On 07 Dec 2006 09:29:46 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> "IM" == Ian Malone <ibmalone@xxxxxxxxx> writes: IM> What I would like to know: Do nForce 430 boards, in general, work IM> on FCx. Yes, just fine. I have a few dozen of the socket 939 version in production without issue.
Good to hear.
IM> Using OSS drivers (I'd generally use the nvidia video IM> driver but I'd prefer if P/SATA etc were handled by solid OSS IM> stuff). Is anyone using this specific board? I have the M2NPV-VM board in a couple of machines; it should be pretty much the same thing except it's uATX. There are some minor issues: The sound only works with more recent Fedora kernel updates and, at least on FC5, require that you add this to /etc/modprobe.conf: options snd-hda-intel position_fix=1 model=3stack
Thanks for the tip, though I'm planning to keep my own soundcard (it's just v. difficult to get onboard video without onboard sound).
If you're planning to use CPU frequency scaling and the onboard graphics (at least the -VM board has both analog and DVI), be aware that the screen glitches very slightly when the clock speed changes. (The CPU will clock down to 1GHz when idle, which is very nice for noise, heat output and power consumption.)
Yes, both analogue and DVI on this one, which is a nice feature for the price.
Also, note that you may need to disable rhgb and/or force X to use a software cursor because there's a bug in the open source NV driver that causes the hardware cursor to disappear.
A little worrying, not a show stopper. Thanks for your reply. -- imalone
