20 May
2005
20 May
'05
11:29 a.m.
Hi all,
My PC (an old Athlon 500Mhz) is getting really old and i'm looking to get
a brand new AMD64 (yes i'm an AMD guy ...).
So i'd just like to know if some of you out there have experiences,
issues, with such machines, heard that the driver support is not very good
yet. As well as were here in Lxuembourg I can get such a machine for a
good price. Thanks in advance.
Oh, yes one last thing I will probably install a Gentoo or Ubuntu system,
so any more specific issues with these are welcome, too ;)
ciao,
pst
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Pascal Steichen
pascal.steichen(a)lilux.lu
Lilux ASBL
http://www.lilux.lu/
20 May
20 May
12:08 p.m.
Hi all,
My PC (an old Athlon 500Mhz) is getting really old and i'm looking to get
a brand new AMD64 (yes i'm an AMD guy ...).
Nothing wrong about it....
So i'd just like to know if some of you out there
have experiences,
issues, with such machines, heard that the driver support is not very good
yet. As well as were here in Lxuembourg I can get such a machine for a
good price. Thanks in advance.
I have bought such a computer with an MSI Mainboard. Pierre Fonck has the
same machines @ school.It'a then MSI K8N series:
http://www.msi-computer.de/produkte/main_idx_view.php?Prod_id=418
I have no problems with it. I have SuSE 9.3 and Ubuntu installed.
Be careful not to have an NVIDIA chipset on it, since this makes some
problems.
Al
1:10 p.m.
Hi,
I got me such a machine a couple of months ago.
AMD 64 3500
nforce4 motherboard (asus)
geforce 6600 PCI-X
I run gentoo on it.
Everything works just perfectly!
_NO_ problems with nvidia stuff (as mentioned otherwise by alex).
At start there was some trouble because of PCIX... but that got resolved.
For the rest... the only thing you currently have to live with, is that there
is no 64bit flash plugin...
So you gotta use a 32bit firefox + flash
But that's not too disturbing :-).
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regards,
Georges Toth
1:10 p.m.
On Friday 20 May 2005 13:29, Pascal Steichen wrote:
Hi all,
My PC (an old Athlon 500Mhz) is getting really old and i'm looking to get
a brand new AMD64 (yes i'm an AMD guy ...).
So i'd just like to know if some of you out there have experiences,
issues, with such machines,
I have some experience about these, as we have two of them at the LGL
(running SuSE 9.2), my sister's laptop (SuSE 9.2) and my own (SuSE
9.3).
heard that the driver support is not very good
yet.
There is no issue with drivers as long as they are open
source. However, if you've got win-hardware, with closed-source
drivers, you'll have problems, as those will only be available as 32
bit objects in most cases (one notable happy exception: NVidia).
While you can run 32 bit application on top of a 64 bit kernel, the
same is not true about kernel modules which drivers are.
I ran into that problem while trying to set up the Winmodem and the 3D
ATI drivers on my sister's laptop.
As well as were here in Lxuembourg I can get such a
machine for a
good price. Thanks in advance.
The two LGL machine have been baught at Briga in Esch (Romain Gaasch's
shop), my sister's laptop is from lapxpress (www.lapxpress.de) in
Germany, and my own has been bought used (but previous owner bought it
at Auchan (with Windows, alas!)).
Oh, yes one last thing I will probably install a
Gentoo or Ubuntu system,
so any more specific issues with these are welcome, too ;)
ciao,
pst
Alain
7:01 p.m.
Pascal Steichen wrote:
Oh, yes one last thing I will probably install a
Gentoo or Ubuntu system,
so any more specific issues with these are welcome, too ;)
This might be of interest for Gentoo => http://lwn.net/Articles/114992/
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