Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Centos 5.2 and MCP73 (ECS GF7050VT-M)

I wanted to upgrade my motherboard on my Mythbackend from a P4 2.4Ghz to a spare 1.8Ghz Core 2 Duo. I recently bought a Q6600 with a cheap motherboard (ECS GF7050VT-M) and put it on my Gigabyte board.

Now, I changed that Asus with P4 to this new ECS board. Centos 5.2 booted no problem but here's the following issues I'm having :

- No ethernet driver for built-in 100mbits NIC. Fixed.. Rebuilt kernel forcedeth module.
- No audio (actually crashed computer). Fixed. Rebuilt Alsa 1.0.17
- PATA is slow... (3 MB/sec). Not fixed yet. Need to rebuild sata_nv?

I'll try to document what I've done with alsa and forcedeth.

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