Linux tips: Installing FC4 on nVidia 6150 chipset motherboard
After some pretty bad experience with installing FC4 on the SIS 756 chipset motherboard. Finally I had some better experience with installing FC4 on the nVidia 6150 chipset motherboard. Finally, it has proven yet again that nVidia is among the chipset manufacturer that has the best linux support. Thumbs up for nVidia.
Popping in the FC4 cd & booting up the computer, it feels so freshing that FC4 did not recognised the new 6150 onboard VGA chip & started graphical installation with the vesa driver. So everything is just smooth sailing & installation was hassel free.
Upon rebooting & getting into XWindows, the first thing I noticed was that the onboard nVidia LAN chip is not recognised by the default 2.6.11 kernel. As I usually do, I popped in the ever reliable SMC network card with the accton chipset & rebooted FC4. Sure enough, FC4 auto-configured the SMC nic & the network is up.
Doing a
yum install yumex
simply install yum extender package manager. This way I can select to update only the latest kernel for testing first.
Doing live-update using yum extender finally installed the latest kernel 2.6.14-1.1644_FC4. Upon rebooting, I see the forcedeth nVidia onboard lan chip detected. After removing the SMC nic & restarting the FC4, the system is up with all network connections up & running with the nVidia onboard lan chip.
Did a check on
vi /var/log/dmesg
& found that the nVidia's ide controller are all installed & well with dma enabled.
Next, I downloaded the nVidia graphic driver 1.0-8174 for linux. 1.0-8174 is known to be first nVidia driver to support the 6150 in linux. Installation was as simple as doing a
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8174-pkg1.run
Sure enough, X started with the latest 6150 linux driver & the desktop response speed is notedly faster then the VESA driver mode, obviously.
Finally, the only problem seemed that the onboard nVidia sound chip's driver is still not in 2.6.14's kernel yet. It's only a matter of time, the next live update or so will get the onboard sound working with FC4 as well.
Thumbs up for nVidia for such good linux support. Undoubtedly, the best hardware manufacturer with the best linux support.
Popping in the FC4 cd & booting up the computer, it feels so freshing that FC4 did not recognised the new 6150 onboard VGA chip & started graphical installation with the vesa driver. So everything is just smooth sailing & installation was hassel free.
Upon rebooting & getting into XWindows, the first thing I noticed was that the onboard nVidia LAN chip is not recognised by the default 2.6.11 kernel. As I usually do, I popped in the ever reliable SMC network card with the accton chipset & rebooted FC4. Sure enough, FC4 auto-configured the SMC nic & the network is up.
Doing a
yum install yumex
simply install yum extender package manager. This way I can select to update only the latest kernel for testing first.
Doing live-update using yum extender finally installed the latest kernel 2.6.14-1.1644_FC4. Upon rebooting, I see the forcedeth nVidia onboard lan chip detected. After removing the SMC nic & restarting the FC4, the system is up with all network connections up & running with the nVidia onboard lan chip.
Did a check on
vi /var/log/dmesg
& found that the nVidia's ide controller are all installed & well with dma enabled.
Next, I downloaded the nVidia graphic driver 1.0-8174 for linux. 1.0-8174 is known to be first nVidia driver to support the 6150 in linux. Installation was as simple as doing a
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8174-pkg1.run
Sure enough, X started with the latest 6150 linux driver & the desktop response speed is notedly faster then the VESA driver mode, obviously.
Finally, the only problem seemed that the onboard nVidia sound chip's driver is still not in 2.6.14's kernel yet. It's only a matter of time, the next live update or so will get the onboard sound working with FC4 as well.
Thumbs up for nVidia for such good linux support. Undoubtedly, the best hardware manufacturer with the best linux support.
posted by coyote at 11:14 PM
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