AMD Athlon64...

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Tue, 17 May 2005 10:05, Glenn Sieb wrote:
> Daniel O'Connor said the following on 5/16/2005 8:12 PM:
> >I'd be reluctant to use it since it has an nForce chipset, I have an AV8
> > here which is working almost flawlessly (The only problem is that vge
> > only work when compiled into the kernel). It's running 5.3 on an Athlon64
> > 3000+.
>
> Mm. There is that. Though it's easy enough to download the port & files
> onto a thumb drive or floppy beforehand and pop the driver on after the
> install.
>
> It just adds a pre-step to updating the kernel  (download & install the
> latest port for the driver... do the build/installkernel, then go back
> and de/reinstall the port--I'm sure there's a better way of doing it,
> but that's what I've been doing.)

??
The vge driver is in the 5.3 GENERIC kernel. I normally make my kernels fairly 
minimal but it seems the vge driver doesn't work properly as a module, only 
built into the kernel.

Maybe you're thinking of the nvnet driver.

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