ASUS A7N8X Deluxe Questions
Quite some time ago, I was trying to get Debian working properly on my
primary workstation, an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe with 512MB RAM, Athlon 2500
Barton, and GeForce 5600FX 256MB AGP Video Card. Back then, I was having
all sorts of problems getting anything on the MB to work and getting the
nForce drivers compiled and installed.
This was traced to an apparent need to compile a 2.4.22 kernel (I was
running 2.4.18). After I attempted to compile the new kernel, my system
was rendered unbootable on the Linux side, most likely due to an error on
my part actually installing the kernel and configuring LILO properly.
Thankfully, I was able to still boot into Windows-98SE.
Anyway, I decided to give it another shot, and was even going to do a
fresh clean Debian install. First, however, I went ahead and booted up
with a Knoppix CD so I could write down my partition info. Well, Knoppix
managed to successfully boot to the KDE desktop, and even more
surprising; I had full Internet as well as LAN access, and the onboard
sound was working perfectly. Yet, the previous attempt at running
Knoppix failed and I was relegated to working from a text-based console
with no NIC or sound capabilities.
So now, why is it working all of a sudden? And even more importantly, is
there anything I can lift off of the Knoppix CD and install on my hard
drive in order to make the system operate properly without me having to
reinstall Debian afterall? If so, this could get me up and running under
Linux much sooner than expected, since I would apparently no longer have
a need to go through that messy process of compiling a new kernel.
Is it possible that I did indeed compile the 2.4.22 kernel properly, and
it is just a matter of configuring LILO properly now?
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