intel 945gnt mobo

[Eric S. Johansson]

I just spent an afternoon at my friendly white box shop trying to make 
5.04 ubuntu work.  Needless to say, it did not go well.

failure 1: ethernet.  Could not find ethernet driver.  Chipset is most 
likely 82573E/82573V/82574V but could be 82562GX/82562GZ.

failure 2: video/X11.  inside the Intel 945G is a GMA950 chip and from 
searching on the net, it seemed to be rather hit or miss as to whether 
it works.  Some people suggest using the i810 driver and others the vesa 
driver.

potential failure 3: the disks are all serial ATA and I am assuming from 
what I have read elsewhere that if I want raid 1, I can use just the 
ordinary md+lvm configuration.

suggestions on any of these problems?

if I try BB pre-release, will I have better luck?

--- eric