I have a ABIT NF7 revision 1.2 motherboard. I have tried to get things to work smooth with the 2.5 kernel series, but with no luck. So, I decided to again try the stable kernels..
I tried to boot the kernel installed during installation of Slackware, but one annoying thing is that I always have to do hdparm -d 1 on all my disks right after booting, if I dont, the HDD speed is about 3MB/s.. I tried to compile the nvidia geforce drivers, but I get this error while compiling them:

In file included from /lib/modules/2.4.20/build/include/linux/vmalloc.h:8,
from nv-linux.h:72,
from os-registry.c:14:
/lib/modules/2.4.20/build/include/linux/highmem.h: In function `bh_kmap':
/lib/modules/2.4.20/build/include/linux/highmem.h:20: warning: pointer of type `
void *' used in arithmetic
ld -r -o nv-linux.o nv.o os-agp.o os-interface.o os-registry.o
ld -r -o nvidia.o nv-linux.o nv-kernel.o
/bin/sh: line 1: /sbin/lsmod: No such file or directory
/bin/sh: line 1: /sbin/lsmod: No such file or directory
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/video/nvidi
a.o
/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o: unresolved symbol _mmx_memcpy
/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o:
Hint: You are trying to load a module without a GPL compatible license
and it has unresolved symbols. Contact the module supplier for
assistance, only they can help you.

/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.20/ke
rnel/drivers/video/nvidia.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o: insmod nvidia failed
make: *** [package-install] Error 255



I need GLX to run programs based on Qt, to an example bbconf.

I am going to compile a new 2.4.20-kernel,
but as far as I remember the 2.4.20-kernel is not so nforce2-friendly. any tips about getting things working?

My intergrated soundcard is f**ked up (during production I think), so I run a EMU10K1-compatible card.
Currently I run a 8139-based NIC, but it would be nice to get the intergrated NIC to work...

I have the same shitty problem with, haha, even 3.5 MB/s.
Using Asus A7N8X deluxe and dunno what 2 do to gain the 40 MB/s I had previously...

Cheers

hi, i have a linux friend, who explained me, that almost every distribution installs disks by default only to pio modes, so u must manually set 32 bit mode, udma and specify udma5 /or 4/ for ATA133 discs. for my machine, i have added this /to run it on every linux start/ to file /etc/rc.local :
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/sbin/hdparm -d1 -m16 -c3 /dev/hda ..... this sets 32 bit mode etc.
/sbin/hdparm -X udma5 /dev/hda .... this sets UDMA MODE 5
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u can test your hdd: /sbin/hdparm -Tt /dev/hda
before change the second test took 15s, after change 1s !!!!!!!!!

so definitly, huge speed boost. and UT2003 loads in a second !

yer, yer, thx already got it with hdparm -c1d1X69 /dev/hdX

I have solved my problem
Now I am running kernel 2.4.21 and using the AMD Viper driver with the "enforce ATA66" thing.
Now I get ca. 60MB/s on my WD 120gig. disk