New subject: [suse-amd64] Problems with SuSE 9.0: new PC with Sata, (soft)raid, Graphics

21 Jan 2004

      Hi everybody,

I'm planning to buy a new PC which should have a (soft)raid 1 disk system
and a sensible 2D graphics card without fan. Due to its speed and the cool'n
quiet option I got an offer about a PC with Asus K8VD, AMD64 3200+, two
Maxtor Sata disks, a Plextor Premium CD-writer and an MSI GF4-MX440 
graphics card. With this information I started to look for Linux support ( I 
want to stay with SuSE) and was quite shocked when I had to find out that
this combination is very problematic:

- Sata does not work at all, neither with the Via nor with the Promise controller
  on the motherboard.
- The graphics card is not supported. In fact, searching on the SuSE hardware 
  database for graphicscard with full or partial support on SuSE 9.0 AMD64 lists
  not one single card! This shurely is no satisfying state.
  Is this a problem due to binary drivers from the graphics card vendors? If
  yes, are there graphicscards (which you can buy now) which have an open
  source driver?

So what should I do? 

- Use the standard 32Bit SuSE9, will this support the hardware listed above? 
- Use an EIDE softraid instead of Sata? This solution needs an additional
  EIDE controller as a softraid needs both channels and then there is no
  channel left for the CD-writer.
- Use a Pentium P4 instead? Are there any Motherboards where the Sata
  controller is supported? Graphicscards should be no problem then, right?

I can wait until end of march, then I need the new PC. Are there any chances
that a new SuSE 9.1 distribution might be available which solves these problems?

Thanks in advance
Andreas
-- 
Andreas Hünnebeck | email: ah@bruker.de

Problems with SuSE 9.0: new PC with Sata, (soft)raid, Graphics

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