naconda White Out - no install

[Gene C.]

On Saturday 24 January 2004 07:11, Pete Bradbury wrote:
> Setup
> AMD64 fx-51
> asus sk8n-404
> 1 gig RAM
> 80gig ide
> Viewsonic vp211b tft
> ATI Radeon 9800 pro 256mb

OK, my setup is:

Opteron 140
ASUS SK8N
2 GB ram
120GB ide
Dell Fp2000 (digital)
ATI Radeon 9100

I have test1 (and previously preview) up and running just fine.  A couple of 
points however:

1.  I had to connect the Dell flat panel display directly to the DVI-D 
connection rather than though my Belkin KVM.  The ASUS bios does some strange 
things and I would get nothing displayed via the switched D-SUB connection.

2. The gcc compiler as distributed (-5) has a bug where the compiler loops.  
There is an upstream patch available (see bugzilla) which is also 
incorporated into gcc -6.  However, gcc -6 from rawhide/development also 
needs the rawhide glibc and that was too much to chew right now so I rebuilt 
my own copy of gcc with the patch applied.

3.  I am getting Oops 002 every so often (see bugzilla).

4. I am NOT running acpi=off ... maybe I should try it with the Oops I am 
getting ... they do not occur often and the system does not crash when they 
do occur.

5.  There are not enough i386 compatibility libraries installed to run very 
much and trying to add libraries after the install is a real challenge.

6.  The ethernet NIC on the motherboard is not automatically recognized ... 
you need manually specify sk98lin.

7.  On the whole it runs pretty good ... I am pleased.  However, I do wish 
that a lot i386 updates (both kinds) would be built for x86_64.
-- 
Gene