ABit NF-M2S and Debian etch

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This was relatively straightforward once a PCI IDE card had been added to work around the nonfunctional IDE port discussed earlier. (I assume that other instances of this board have working IDE, but I wouldn't know.)

The hard disks showed up as hdc and hdd, so /etc/fstab needed editing. However, the existing grub install needed no special attention. Everything but /boot is on LVM which might have made things easier; equally so might using labels or UUIDs.

X server configuration had to be redone for the onboard video, and needed telling to use the nv driver explicitly, but otherwise just worked. lspci reports it as "nVidia Corporation Unknown device 03d1" which may or may not explain why it wasn't detected automatically.

The onboard ethernet just worked. /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules had to be removed to stop Linux from renaming it to eth1. I think persistent MAC-to-name binding might be more useful if it discarded absent MACs rather than renaming to avoid them. lspci reports it as "Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169SC Gigabit Ethernet".

We had to upgrade to the 2.6.25 kernel (from etch-backports) before sound would work, but alsaconf detected it and chose snd-hda-intel having done that. We used the amd64 kernel variant despite the 32-bit userland, and that worked fine apart from a bit of wittering about dodgy ioctls in dmesg, which seems to be harmless in actual practice. lspci reports the sound device as "nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio".