Nforce Chipset --revisited

spaceballs · 03-30-2005, 07:59 PM

I am helpng a friend with a machine, and this box has an Nforce 2 chipset. It seems to work fine with the default Slackware kernel, but I know that nVidia offers a proprietary driver of its own. Now we are still using the stock 2.4.29 bare.i kernel. I want to know how nvidia's driver compares to the modules in the 2.6.x series, and why I would want to use nvidia's chipset driver to begin with. What will their driver give me that I might not already have?

spaceballs · 03-31-2005, 10:05 AM

Maybe this question should be in the hardware section, but what advantage does the nforce chipset have over a more generic chipset?

keefaz · 03-31-2005, 11:41 AM

I have a NForce2 chipset on my motherboard, I use the drivers from www.kernel.org
I use snd_intel8x0 module from alsa instead of the nvidia nvsound module.

I think you make a confusion between the drivers provided by nvidia site (nforce driver)
because it is just 2 modules : nvnet and nvsound for onboard net card and onboard net sound

The drivers for NForce 2 chipset are in the kernel tree

spaceballs · 03-31-2005, 11:57 AM

That is only under the 2.6 series, correct?

keefaz · 03-31-2005, 11:59 AM

The NForce2 ? Maybe, I have not the 2.4 sources for checking