kernel and don't mind installing
> nvidia drivers separately but I do want everything to
> work and be rock-solid (ide, agp, sound, network,
> etc.). So will NForce work or should I stick with VIA?
> 
> thanks in advance,
> 
> Eugene
> 
> 
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Re: NForce 2 support

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 24 August 2004 21:02, chakkerz_dev@optusnet.com.au wrote:
>Heya
>
>Not a kernel hacker but and nforce2 user
>
>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
>
My biostar M7NCD Pro intel8x0 sound works right well here on an 
otherwise nforce2 board.

>> Dr NoName <spamacct11@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello kernel hackers,
>>
>> I have a quick question: what is the current state of
>> support for NVidia NForce 2 chipset? I am planning to
>> get a new Athlon XP rig and just wondering if NForce
>> (specifically Abit NF7-S) is a good choice. I can
>> compile a custom kernel and don't mind installing
>> nvidia drivers separately but I do want everything to
>> work and be rock-solid (ide, agp, sound, network,
>> etc.). So will NForce work or should I stick with VIA?
>>
>> thanks in advance,
>>
>> Eugene
>>
>>
>>
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Re: NForce 2 support

[Dr NoName]

> 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?

thanks,

Eugene



		
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Re: NForce 2 support

[Lee Revell]

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

Re: NForce 2 support

[Rodrigo F Baroni]

Dr NoName disse:
>> 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

  I got do my one work, but I spend some enoght time until get it work.
Following the "try/error" method, I got do it work by :

   1)Disabling the support to pnp
   2)Disabling the support to new irq automatic detect item
   3)Enabling only ALSA build-in (no open sound, as the docs say to do)
   4)Enabling evey option about ALSA, but about the specific chipset only the
one - NVidia2

  The machine was one with a asus A7N8X-X (nvidia2 chipset).

 Rodrigo F Baroni

Re: NForce 2 support

[Prakash K. Cheemplavam]

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chakkerz_dev@optusnet.com.au wrote:
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| Heya
|
| Not a kernel hacker but and nforce2 user
|
| 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

I have no problem with the onboard ac'97 codec. Hopefully NVidea gets
their soundstorm driver into usable state.  My Nforce2 runs nicely. Only
in PIC mode cat /proc/interrups gives a lot of error irq. In APIC
everything is fine.

Prakash
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