I will be getting an nForce 2 msi k7n2 delta in a few days. I plan to run Red Hat 9 and other distros on it. How hard is it to get an nforce working on linux? any experiences?

Why would it be difficult? It should go along quite easily, as far as I''ve seen linux is really good about supporting hardware. It may not be able to utilize the 5.1 capabilities of the nforce2, because in order to do that you need to use the nforce2 software which is windows.

You''ll probaby want to download the nvidia network driver before installing. It''s not open source, so redhat might not include it on the cd.

Just download all the NForce-drivers from NVidia''s website, closely follow the included instructions, and you should be fine. Nothing to it, except if you really can''t figure out how to compile yourself a kernel....

i don''t have personal experience with said chipset but a friend of mine had a lot of trouble getting agp 8x to work. insomuchas the standard 2.4 kernel doesn''t support agp 8x so you will either have to get a kernel patch from nvidia (i think) or upgrade to 2.5. the problem with that being that you have to compile the kernel yourself and depending on how experienced with linux you are this may be very difficult to get a working kernel (having to choose loads of options that you don''t really know what are for etc) or fairly easy.

You have to compile and install drivers for the on-board stuff yourself - namely the NIC & the sound card. There's a decent package for installing the video drivers.

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[edited by - Magmai Kai Holmlor on September 29, 2003 7:00:20 PM]

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Original post by NaliXL
Just download all the NForce-drivers from NVidia''s website, closely follow the included instructions, and you should be fine. Nothing to it, except if you really can''t figure out how to compile yourself a kernel....

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uh oh, ill have a hard time then, I have no idea how to compile or upgrade a kernel...but ill just try following the instructions and see what works.

You don''t have to compile a custom kernel; the nVidia drivers are loadable modules (nvnet.o nvaudio.o)