A7N8X

taskara · Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2003 3:22 am Post subject:

don't think so... that sound didn't work for me

u can try the latest CVS version of alsa, it has support for nforce2 sound

alsa guide

alsa info on nforce sound

make sure you emerge alsa-driver, then get the latest version from cvs, the portage version does not have support for it.

there is also a post about nforce2 sound here and about alsa driver here
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John2583 · Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2003 4:26 am Post subject:

taskara · Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2003 4:46 am Post subject:

are you using a temporary nic atm ? will you keep that in there? or take it out? if you keep it in, then the nforce nic will become eth1 - but if you take the temp nic out, the nforce nic will become eth0.

it's easy to configure, you just need to add the nvnet module to modules.autoload and copy the line in your /etc/rc.conf for eth0, and make it eth1 (assuming you're keeping in your other network card)

then cp /etc/init.d/eth0 >> /etc/init.d/eth1
rc-update net.eth1 default
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John2583 · Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2003 1:54 pm Post subject:

I've got my NVIDIA(Realtek PHY) lan working. It's setup as eth0. I'm not going to worry about the 3com one for a while. Also, sound does work!! Here's the relavent dmesg output:

taskara · Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2003 8:25 pm Post subject:

cool man

gentoo IS awesome

so did you get the nvidia nic working ?

you can take your realtek nic out, and then your nvidia nic will be eth0

I had three nics all working in my machine before

realtek 8139, 3Com, and nvidia hehe it was crazy
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John2583 · Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2003 3:32 am Post subject:

yep. I'm using the onboard NVIDIA NIC, I never used anything eles. I'm loving this man. I haven't been using linux for about 6 months. I didn't realize how much I missed it. There's something about using an OS that you feel completely in control of. I love gentoo too because I install only the progs I need. As I go through the day, I'll think of something I want like xosview, so i'll do an emerge xosview -p and then install it. and so far everything i've told it to install has gone flawlessly. I was REALLY impressed when I loaded up mozilla and it had Anti-Aliased fonts. I think the anti-aliasing is better than WinXP. Not quite OS X but close. I had been using an Apple iBook w/ Mac OS X. I had yellow dog linux on it for a bit, but it took up too much hard drvie space, so away it went... now i'm here.

taskara · Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2003 4:05 am Post subject:

you can put gentoo on a ppc too

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Luguber · n00b Joined: 09 Jul 2002 Posts: 31

I've been surfing alot to get my A7N8X to work. The thing I've not tested yet is the 3com NIC, But I found some interesting posts on the forum on http://www.nforcershq.com. In a nutshell it stated that you sould download the 3c90x driver from 3com and compile it because the one that comes with the kernel doesn't work. This page lists three of them http://support.3com.com/infodeli/tools/nic/linuxdownload.htm

The things I have tested is the nvidia sound and nvidia networking interface And I've got ALSA to work with the motherboard.
A short description is found in this forum

When you get Alsa to work on this motherboard you are going to wonder how you managed to live without it. My previous soundcard was a SoundBlaster Live!, compared to this the nvidia sound is something of another world, completly without noise and extremely dynamic.
I've not tested Dolby surround yet, but there is a bunch of sliders in the alsamixer, so I suppose it works

The nvnet and nvsound works pretty well if you use the driver from Asus (on the bundled CD or from the website, if you are lucky enough to get any response) The file is called NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0248.tar.gz and works pretty well with both 2.4.19 and 2.4.20 kernels. When you compile this driver, answer yes to the question that goes something like "assume [-R]?". And everything will be okay.

For all those other questions earlier in the thread. Why are you hesitating? This Motherboard is fantastic

The only drawback to this board is that you have to do some extra steps every time you compile a kernel for it.

Regards!
Luguber.

taskara · Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2003 9:00 pm Post subject:

hey... there is an ebuild for the nvidia driver

laststraw · n00b Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Posts: 16

I currently have sound, I am running alsa 0.9.1

I have been having issues with USB... specifically a printer being recognized. Sometimes it shows up in dmesg other times it does not...

