Fedora Test 1 x86_64 on ASUS K8V Report

Brian Stretch bstretch at mindspring.com
Tue Jan 20 04:26:32 UTC 2004


OS: Fedora Test 1 x86_64, burned to DVD-RW
Hardware: ASUS K8V Deluxe, GeForceFX 5700 Ultra

It mostly works.  I was able to get networking working as
described in this Bugzilla entry:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=111127
except I had to add... hmm, the compile flag the error message
when the module tried to load suggested.  Darn, I didn't write it
down.  I presume that 3Com is being cranky about including their
driver in the kernel tree? 

nVidia's x86-64 driver on their website probably would have
worked after I added Option "NvAgp" "1" to XF86Config but its
too old to recognize my FX5700 and quits.  The nVidia logo flashed
briefly.  Setting the driver to "vesa" worked. 

I remembered to do export CC=gcc32 before compiling the above
drivers, natch. 

For some reason the icons aren't loading in X?  I may have messed
something up when I put together the DVD image.  Anyone have 
any ideas? 

If I'm reading /var/log/dmesg right, Fedora is confused by my
HP PSC 2410's memory card reader.  It's trying to read a card
but I don't have one loaded.  It appears to be a harmless problem
though. 

Fedora also seems cranky about my SATA RAID stripe on the
Promise controller.  Also harmless, just clutters up dmesg a bit. 
Looks like the driver is crashing.  
I picked up an IDE HD to use with Fedora.  Hitting F8 while booting
allows me to manually select which device to boot from, necessary
since I have to write grub to the IDE drive and not my SATA RAID. 

I haven't tried 32-bit Fedora on this hardware yet.  I did reserve a
partition on the new IDE HD to try that though. 

Is AMD Cool & Quiet supported?  I got it working in WinXP, had
to update to BIOS 1004 first so the drivers would load.  

Anyone try Fedora with the new eMachines M6805 Athlon 64 notebook
yet?  They just got them at my local Best Buy.  Circuit City carries
that and the M6807 (adds a DVD burner).  Seriously drool-worthy. 
I can't come up with an excuse to buy a notebook for myself though. 

Well, that's enough homework avoidance for now.  G'night all...





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