[ardour-users] Machine configurations

[Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen]

On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Ctirad Fertr wrote:

> > Having enormous difficulty getting Ardour running under Mandrake 9.2 for
> > various reasons. Most recently, it's seemingly because Mandrake doesn't
> > particularly like the ASUS A7N8X-Deluxe motherboard that came in the
> > machine.
>
> This mobo has Nforce2 chipset, which is probably the worst choice for linux.
> The chipset itself is not as bad, though it´s not fully supported and you
> need binary drivers from Nvidia to use all it's features.
>

Nonsense. The only current problem with using nforce2 chipset is the
huge amount of disinformation on the internet. There one proper
solution to fix the stability-problems with linux/nforce2 is:

"nolapic" kernel option.

(I'm really repeating myself now. :)


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