Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (299 mails)

[Willibald Krenn <Willibald.Krenn@xxxxxx>]

Am Sonntag, 11. Januar 2004 19:53 schrieben Sie:
>[Sil 3112A + S-ATA ST3120026AS in UDMA)
> And it worked with 2.4? That's a big strange. What driver did you use in
> 2.4?

Don't know what driver SuSE 9.0 uses as default, but I guess it's 
'ataraid' (even if I don't have a RAID setup yet in SIL BIOS)

I'm using the latest SuSE 2.4 kernel (Online-Update), the latest Shuttle BIOS 
(AN50S00Y) and have disabled the CPUFreq package, as Cool'n'Quiet does not 
work properly here. (It's only working with 100MHz as DRAM Frq.)

I've fixed hde to UDMA2 via yast.. (Anything faster won't work and the 'ON' 
value in the Yast dialog will lock the system.)

Only one thing gets a little bit on my 'nerves': My PCI Radeon 9200 SE is not 
recognized by the X-Server and the ATI driver seems to be 32bit only. :-(
(Still hoping that SuSE will provide an update when the next version of XFree 
with Radeon 9200 support comes out)

I also had some issues with - I think - USB (some kernel Ooopses on system 
startup), but after the kernel update and disconnecting the USB plug of my MS 
Natural Keyboard the system is running very well [for a Linux-Box ;-)] with 
the Logitech mouse as sole USB device. 

I've one criticism though: Unfortunately the DVD does not support a menu point 
saying 'Re-Install original Kernel plus bootloader'. I really would have 
needed this at one point, because I completely blew my grub config. 
(2.6.1-rc3 was not booting and somehow I had 'destroyed' the 2.4 backup)
I was badly surprised when I found out that the manual repair dialog did not 
feature a 'Re-Install kernel plus bootloader' option and the automatic repair 
did not work. 
Another note: I had to choose manual installation, as the automatic one leads 
to Ooops(?).

If I had to give SuSE 9.0 AMD64 a mark (1..5 - 'excellent'...'forget it') I 
would probably give it a 3. (Mostly works, but nowhere as unproblematic as it 
should be.)
However, I have to say that I'm deeply impressed by the support in this list!!

So I guess that gives a 2 at last. :-)

Thanks,
  Willi