Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4237 mails)

[Tom Nielsen <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 05 August 2004 11:51 am, Gerhard den Hollander wrote:
> Sun W1100z ?
> That's a single opteron based box right ?
Correct. I didn't want to spring for the 2100z.
>
> Im running suse 9.1 X86_64 on a dual opteron (metropolis) box as a testbed,
> and it works like a charm.
>
> I had redhat 3 WS ES update 1 on it befpre (as that's what Sun ships it
> wi9th) but that gave me a horror of a time with NFS.
>
> The only thing is that you *must* install the latest NVidia drivers (6106).
> I don't know which ones yast/you picks for you, but the 5xxx serieas
> drivers will lock the ssytem when running 32bit OGL applications
> (quake3 to name just one)
I'm just running standard office stuff on it. I figured rather than making it 
just a test unit, I might as well use it. No games though.
>
> Apart from that, the box will just voom (esp.if you have the FX3000 video
> card ;) )
I'm running the lowest card...NVS280. 

Any problem with Windows XP running on it? Again....for test purposes.

Tom

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