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This is the SATA and Firewire variant of the NF7 motherboard. It works great with Linux (with some tweaking) and I have tried it using Debian (Sarge), Fedora Core 1 and 2, and several other smaller distros. AGP/video card hardware acceleration works only with the kernel 2.6.x nvidia_agp module. Audio works with the i810_audio driver (I haven't tried using all five channels of the integrated audio). Integrated ethernet works with the forcedeth module, but it also worked with the module mii under the 2.4.x kernel. USB works fine with EHCI and OHCI. I haven't tried using Firewire, yet, but /sbin/lsmod shows that the ieee1394 and other "1394" drivers have loaded.
I haven't had a chance to use a SATA drive yet, but the Silicon Image SATA driver does load up during boot and detect my SATA interfaces. Note that with some kernels if you don't have any SATA drives it takes a really long time to pass the SATA checks if you do not disable SATA in the BIOS setup. You can disable the checks by passing "hde=none hdf=none hdg=none hdh=none" to your kernel during boot (i.e., as a kernel option in LILO or GRUB). Note that this will certainly disable any SATA capabilities of the motherboard.
Another misgiving is that X Windows (both Xfree86 4.3/4.4 and X.Org) fails to load properly when autodetecting the AGP card under many distributions. For my computer, it identifies the primary AGP output bus as 00:02:00, while /sbin/lspci shows that it is 02:00:00. Thus, one must manually edit the X configuration file and change it to the lspci value. Note that this might be due to my video card (Sapphire Radeon 9000 SE).
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Abit NF7 NF7-S nForce2
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07-20-2004, 01:32 PM
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Registered: May 2004
Distribution: mdklinux8.1
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 7
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found via source monarch computer system use it withbeing compatible with linux
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10-07-2004, 08:43 AM
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Registered: Dec 1969
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $105.00 | Rating: 9
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Works perfectly. The chipset is very performant. Then mainboard absolutely stable (in opposit to MSI KT880 Delta->Don't buy!!).
Everything works fine, also Alsa 5.1 analog and digital output.
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05-03-2005, 09:15 PM
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Registered: Jan 2005
Distribution: ArchLinux
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $90.00 | Rating: 7
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This board seems to work great with most distros. However, I have had problems with Knoppix and PCLinuxOS LiveCD's. Knoppix will boot up every 4-5 times I try and run just fine after that, and PCLinuxOS will never load up. However, every other distro has worked 100% (Ubuntu, Arch, and Gentoo).
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