I don't see what nVidia has or should have to do with KT600. I'm
running the Soyo KT600 Dragon Ultra Platinum Edition ($15 AR) with an
nVidia FX5200 AGP card, nvidia OpenGL driver, and Fedora Core 2.
Everything works great, with easy setup, except that the onboard sound
was choppy, so I dropped in a separate sound card.
I also wanted to add that I experienced the same choppy sound in SuSE,
but in Mandrake the sound was perfect. It could be how our two different
distros setup their kernels.
Nvidia uses the NVAGP kernel module that has no support for the KT600
chipset when you install their driver. They recommend that you use the
AGPGART kernel module, instead. This is the only conclusion I've come to
, and I'm going to attempt to build my own kernel for the first time and
set it up that way and find out. I just haven't gotten around to it, yet.
This is from the nVidia ReadMe:
The following AGP chipsets are supported by NVIDIA's AGP; for all other
chipsets it is recommended that you use the AGPGART module.
<snip>
o AMD 8151 ("Lokar")
o VIA 8371
o VIA 82C694X
o VIA KT133
o VIA KT266
o VIA KT400
o VIA P4M266
o VIA P4M266A
o VIA P4X400
o RCC CNB20LE
Well I guess it's a Mandrake problem, because I've only had to do the
usual nVidia kernel-interface compilation (using the nVidia installer of
course) to get the 'nvidia' driver working under FC1 and FC2. You might
give FC2 and yum a try if you have the download bandwidth and a spare
partition or two. I've tried Mandrake and SUSE too, but I've had the
fewest problems with Fedora.
