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]]> By: qense http://sensehofstede.nl/inactive/comment-page-1#comment-134 qense Sun, 18 May 2008 08:24:55 +0000 http://www.qense.nl/?p=96#comment-134 @Paul Bersch On the IDE harddisk I already got into the graphics environment witht he 9600GT! So fortunately things have improved. That's how I discovered that my onboard ethernet card didn't work properly. But thank you for your long reply, I'll try to disable AHCI if I can. (There is an option called SATA Mode, where you can choose between SATA, RAID and AHCI. That one was and is on SATA, so that can't be the problem.) @Paul Bersch
On the IDE harddisk I already got into the graphics environment witht he 9600GT! So fortunately things have improved. That’s how I discovered that my onboard ethernet card didn’t work properly. But thank you for your long reply, I’ll try to disable AHCI if I can. (There is an option called SATA Mode, where you can choose between SATA, RAID and AHCI. That one was and is on SATA, so that can’t be the problem.)

]]> By: Paul Bersch http://sensehofstede.nl/inactive/comment-page-1#comment-133 Paul Bersch Sat, 17 May 2008 20:59:29 +0000 http://www.qense.nl/?p=96#comment-133 Have you tried disabling AHCI in the BIOS? I've noticed that Linux often doesn't recognize SATA hard drives when AHCI is enabled. (Also, ACPI, AHCI, APCI are frustratingly similar acronyms. Fortunately, we have Wikipedia) Finally, I ran into problems getting xorg to start with my 9600GT card. It sounds like you haven't gotten to a GUI yet, so just in case I'll tell you what I did to fix that. The machine would boot, but would always hang with a black screen as soon as Xorg tried to start, probably since this card is still bleeding-edge as far as Linux drivers are concerned. After lots of false starts, the fix was to boot into recovery mode (select in Grub) and install the beta NVIDIA drivers (I'm using 137.08) from the command line. Hope some of that was helpful! Have you tried disabling AHCI in the BIOS? I’ve noticed that Linux often doesn’t recognize SATA hard drives when AHCI is enabled.

(Also, ACPI, AHCI, APCI are frustratingly similar acronyms. Fortunately, we have Wikipedia)

Finally, I ran into problems getting xorg to start with my 9600GT card. It sounds like you haven’t gotten to a GUI yet, so just in case I’ll tell you what I did to fix that.

The machine would boot, but would always hang with a black screen as soon as Xorg tried to start, probably since this card is still bleeding-edge as far as Linux drivers are concerned. After lots of false starts, the fix was to boot into recovery mode (select in Grub) and install the beta NVIDIA drivers (I’m using 137.08) from the command line.

Hope some of that was helpful!

]]> By: BadServo http://sensehofstede.nl/inactive/comment-page-1#comment-132 BadServo Sat, 17 May 2008 20:10:28 +0000 http://www.qense.nl/?p=96#comment-132 The thing on top of the graphics card is most likely for SLI support. This allows you to insert 2 cards and link them together (with a small bridge that plugs into the top of each graphics card) for increased performance. The thing on top of the graphics card is most likely for SLI support.

This allows you to insert 2 cards and link them together (with a small bridge that plugs into the top of each graphics card) for increased performance.

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