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Re: Woody & Nforce 2 Chipset Mainboard Drivers - Frustrating



Byron Hillis wrote:
Hi everybody,

Newbie here...but learning.

I'm trying to get the Nvidia Nforce 2 Drivers running on a pretty standard
Debian
Woody Install. I'm running the 2.4.18 kernel (the optional one in Woody
(bf24), and
the installer tells me that the kernel is not supported so I need to specify
the
source path.

So I got the source for my kernel, all unpacked, ran the installer again
with source
path specified and now it tells me that I need to provide the source output
path.

I can't find any reference to this anywhere so can someone please give me
some
guidance?

Does someone have an Nforce motherboard working properly with Debian at all?

Thanks,

Byron


You need at least a 2.4.24 (I think) or a 2.6.6 (again, I think) to get
all the features of the nForce2.  The advantage to updating the kernel
is that all the support is already in the kernel tree and there is no
need to compile external modules.

Personally, I would recommend getting the latest 2.4 kernel source
(either the kernel-source-2.4.27 package from Sid or one of the
2.4 kernel tarballs from kernel.org) and then use kernel-package
to build it yourself. Instructions for that are available here:

http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html

HTH,

-Roberto Sanchez

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