Hi!

Mike O'Connor schrieb:
> Howard Weatherly wrote:
>> Has anyone installed OS/2 (Any) on this board? I seem to be able to get 
>> thru the beginning part up until OS/2 attempts to boot and copy 
>> remaining files. I was thinking it might be a graphics issue (NVDIA 
>> GeForce 6150) but it could be anything!
>>   
> Hi Howard,
> 
> I gave up trying with all Asustek M2Nxxxxxxxx boards with their NVidia 
> chipsets - not only unable to get video drivers , but also unable to use 
> the NVidia MCPxxxx (Media and Communications Processor) units with their 
> PHY Gigabit network chip. If you are satisfied with 100Mbit networking, 
> the M2V series boards work perfectly with the onboard Realtek 8100B/C 
> using Veit Kannegeiser's RTL8139-family driver and if one has adequate 
> RAM fitted - up to a quarter of that RAM can be used for video with the 
> VIA-based boards with onboard VIA DeltaChrome** graphics - e.g. the 
> M2V-MX series - I have everything working stably and perfect IMHO - 
> except for the Azalea 6 (8?)way HDA - and AC97 codecs - but have been 
> far too busy and damaged (diplopia/strabismus - double vision to the 
> layman) to ichase that up - heck I never even had any souncard between 
> 1979 and 1995!

eCS 2.0 RC4 installs pretty well on the M2N... boards.
The onboard GeForce 6100/6150 works without a problem and quite fast with the 
Panorama drivers.
SNAP also does it's job but runs in VESA mode, with is much slower then the VESA 
mode of the Panorama driver, so you should use the Panorama driver.

Network is also no problem with the driver from Nikk:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=nveth

I've got the ASUS Pundit P1-AH2 Barebone PC which has an L-Shaped ASUS 
M2N-8L..or what the exact motherboard name is.
The only problem I have is ACPI when I try to use the "/SMP"
switch. This is 
constantly failing with a TRAP for the ACPI v3.0x line of ACPI drivers 
(including the 3.07). The only ACPI driver version that is working with /SMP 
here is the ACPI v2.22!
I've tried to get this fixed with extensive debugging together with Pavel but so 
far it's not working.

I've not tried to use the onboard HDA sound chipset as it is known that the ALSA 
drivers are not working right now. Better get one of the old SB Live! 
(Player/5.1) cards and use the SBLive 0.8.x driver from Sander. I think this is 
the best sound driver ever been written for OS/2.
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Kind regards,
Juergen Ulbts

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