Also, nvnet module loads but I have been unable to get the nic to work

I am running 2.4.20-r1 kernel Here is my dmesg:

Linux version 2.4.20-gentoo-r1 (root@pvr) (gcc version 3.2.2) #8 Tue Mar 18 00:34:15 EST 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000002fff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000002fff0000 - 000000002fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000002fff3000 - 0000000030000000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
user-defined physical RAM map:
user: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
user: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
user: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
user: 0000000000100000 - 000000002fff0000 (usable)
767MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 196592
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 192496 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda2 mem=786368K
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1293.080 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 2547.71 BogoMIPS
Memory: 771680k/786368k available (1302k kernel code, 12124k reserved, 524k data, 68k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1500+ stepping 01
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb560, last bus=3
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Using IRQ router default [10de/01e0] at 00:00.0
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-0

with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 48, VID=10de, DID=0065
PCI_IDE: chipset revision 162
PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: WDC WD400BB-00DEA0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: Maxtor 6Y080P0, ATA DISK drive
hdc: LITEON DVD-ROM LTD-165H, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 78165360 sectors (40021 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4865/255/63
hdb: 160086528 sectors (81964 MB) w/7936KiB Cache, CHS=9964/255/63
hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Partition check:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 p2 p3
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
01:0a.0: 3Com PCI 3c900 Boomerang 10Mbps Combo at 0xa000. Vers LK1.1.16
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 690M
agpgart: unsupported bridge
agpgart: no supported devices found.
usb.c: registered new driver hub
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:02.0 to 64
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xf0804000, IRQ 5
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.0, PCI device 10de:0067 (nVidia Corporation)
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 3 ports detected
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin B of device 00:02.1. Please try using pci=biosirq.
usb-ohci.c: found OHCI device with no IRQ assigned. check BIOS settings!
usb.c: registered new driver usblp
printer.c: v0.11: USB Printer Device Class driver
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 68k freed
Adding Swap: 1871564k swap-space (priority -1)
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:04.0 to 64
nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVdriver Kernel Module 1.0-3123 Tue Aug 27 15:56:48 PDT 2002
i2c-core.o: i2c core module version 2.7.0 (20021208)
i2c-algo-bit.o: i2c bit algorithm module version 2.7.0 (20021208)
bttv: driver version 0.7.105 loaded
bttv: using 4 buffers with 2080k (8320k total) for capture
bttv: Host bridge is PCI device 10de:01e0 (nVidia Corporation)
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 01:07.0, irq: 11, latency: 32, mmio: 0xdc000000
bttv0: detected: AVerMedia TVCapture 98 [card=13], PCI subsystem ID is 1461:0004
bttv0: using: BT878(AVerMedia TVCapture 9

[card=13,autodetected]
bttv0: Hauppauge/Voodoo msp34xx: reset line init [11]
bttv0: Avermedia eeprom[0x4002]: tuner=2 radio:no remote control:no
bttv0: using tuner=2
bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx (alternate address) @ 0x88... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
tvaudio: TV audio decoder + audio/video mux driver
tvaudio: known chips: tda9840,tda9873h,tda9874h/a,tda9850,tda9855,tea6300,tea6420,tda8425,pic16c54 (PV951)
tuner: probing bt848 #0 i2c adapter [id=0x10005]
tuner: chip found @ 0xc2
tuner: type set to 2 (Philips NTSC (FI1236,FM1236 and compatibles))
bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok
bttv0: registered device video0
bttv0: registered device vbi0
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,65), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,66), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,67), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:06.0 to 64
intel8x0: clocking to 47423
0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o Kernel Module 1.0-4191 Mon Dec 9 11:49:01 PST 2002
0: NVRM: AGPGART: unable to retrieve symbol table
0: NVRM: AGPGART: unable to retrieve symbol table
bttv0: PLL can sleep, using XTAL (28636363).

This time the printer was not recognized....

Here is lsmod...

snd-mixer-oss 13848 0 (autoclean) (unused)
nvidia 1468800 10
snd-intel8x0 19908 0
snd-pcm 65024 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-timer 15880 0 [snd-pcm]
snd-ac97-codec 37888 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-page-alloc 5292 0 [snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm]
snd-mpu401-uart 3584 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-rawmidi 15072 0 [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 4448 0 [snd-rawmidi]
snd 32644 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
tuner 9632 1 (autoclean)
tvaudio 11708 0 (autoclean) (unused)
bttv 72224 0
i2c-algo-bit 7368 1 [bttv]
i2c-core 13832 0 [tuner tvaudio bttv i2c-algo-bit]
soundcore 3524 1 [snd bttv]
nvnet 26112 0 (unused)

I have nvnet set to this in modules.conf
alias eth1 nvnet

Any ideas out there?

taskara · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 2:53 am Post subject:

hmm did you specify an ip address ? try:

laststraw · n00b Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Posts: 16

Why didn't I think of that....

