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| Author: | aovermy [ Wed Jun 16, 2004 12:55 am ] |
| Post subject: | R4V4.1 on a gigabyte GA-7N400V Pro2 / PVR250/ nvidia 5200fx |
GA-7N400V Pro2 is a Nforce2 based chipset board with a lot of bells & whistles (IEEE1394 (ohci1394 seems to work with it), 4 IDE ATA ports, 2 SATA ports, GIG ethernet <see below>, SPDIF, 6 chan audio... What I had to do to make it work reliably is disable the onboard r8169 ethernet device (and also remove it from /etc/modules) and add in a $5.38 (including tax) Dlink 530tx+ (8139) NIC and add 8139too to /etc/modules. the r8169 caused lockups when connected to it and running commands over it that make a lot of outbound lan traffic. It looks like its been addressed in the 2.6 kernels and backported to 2.4 in or around 2.4.27. I just decided spending the $5.38 to be less stressful than installing a new kernel. Amy |
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| Author: | aovermy [ Sun Jun 27, 2004 7:37 am ] |
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And an update, if you want to use this board and wish to use the 3 & 4 ATA IDE ports (not the SATA ports -- these seem to be supported "out of the box") you will need the iteraid driver found at http://www.ite.com.tw/productInfo/Download.html it's the ITE8212 device. There is source. Get the source. If you haven't unpacked your linux kernel do so. make sure your /usr/src/linux link is to the kernel source put the iteraid source somewhere. edit the makefile so SRCPATH points to /usr/src/linux run make copy the iteraid.o file to somewhere in /lib/modules/2.4.25-chw/kernel/drivers directory. I thought ide was a good directory, but in retrospect, scsi would be better. update-modules modprobe iteraid check /var/log/messages to see what it assigned the drive as. Your ide port shouldl be detected as a SCSI. (sdX) I have not tried the RAID variant. Amy |
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| Author: | tjc [ Sun Jul 25, 2004 11:16 pm ] |
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Are you using the svideo tv-out of the Nvidia FX5200? How does it compare to the broadcast picture from your TV tuner? I've heard positive comments on this chipset and am looking for more data points... |
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