2010-04-09, 19:18
I've got a PNY Verto 8400 GS PCI card installed in an Intel Atom Mini-ITX mobo (D945GCLF2), and I get some really weird behavior with it.
Without the 8400 GS card, and using the on-board GMA 950 graphics, I can install and run XBMC 9.11 Live no problem. As soon as I install the 8400 GS and attempt to re-install XBMC Live, the installer can see the hard drive but is unable to create a filesystem and mount it. Installing XBMC with the GMA 950 and *then* installing the 8400 GS doesn't work either, as the system will no longer boot. It appears to be the same issue, manifested in a different way: Linux can't reliably access the HD.
I've tried to install XBMC to a variety of devices: CF in a CF-to-IDE adapter; IDE flash module; USB flash drive; and regular SATA HD. All behave the same. It's as if the 8400 GS is trampling on a resource needed for hard drives. Though, having tried boot devices on 3 different buses (IDE, SATA, and USB), it's hard to imagine a singular hardware resource affecting all 3.
Some distros work, as long as you pass the "agp=off" kernel parameter. Doing this, Fedora 11 works perfectly fine on this rig. That's how I know the card's not faulty. I compiled XBMC for Fedora 11, and using Nvidia's 190.42 Linux drivers with VDPAU enabled, I can play really smooth HD video with the system. Furthermore, I have 2 GCLF2 boards, and get the same behavior when the 8400 GS is installed in either system.
Anyone else have experience integrating the 8400 GS, or other Nvidia GPUs, in the D945GCLF2 boards with Linux? There's got to be a simple trick to this, but it's eluding me right now.
Without the 8400 GS card, and using the on-board GMA 950 graphics, I can install and run XBMC 9.11 Live no problem. As soon as I install the 8400 GS and attempt to re-install XBMC Live, the installer can see the hard drive but is unable to create a filesystem and mount it. Installing XBMC with the GMA 950 and *then* installing the 8400 GS doesn't work either, as the system will no longer boot. It appears to be the same issue, manifested in a different way: Linux can't reliably access the HD.
I've tried to install XBMC to a variety of devices: CF in a CF-to-IDE adapter; IDE flash module; USB flash drive; and regular SATA HD. All behave the same. It's as if the 8400 GS is trampling on a resource needed for hard drives. Though, having tried boot devices on 3 different buses (IDE, SATA, and USB), it's hard to imagine a singular hardware resource affecting all 3.
Some distros work, as long as you pass the "agp=off" kernel parameter. Doing this, Fedora 11 works perfectly fine on this rig. That's how I know the card's not faulty. I compiled XBMC for Fedora 11, and using Nvidia's 190.42 Linux drivers with VDPAU enabled, I can play really smooth HD video with the system. Furthermore, I have 2 GCLF2 boards, and get the same behavior when the 8400 GS is installed in either system.
Anyone else have experience integrating the 8400 GS, or other Nvidia GPUs, in the D945GCLF2 boards with Linux? There's got to be a simple trick to this, but it's eluding me right now.
