Installing / Configuring nForce

[SoaringCondor]

I recently installed Fedore Core 1 since RedHat is discontinuing and need some help setting up my Ethernet and Soundcard. The system install automatically detected my other card in the system (unused) and set it up as eth0 correctly (but since there is no cable plugged in there isn't much point.) I went to the nVidia website and found the driver page for the nForce unified drive and it supports Linux but I am unsure as to how to set it up. The page is here (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0261). Would a RedHat RPM binary work or do I need to build it from scratch with Fedora?

Also - my sound card (onboard with the nForce motherboard) was detected but my back right and back left channels arn't working. I'm assuming that this will be fixable with the nForce drivers as I couldn't find the option for it under the included sound configuration utilities.

Thanks,
Justin

[SoaringCondor]

I've been trying to fix this myself now that I got linux to read my Windows NTFS partition and hit a couple of snags. Since nVidia dosn't have binary RPMs available for Fedora 1 I got the source RPM. However, rpm dosn't recognize the option: "--rebuild" like the included helpfile (here (http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nforce/1.0-0261/ReleaseNotes_Linux_nForce_1.0-0261.html)) instructs you to. Is there an alternative comand for it or should I attempt to figure out how to use the source distrobution?

Thanks,
Justin

[valoy]

Try mandrake. It has better driver support.

[SuperNu]

Red Hat changed RPM a little bit between releases. You used to be able to pass --rebuild to rpm and it would rebuild a source rpm, but now you cannot. What you have to do is to use rpmbuild --rebuild <source rpm>. What I like to do is to also add --target <arch>. This will turn on cpu optimizations. Since I use an AMD atlon cpu, I would use rpmbuild --rebuild --target athlon file.src.rpm. Hope this helps.

--SN