Linux & Asus A7N266-VM

[brunix]

I am tring to get Slackware 9.0 running on a A7N266. It is a all on board with nvidia chipset. I have gotten close I think but still no cigar. Just wondering if any one has slack setup up with the nvidia chipset. Did you have to recompile the kernel?

[the jester]

reading around and there seem to be a slew of suggestions

to start simply, how about turning off USB legacy support in the bios - people report that this has resolved install problems for a number of distros and USB worked anyway with no additional steps

if you've already tried that, then there are a few commands you can pass at the boot prompt when you start the install process:

nohotplug
nousb
noapic
noapci

people report varying degrees of success with different combinations of these on the same/similar mobo - caveat: some people say that the install will go, but then the onboard networking will need post-install tinkering to get it working

finally, you have the option of making your own kernel, but you may not want to go there yet - one way to make this as painless as possible is to install mdk / rh and then open up the /var/log/messages from the install to see what hardware was detected, also lsmod to list the modules being used - make a note of this info and then try building your own under slack

hopefully someone who has actually succeeded on the same mobo as yours will be along in a bit, for now good luck

[lynchmob]

You can get the drivers from nVidia .
SuSE 9 found everything except my on-board nic so I installed the NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.suse90.i586.rpm and configured it manually.The board is a Shuttle AN35N Ultra .
HTH
lynch

[brunix]

Thanks Guys

I turned off everything I could find in bios with usb connected to it. USB is still listed in the /var/log. I also downloaded and ran both the the .scr.rpm and .tar from Nvidia. I should be able to get it working then. It is that manually configing that keeps me going is circles. I will keep working at it.

Thanks
Brunix

[lynchmob]

I only had to do the nic but I'll show you what I did for that:
After installing the driver(s) I edited /etc/modules.conf,adding these 2 lines:
alias etho nvnet
options nvnet optimization=1

I then ran
modprobe nvnet it issued a warning about signatures but that's SuSE-centric i think.
Then I re-configured my eth0 with YaST2.I dont know the tool Slackware uses,maybe netconfig?
HTH
lynch

[brunix]

Thanks lynch for the help it worked. When I ran
modprobe it made a starment that /etc/modules.conf was newer
than /lib/modules/2.4.20/modules.dep but I let it go. After a reboot
ifconfig showed my eth0 with all the correct ip's
modules.conf was a empty file untell now. Can I assume that nvaudio and nvgart will
take the same action?
Thanks again
brunix

p.s. this reply if comming through Lynx. Interesting but no pictures

[lynchmob]

Glad to hear that.My SuSE box is sitting without a monitor right at the moment(moving things around the house )so I cant say for sure but I believe it's using the ac97 module.Not sure though.
lynch