A7N8X and linux...getting lost....

[Emc2]

Ok, I'm trying to follow the instructions from nvidia's website for the nforce2 drivers. I get lost at the GART Patch Installation part. I only have kernel version 2.4.19, not 2.4.20, and I can't seem to figure out how to upgrade my kernel . I also can't figure out how to "load the appropriate modules and rebuild the kernel". Mandrake's website keeps asking me to join MandrakeClub, and it's just pissing me off at this point...

[nukes]

Right, Here's the long and short of it:
Go to www.kernel.org and get whatever version you want.
Untar it in /usr/src/ by going to that dir and doing

tar xjf /path/to/kernel/linux-2.4.20.tar.bz2
cd linux-2.4.20

apply any patches you want.

make mrproper
make menuconfig
make dep
make clean
make modules bzImage
make modules_install

At the menuconfig part you will be asked aboiut the system and have loads of options, just take it one at a time and read the help sections. Here's a tutorial on recompiling the kernel.
http://www.linuxjunior.org/cgi-bin/p...T=Display&id=9

Alternativley, the 2.5/2.6 tree has NForce2 support.

[Emc2]

yes, but 2.5 doesn't look like it's available, and 2.6 is still in testing ...

[SpookyEddy]

yes, but 2.5 doesn't look like it's available, and 2.6 is still in testing ...

2.5.anything is a development kernel and so allways in testing by its very nature. I am running 2.6.0-test3 and its been rock solid so far but as with everything YMMV.

Regards

eddy

[Emc2]

If i go to 2.6 and things don't work out, can I get back to 2.4 without having to reinstall?

[CMonster]

If i go to 2.6 and things don't work out, can I get back to 2.4 without having to reinstall?

you can have a s many kernels as you want and boot into any of them -including your old kernel.. but you had better read the kernel tutorials so you know how to install multiple kernel images and add them to your boot loader. you have already been supplied with great links for this