Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $150.00 | Rating: 8
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.4.21-0.13mdk.custom
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Distribution:
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Mandrake 9.1
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Although the www.nvidia.com drivers and research fixed most of the problems, they were pretty much standard for NForce2 mobo's:
- The AGP slot was unhappy with anything besides an nvidia card. Nvidia drivers + nvidia gfx card.
- Onboard sound is crippled on Linux, only allows 48kHz output, which is actually fine for most audio as long as artsd or something keeps output limited to that. Nvidia drivers.
- Nvidia's vaunted 'SoundStorm' technology doesn't work on Linux yet. Probably never will.
- Onboard 10/100 nic worked fine with nvidia drivers.
- Other nic worked fine with standard e1000 drivers.
- The standard drivers for the Silicon Image SATA controller don't like DMA or PIO. To fix this, I ended up adding the lines:
hdparm -X66 -d1 /dev/hde >/dev/null
echo "max_kb_per_request:15" > /proc/ide/hde/settings
to rc.sysinit, before fscking or anything. Works alright.
- The drivers for the SATA will also wait for what seems like an eternity during kernel boot if you only have 1 drive connected. To fix, add "hdg=none" to the LILO boot line.
In general, this motherboard does (mostly) work with Linux. If you want a board that works out of the box, however, avoid this one.
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