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You're missing the point. Again. nVidia are the only people who really know how AGP and the APU in nForce2 work and the only people who can write proper Linux drivers for it. It has nothing to do with the "Linux crowd," they don't know how nF2 works if they did, we would have seen drivers ages ago. nVidia already write drivers for Linux and FreeBSD so they have at least a working knowledge of the platform yet the nF2 drivers (particularly the APU which is the only feature I'm really concerned about. I know as well as you the Linux games market is still too immature to really make the lack of 3D acceleration a big deal) are still a joke. I don't hate nVidia (I bought their motherboard chipset didn't I?), but I expect Linux support to go the whole nine yards, support for all their products equally or none of them at all.

[OFFTOPIC] Quote: Epox 8RDA+, Sound Blaster Ensoniq ES1371 Sound Card Dude, lose that thing already, the onboard audio (nVidia SoundStorm) on the 8RDA+ is far better. we'll now return to our regular programming [/OFFTOPIC] Seems like a nice place... I'd register but I'm already registered on more forums than I can regularly post at and I really don't need another one. He could try reducing the number of forums in the "TheShed" category though, it kinda looks a little crowded...

The upside is that with no reg files theres one less thing to get in a tangle requiring a complete reformat to straighten out again...

A quick and easy way to prevent Users and Power Users from deleting desktop and Start menu icons (other than what they put there themselves. If you want to prevent that too then the way mentioned earlier is probably better) is to move everything into the Start Menu and Desktop folders in the All Users folder in Documents and Setting and then setting the permissions for Users and Power Users to "Read & Execute" (after first removing any inheritance from the higher directory) and then forcing them down the directory tree. I've been using that trick for years on both 2k and XP for just that purpose.

Quote: Technically, VESA ran at 40MHz and PCI at 33MHz. So, at the time, VLB was superior. But again, VHS vs BETA. VESA ran at whatever speed the 486 host bus was running at, anywhere from 16Mhz right up to 50Mhz, due to the fact that it was essentially the 486 host bus wired into a slot connector. This made it cheap and easy to implement on 486 systems but difficult on any other. It wasn't really stable above 33-40Mhz either (as I found out when I installed a VLB disk controller on a 486DX-50 system) due to timing problems in the host bus which made PCI's detachment from the host bus a much better idea in the long run.

Quote: A lot of that goes to the development of the kernel, however, and not the fault of nVidia. Considering that the company is willing to put as much effort as they have into a free OS while trying to retain their intellectual property (3D acceleration is big money people, and they don't want to just "hand out" their stuff just yet) is a testament to their customer support program. In addition, I was able to get an nForce board working rather well under Gentoo, although it is a rather convoluted process. GRUB had seizures with it until I grabbed an unstable version of it, and I was also able to get the onboard LAN working and hdparm returned rather nice results at the time, so I would assume that UDMA was working. The AGPGART and APU issues are their fault. They put AGPGART code in their own Linux graphics drivers so they're fully capable of protecting their IP in that environment (nVidia's drivers aren't open source) so how hard can it possibly be to include support for non-nVidia chipsets as well? As for the APU, the current driver is merely a bridge between Linux's AC'97 audio support and the APU, the APU isn't used at all. This isn't support, it's lip service.

Quote: and is just now starting to fix that as well as help out Linux users. nVidia could use a few lessons in helping Linux users themselves as well... Their current Linux nForce2 drivers are a joke, no APU support, no UDMA support and no non-nVidia AGPGART support. UDMA support is promised in the next kernel (2.4.21) and nVidia are supposedly working on AGPGART but who knows when they'll get around to giving us a proper APU driver.

It's a stupid question I know, but have you tried building Qt using the instructions listed in the KDE 3.1.x installation guide?

Radeon 9500 Pro is a bit more expensive (about USD$150 last time I checked) but will leave a Ti4200 choking on its digital dust and its DX9 support will give it a much longer lifespan than a Ti4200. You'll have to be quick though, ATi plan to replace 9500 and 9500 Pro with the R350-based, but still inferior, 9600 and 9600 Pro.

I bought a Sapphire Radeon 9500 Pro a couple of days ago. All up, it cost AUD$401.50 (including AUD$15 shipping) which I'm none too happy about (I didn't want to spend more than AUD$300 on a video card but there was nothing in that price range with the longevity I was after) but such is life. When it arrives, it'll join the EPoX 8RDA+, ATA133 controller, Athlon XP 2400+, Volcano 9 cooler and all the other stuff I bought last year for this project (case, CD burner, DVD-ROM, MPEG decoder etc). Next, I plan to get a 120Gb Western Digital Caviar Special Edition along with some 80cm rounded cables (another thing I'm not happy about, 30 bucks for a cable is daylight robbery) so I can fit it and my other ATA devices at the top of my tower (my IDE ports are at the bottom of the case instead of the more logical position in from of the DIMM slots). Finally, I plan to get me a pair of the 256Mb Corsair Twinx DIMM modules and get a dual-channel RAM setup going but that probably won't be until the end of June

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Dunno about IE6, but IE 5.5 can be made to run with Wine, theres a link to the instructions in the Compatibility database: http://www.linuxcompatible.org/compdet.php?id=10558 But why are they so insistent you run IE and not a browser with a native Linux version like Opera or even Mozilla?

Theres no upload function in phpBB so the best you can do is upload the image somewhere else and use IMG tags to display it here.

Some googling revealed this: http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/ It's a Linux driver for the Alcatel modem but you'll still probably need to set up PPPoE to connect to your ISP. AFAIK, as this is handled by the regular Linux PPP daemon a front-end program like kppp ought to be able to do the job but I offer no guarantees.

You can probably achieve what you want by installing Apache on your gateway box. You may already have Apache installed (it ships with pretty much every distribution) so you'll have to remove it before installing the latest version.

Just approach it like I told you last time: http://www.linuxcompatible.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=441 Red Hat can format partitions in it's installer just like Mandrake can and if you have your /home mounted on a seperate partition, you can just format your / and swap partitions around it and have all your settings from Mandrake automatically appear in RH.

The above post was made under the assumption that RH9 actually shipped with the correct driver but it wasn't being set up correctly which doesn't appear to be the case (despite RH9 knowing that the nForce nVidia MAC requires the nvnet driver): http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13739 An RPM containing the kernel driver is available and even though it's meant for an nForce1 board, it should work for an nForce2 board as well: http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12097 http://www.pheran.com/nv7linux/ It's compiled using the older (.0248) drivers so you may still have to compile it by hand if you want to use the latest (.0256) drivers. Also, as I'm not too familiar with the RPM, I'm not sure if it sets up the proper device aliases or not so you may have to do that manually as per the instructions in my post.

Pretty much everything thats reasonably popular will have some kind of Linux support, whether it be officially through the original manufacturer or unofficially through the open source community hell, even some less common hardware is supported -- theres a whole section in the kernel devoted to Packet Radio (think the internet over standard UHF Amateur Radio) stuff. Unless you have some really old, really unusual pieces of hardware you shouldn't have any trouble getting any of it working under Linux.

There's a new set of Linux nForce2 drivers on the nVidia website: http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_nforce_1.0-0256 They were released on Monday and since they now have a release date that's later than his board, t0nystump can actually try installing them now instead of whining about how nVidia doesn't support it's customers...

Surely you mean http://www.alsa-project.org/ don't you? Not only is it the default sound architecture for Mandrake, it's also completely free. Getting back on track, what you have there is an AC'97 audio device. These are supported by ALSA as part of it's intel-8x0 driver. Instructions on how to set it up can be found here: http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc...module=intel8x0

What sound card do you have?

I don't think so, it appears to be just internationalisation stuff so unless you speak a language other than english and prefer your OS to be in that language I'd imagine you can do without it.

Quote: and what about via? their good chipsets... Via couldn't really make a good chipset if their companies future depended on it, the only reason they're such a big name in Athlon chipsets is because AMD don't really care. If you go AMD, get an nForce board. If you can do without the extra LAN port or SATA (and theres a good chance you can) then you can save a few bucks by not buying the A7N8X Deluxe but whatever you do, don't buy the regular (non-Deluxe) A7N8X as this uses the lower spec MCP South Bridge and not the MCP-T like the Deluxe. Boards like the EPoX 8RDA+ implement the MCP-T and all its useful functionality (FireWire, nVidia LAN and SoundStorm audio) while keeping the price substantially lower than the A7N8X Deluxe. Avoid the Chaintech 7NJS as well because, while it uses the MCP-T, Chaintech forego implementing the nVidia APU audio in favour of an external sound chip.

If your /home directory is mounted on a seperate partition then all you should have to do is boot off the first 9.1 CD and reinstall over your old / and swap partitions (remember to earmark them for formatting though). If it isn't, back up everything important in /home and then do the same thing, boot off the first CD and reinstall.

For starters, the RealTek chip is only a physical layer transceiver, the nVidia MAC in the MCP is doing all the actual work so ReaLTek drivers are unlikely to work with it, you need the nvnet driver. Secondly, is nvnet being properly aliased in /etc/modules.conf? There should be a line in there that looks something like this: Code: alias eth0 nvnet If it isn't there, add it. Next, type Code: modprobe nvnet at the command prompt along with Code: tail /var/log/messages to see any error messages that are produced in activating the driver. If all goes well you should see a message informing you the driver started successfully in the messages file at which point you should be good to go. Open up the network configuration applet and give eth0 an IP address, subnet mask and if needed, default gateway and DNS entries. If you get an error message post it here and let's see if we can't do something about it. Remember kids, GUIs are not always the best way to get things done.