And in another followup, several people pointed at the forcedepth Linux driver (for which I can’t find a link – help!) for Nvidia-chipset network cards as an alternative to get the Shuttle boards working. (previous story) Matthew Dillon’s going to look at them.
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I don’t know how “official” this link is, but this explains a bit about it: http://www.hailfinger.org/carldani/linux/patches/forcedeth/
I think it’s in the mainline Linux kernel these days though.
Yeah… It’s not forcedepth but forcedeth ([n]Force(d?) eth)
You mean this one?
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;h=525624fc03b47016c2d1f1586d49d92e83c4dbba;hb=cd52d1ee9a92587b242d946a2300a3245d3b885a;f=drivers/net/forcedeth.c
It’s for the onboard ethernet interface of NVIDIA’s nForce chipsets, though, i.e., not for graphics.
noone was talking about graphics cards…