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ABIT NF7-M ( NVIDIA nForce2 video) with Linux?
I'm in process of building a system with an ABIT NF7-M motherboard
(using NVIDIA nForce2 video) that I would like to run with Linux instead of Windows. Has anyone installed Red Hat 9, Fedora 2 or Debian linux on that motherboard or chipset? How to configure the video? I've used Linux before but I am not fasmilar with details configuring the low-level "X" widnows. Thanks :-) |
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On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 21:16:19 +0000, Phil S wrote:
I'm in process of building a system with an ABIT NF7-M motherboard (using NVIDIA nForce2 video) that I would like to run with Linux instead of Windows. Has anyone installed Red Hat 9, Fedora 2 or Debian linux on that motherboard or chipset? How to configure the video? I've used Linux before but I am not fasmilar with details configuring the low-level "X" widnows. Thanks :-) I believe any Linux will install on your NF7 board. I have Mandrake and VectorLinux working on it. You will need to run the NVidia driver install. NVidia have a special license and their video drivers will not install aoutomatically on any Linux distribution I know of. I suggest you visit their website and read their instructions. They (and their setup) are fairly straightforward if you RTFM. Larry Gagnon -- ******************************** to reply via email remove "fake" |
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On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 14:47:56 -0700, Larry Gagnon
wrote: On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 21:16:19 +0000, Phil S wrote: I'm in process of building a system with an ABIT NF7-M motherboard (using NVIDIA nForce2 video) that I would like to run with Linux instead of Windows. Has anyone installed Red Hat 9, Fedora 2 or Debian linux on that motherboard or chipset? How to configure the video? I've used Linux before but I am not fasmilar with details configuring the low-level "X" widnows. Thanks :-) I believe any Linux will install on your NF7 board. I have Mandrake and VectorLinux working on it. You will need to run the NVidia driver install. NVidia have a special license and their video drivers will not install aoutomatically on any Linux distribution I know of. I suggest you visit their website and read their instructions. They (and their setup) are fairly straightforward if you RTFM. Larry Gagnon Thanks Larry. Sorry for the newbie question, but: How do I get the video to work so I can download and install the drivers? Phil |
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On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 21:16:19 +0000, Phil S wrote:
I'm in process of building a system with an ABIT NF7-M motherboard (using NVIDIA nForce2 video) that I would like to run with Linux instead of Windows. Has anyone installed Red Hat 9, Fedora 2 or Debian linux on that motherboard or chipset? How to configure the video? I've used Linux before but I am not fasmilar with details configuring the low-level "X" widnows. Thanks :-) I have(had) installed Knoppix/Debian on this board and it autodetected and setup the video on install. Worked very well. I would send you my system and Xconfig files except that the board died after about 2 weeks. KRF |
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Phil S wrote:
I'm in process of building a system with an ABIT NF7-M motherboard (using NVIDIA nForce2 video) that I would like to run with Linux instead of Windows. Has anyone installed Red Hat 9, Fedora 2 or Debian linux on that motherboard or chipset? How to configure the video? I've used Linux before but I am not fasmilar with details configuring the low-level "X" widnows. Thanks :-) Red Hat or Fedora will install a driver called nv (apparently an open-source driver) and X will be up and running. Then you can go to the Nvidia site and get their driver called nvidia, which is better than nv if you are running 3D graphics. There are several ways to install nvidia. Use the method wherein you install kernel source (using rpm---find the book called "Maximum RPM" on the web) that matches your kernel. The nvidia driver itself uses its own installer (not rpm) and compiles a kernel interface. You have to edit /etc/inittab (see `man init` and `man inittab`) and XF86Config or so. Each time you upgrade your kernel, you have to install the matching kernel-source rpm, deinstall nvidia and reinstall nvidia. Apparently the upgrade process is more automated when using SuSE, but once you understand it, it is at most a ten-minute chore (assuming broadband) regardless of distro. By the way, I believe you will be fine running FC2 rather than RH9. RH9 support will be ending soon if it hasn't already. |
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Thanks for everything, Matt. I went with the NF7-M and Fedora FC2 with
no real problems. Everything went together in a couple of hours. I originally loaded RH9 but it did not recognize the on board lan, so I tried Fedora FC2. It has a pretty good driver for the on board lan and the "nv" driver you mentioned for the on board video. The "nv" driver would hang after a little bit of use, but was usefull enough to download the driver from nvidia ... it installed with no problem and the nvidia recommmendations for two simple edits to the xorg.conf worked immediatey with no problems. Everything works well. I have not used (or needed) the nvidia diagnostics or utilites that came with the board because they are Windows .exe's and I haven't bothered to install windows. Thanks again for great advice. Phil On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 13:42:23 GMT, Matt wrote: Phil S wrote: I'm in process of building a system with an ABIT NF7-M motherboard (using NVIDIA nForce2 video) that I would like to run with Linux instead of Windows. Has anyone installed Red Hat 9, Fedora 2 or Debian linux on that motherboard or chipset? How to configure the video? I've used Linux before but I am not fasmilar with details configuring the low-level "X" widnows. Thanks :-) Red Hat or Fedora will install a driver called nv (apparently an open-source driver) and X will be up and running. Then you can go to the Nvidia site and get their driver called nvidia, which is better than nv if you are running 3D graphics. There are several ways to install nvidia. Use the method wherein you install kernel source (using rpm---find the book called "Maximum RPM" on the web) that matches your kernel. The nvidia driver itself uses its own installer (not rpm) and compiles a kernel interface. You have to edit /etc/inittab (see `man init` and `man inittab`) and XF86Config or so. Each time you upgrade your kernel, you have to install the matching kernel-source rpm, deinstall nvidia and reinstall nvidia. Apparently the upgrade process is more automated when using SuSE, but once you understand it, it is at most a ten-minute chore (assuming broadband) regardless of distro. By the way, I believe you will be fine running FC2 rather than RH9. RH9 support will be ending soon if it hasn't already. |
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Phil S wrote:
Thanks for everything, Matt. I went with the NF7-M and Fedora FC2 with no real problems. Everything went together in a couple of hours. I originally loaded RH9 but it did not recognize the on board lan, so I tried Fedora FC2. It has a pretty good driver for the on board lan and the "nv" driver you mentioned for the on board video. The "nv" driver would hang after a little bit of use, but was usefull enough to download the driver from nvidia ... it installed with no problem and the nvidia recommmendations for two simple edits to the xorg.conf worked immediatey with no problems. Everything works well. I have not used (or needed) the nvidia diagnostics or utilites that came with the board because they are Windows .exe's and I haven't bothered to install windows. Thanks again for great advice. Phil Glad to help ... Now if in the next year you give similar help to two people, and so on, then five years from now we can look back on the present OS situation as just a bad memory ... :-) |
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