nVidia Computer

[Karl Larsen]

Owen Townend wrote:
> On 15/04/2008, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>   
>>
>>     Thanks for your comments Leonard! I only wish my computer would work
>> as well as yours with the "nv" driver. It is pretty good but not good
>> enough for me.
>>
>>     I just from Newegg bought a new motherboard  which is a Gigibyte
>> GA-MA78GM-S2H AM2 AMD 780G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard.  It has a 30
>> day return for refund.
>>
>>     It will fit in my small enclosure and my older DVD and HD's should
>> all work. My RAM and AMD CPU should fit. It has ZERO nVidia hardware :-)
>>
>>
>> Karl
>>     
>
>
> Hey,
>   I have always had a good run with nvidia hardware and had never owned
> anything ati until last weekend when I bought the same motherboard as you.
>   The Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H is a great board so far, but definately
> has had its quirks for me. To install Gutsy you need the alternate disk, but
> none of the supplied kernels were apparently installable.
>   This meant I had to use a livecd (I used a hardy desktop beta) to chroot
> into a kernel-less system, install a newer kernel and then update initramfs
> and grub.
>   The alternative was to install Hardy but as this is to be a mythtv
> box and the Mythbuntu 8.04 beta did not prove to be stable enough I
> eventually went for the former. I haven't yet been able to get radeon,
> radeonhd or gfglx running under 2.6.22-14 but I am still hopeful[1].
> BTW gfglx worked perfectly under Hardy[2]. The onboard video is an HD3200
>
> Good luck,
> cheers,
> Owen
>
> [1] My RocketRaid rr1740 drivers won't compile past 2.6.22 as some functions
>
> have been deprecated, they haven't updated the driver and I haven't yet
> looked to see if I can patch it myself.
>
> [2] add Option "TexturedVideo" "on" to the Device section in xorg.conf
>   Without it xvinfo shows no devices.
>
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I plan to use the video hardware on the board. I could have got a video 
card and stuck it in this motherboard but never did.

Karl


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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