Johan Nielsen wrote:
Subject: [suse-amd64] POLL: Do you have a positive impression on the 64-bit platform ... plz drop a note on the hardware you use
Originally I thought "Great, there goes the signal-to-noise ratio" but since we're all comparing the size of our tools, I guess I'll throw in my two cents after all: Shuttle XPC SN85G4v2 (Small Form Factor) Athlon64 3200+ CPU nVidia nForce3 150 chipset (Flawless!) 250GB SATA HDD (8MB cache) ATI Radeon 9200 GFX Card 2x512MB DDR400 RAM DVD+/-RW SuSE 9.1 Personal (2.6.8.1 kernel) All in a chassis no bigger than a shoebox! With a dozen years of Unix experience, SuSE has rapidly become my favorite Linux distribution. For starters, I had no problem booting off the SATA drive; I'm not using the soft RAID, just a simple single HDD. Even YaST has managed to sway a dyed-in-the-wool "text file and command line" bigot like myself; "sudo yast sw_single foo-app" makes it almost TOO easy sometimes! The only problems I've had with the machine are: - Radeon drivers lag current kernels. Fie on ATI! - I've also got a Shuttle PN15 802.11g WLAN antenna, which is based on the Prism54 USB chipset. Sadly, Linux support for that driver hasn't been completed yet. :'-( (This is why I track the latest kernels. See above.) - The box runs *HOT!* "sensors" reports that my CPU is 70C!!! I'm wondering if the VAR from whom I bought it may have applied the "Ice Pipe" liquid-cooled heatsink incorrectly. But after 3 months of solid use, I've yet to have any problems with it, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. - I also have a Wacom Graphire graphics tablet which doesn't seem to work. I'm GUESSING the driver isn't 64-bit clean, but I'm not sure. If anybody else has gotten their Wacom graphics tablet to work under SuSE AMD64, please let me know. [Email me; I'll summarize to the list]. -- Dabrien "Dabe" Murphy Sr. Systems Administrator Parabon Computation, Inc. www.parabon.com