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silverblade
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 Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 9:43 am Post subject: Asus A7N8X Deluxe - which kernel options? |
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I recently became the proud owner of an Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard. Seems to work fine under Windows, but I want to tinker with Linux, as I read that it supports it.
What I want to know is what options I should compile my kernel with, to allow full functionality of the board while still stripping out some of the excess stuff I don't need.
Also, while I have on-board SATA RAID, I don't use it. Searching for drives on the RAID controller seems to create a couple of minutes delay when booting Linux  Any way to stop this other than to disable the SATA controller on the motherboard?
I have emerged the nvidia kernel sources, but saw no option in my kernel config for them - first time round, I used genkernel, but I'm trying to do it manually this time. Am I missing something?
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nerdbert
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 3:50 pm Post subject: Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe - which kernel options? |
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I have emerged the nvidia kernel sources, but saw no option in my kernel config for them - first time round, I used genkernel, but I'm trying to do it manually this time. Am I missing something? |
emerge nvidia-kernel basically puts the module in /lib/modules/<your kernel>/video.
So you just need to modprobe it and put it into your modules.autoload (so it will be modprobed the next time you boot).
In order to compile a bootable kernel for your setup you should make sure that you'll select A) the correct chipset and B) the correct CPU in menuconfig.
edit: Keep in mind that you'll have to reemerge nvidia whenever you recompile the kernel's modules.
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Admiral LSD
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There are a couple of other things you need to be careful about on nForce boards. Here is the config I use for my 8RDA+ (running gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.3-r2), it'll probably need some modification before it'll work on your system but it should serve as a general idea of what you need.
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pi314
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Searching for drives on the RAID controller seems to create a couple of minutes delay when booting Linux |
for lilo a simple append="hdX=noprobe" where you need one entry for every disk X linux is searching for. I think under grub there is some similar option
those 6.2.3-kernels inklude build in support for your secondary lan adaptor, so use them if you need it and don't want to patch your kernel manually
... I never emerged nvidia-kernel and everything is working fine (never tried to use sound cause I'm running an emu10k1 chip instead). I'm not realy shure but I thing I read something that you don't need to emerge nvidia-kernel when you use an 2.6.3-kernel |
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