ok, here's my dillemma. I have a nvidia nforce 420 mobo, and athlon xp 1600 processor, i use the onboard vid, sound, and netcard, i have 2 different harddrives. one is a western digital and the others a samsung. When I install redhat 7.3 to either harddrive, even when i partition it separate from windows, or just use the whole harddrive towards it, it locks up right at the end of the installation.
now for mandrake 8.2. I installed that to both my harddrives, same scenarios as above, partitioned and full harddrive. I got thru the install process, but when it boots up, it always locks up when it says something about the audio (don't remember the message exactly)

any questions, please respond, thanks

The exact message about the audio is rather important. Nvidia does a good job of supporting Linux. I think the document you're looking for is this:

http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_4...e-1.0-0241.txt

The bit near the bottom may be the issue.

which is branched off of this page:

http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_nforce_1.0-0241

There is indeed something wonky about their i810 driver I suppose.

Luck,

Finegan

it was something like loading the i810 audio.......
i also am pretty sure i have that plug and play OS enabled in my BIOS, i'll try that, and post about it,

thanks for the response, i'm still new to linux but i want to learn about it

Well, i checked out in my BIOS like it said too, and the plug and play OS option was off. So that was not the problem. I still am not sure what the problem is, but thanks for responding with the Nvidia web site.

I think, since it hung trying to load the in-kernel i810 driver, you probably should disable the audio from the BIOS, hopefully then the crate will boot normally, download and install/compile the happy drivers from nvidia, reboot, re-enable the onboard sound, and then cross your fingers.

Cheers,

Finegan