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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (92210)	1/13/2003 5:41:02 PM
From: DRBES	Respond to of 275872

re: "I'm now wondering if I should have gone with Intel." Perhaps...perhaps not. The problem is not likely to lie directly with the processor. Any such broad incompatibility would be extremely well publicized. Most problems trace to other components most, often the motherboard. By the way, are you sure that Suse Linux 8.1 is compatible with configuring it as you apparently have for that particular multiple boot system ? Do let us what you find out. Regards, DARBES

To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (92210)	1/13/2003 5:55:50 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Go here for NForce linux drivers: nvidia.com This page contains drivers and documentation for the nForce chipset. The chipset includes hardware support for IDE disk control, ethernet networking, audio support, win modem support, and a USB controller. These packages have support for ethernet networking and basic ACI audio. USB and IDE hardware will work with standard Linux drivers. ----- STEP 3: Download Drivers To simplify installation, the suite of nForce Linux drivers are bundled into a single package. If you are using one of the distributions mentioned below, and haven't installed a different kernel (or significantly modified the default one), the installation will be very simple. If you don't use one of the distributions listed or have a custom kernel, please choose one of the alternative installation packages. Directly Supported Distributions These links contain binary RPMs with drivers and documentation for installing nforce drivers in these major linux distributions. Suse 8.1 is one of the 7 directly supported linux distributions.

To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (92210)	1/13/2003 5:58:24 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Pravin, re: I'm now wondering if I should have gone with Intel. What you say? John

To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (92210)	1/13/2003 8:18:55 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 275872

Pravin, Intel CPUs don't live in the vacuum. Your installation locked up because whatever installation of Linux you used did not know how to recognize various components of the chipset. Windows has a number of generic drivers for various devices, so that the OS installation can proceed, and later on, you can load optimized ones from the component manufacturers. Joe

To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (92210)	1/13/2003 8:39:52 PM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Dear Pravin: I have installed Suse 7.3 and Suse 8.0 as well as most of the other distributions. Three quick questions. One, do you have another system to use to build a new Linux kernel? Two, do you desire Suse or would you not mind another Linux Distribution? Three, do you have a broadband internet connection? If you do have another system to build a Linux kernel with the nVidia IDE and AGP (VGA) drivers, then simply build a kernel with those drivers directly linked into the kernel and use that image to boot your box into Linux. Then you can proceed to partition, mkfs (format) and install all those packages you want. If you are not married to a particular Linux distribution, try a different one like Mandrake, Red Hat or Debian. If you have access to a broadband connection, try Gentoo Linux at: gentoo.org . It allows for the compilation to optimize for a Palomino or Tbred and to build in all the nforce2 drivers. Pete