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m9700 and Linux

post #1 of 4
8/27/06 at 10:03pm
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Has anyone successfully installed a linux distro on their m9700? With both SLI and RAID, I'm guessing either or both of these are the culprit for my linux installation woes.

If anyone has had some success, I welcome your input - it would be much appreciated!
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post #2 of 4
8/28/06 at 1:55pm
I'm in the process of doing this at the moment - albeit Gentoo, not Ubuntu.

It took me a while to find a LiveCD that would boot properly (Kanotix was the key there), and now I'm banging my head against WiFi issues as the RT2500 drivers are somewhat immature and buggy, but it's getting there.

SLi hasn't been an issue for me - the config that Xorg spat out first off configured itself as dual-head, but that's easily stripped out to a single head at least to get things up and running.

As for RAID - it should be supported, but I must be honest - I disabled it long ago so that a) Norton Ghost would work, and b) I could put Linux on the second physical drive and Windows on the first. Means I can get a bit of a power save by having the unused drive power down when in each OS.

What specific problems are you having?
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post #3 of 4
10/27/06 at 9:46pm
ANy distro of linux will most likely have problems talking to the Nvidia raid controler ck804. this type of controller is not considered a "true" HW raid. More software emulated. So its going to be a hassle to dual boot between windows and linux. Although I have seen some articles mentioning they got it working. Although its hours of tidious work. You would have to turn off the nvidia raid and use lvm to create the stripe or mirror..

As for the SLI config, i tried installing Ubuntu 6.10 on mine. and it didnt give me a proper X display back, after hitting alt-F1.. and logging in as root, i was able to take a look at /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and it looks like im going to have to tinker with it to get video going...

I also had problems with the wifi drivers.. I managed to get suse 10.1 installed, but the sky2 module that binds to the lan port. Gives me nothing but hassles.. I had problems finding a working realtek module too that would work with wpa.
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post #4 of 4
10/27/06 at 10:08pm
You manage to get Kanotix loaded? It wouldn't boot on my m9700. Was there something specific that you did? I got Knoppix working but the wireless network adapter wouldnt work. (btw, this was a LiveCD)
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