Here it is...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:97:29:1D:7E
inet addr:192.168.1.103 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3438 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:147 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:1095886 (1.0 Mb) TX bytes:22847 (22.3 Kb)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0xa000

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:6E:06:2B:BA
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x3000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:210 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:210 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:35766 (34.9 Kb) TX bytes:35766 (34.9 Kb)

So nvidia is eth1 but when I plug the cable into it and run dhcpcd eth1 it times out. It is enabled in the bios...I guess it would not show up otherwise. When I plug the cable into it ... it blinks rapidly and then goes solid.

BTW... I got the printer recognized. It is working now everytime. I had to plug it into the first USB port which is the lower right one if looking from the back. I am still having COM1 issues as well. Linux does not seem to be seeing it.

taskara · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 9:14 pm Post subject:

good.. so your nvidia nic IS recognised, it just isn't getting an ip.

hmmm.. strange about the usb and com port issues, but let's work on the nic atm!

well u could try specifying an ip address for the nvidia nic and see if you can ping your dhcp server.

did you make a second nic extry in /etc/conf.d/net ?

and also did you make an init script for eth1 ? that should be in /etc/init.d/net.eth1 ?

and did you run

laststraw · n00b Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Posts: 16

Yes I made the second nic entry in /etc/conf.d/net
Yes I made the init script for eth1

I did not run

doughboy · n00b Joined: 21 Mar 2003 Posts: 5

laststraw · n00b Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Posts: 16

OK... I spent quite a while lastnight trying to get this to work.

I had already emerged the nforce-net. I tried assigning the IP as you had suggested and was able to ping my router...however I had about 75% lost packets. At this point I was done with the nforce nic.

On to the 3com...
I found a patch to the 3c95x driver that supposedly recognized the nic. I found it here...http://home.t-online.de/home/Johannes.Deisenhofer/nforce2linux.html made the changes recompiled kernel... negative.

For those who have these nics working...Are you using gentoo-sources/2.4.20r1? I just now see there is a r2...I guess I will try that.

Soooooooooo I am still using my 3c900 which is tried and true and seems to always work.

Cmor · Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2003 2:48 am Post subject: spdif

Anyone get the SPDIF to work under linux or is that another casualty of early drivers...? Under windows it must be chosen to work but there's no real word on what one has to do under linux ( of any flavor ) to make it work . I even tried using Mandrake 9 and the nvidia driver rpms and jack diddly. I'd hoped nvidia would work a little harder on this stuff since it seems there hasnt been squat in 4 months from them regarding nforce2 support issues.

fumtu99 · n00b Joined: 05 Sep 2002 Posts: 59

Look at the "A7N8X Deluxe" thread for the long form of this; but I thought I'd put this here, too, since non-Deluxe A7N8X owners might find it useful: to get the onboard Ethernet connection going, you'll need the nvnet driver installed - if you can read this msg and you don't have it, you can do an "emerge nforce-net" to do so. IF you want to connect to the net through that port and your ISP uses DHCP (most do), then you're probably going through a cable or DSL modem. Then the key thing that made a difference for me was to connect to the onboard port, cycle power on the modem (if it's an internal one, this probably means cycling power to the whole machine, actually turning off power on the power supply or power strip) and wait a while before booting up with nvnet in my /etc/modules.autoload file; it appears that w/ some modems and some ISPs, msgs from your new port will be dropped until this happens. If after rebooting, DHCP still doesn't work, wait a while longer and try rebooting again - it took somwhere between 1 and 2 hours to get things to come up for me properly...

Remember to re-emerge nforce-net if you rebuild your kernel, BTW - it will wipe the driver module from you /lib/modules/xxx directory when you do a "make modules_install", just like it will wipe the ALSA driver...

James