"Dave Reid" <davereid@telusplanet.net> writes:
I'm rather amazed at the emails on this list that I found that helped explain why the SUSE 9.0 for AMD64 won't load, No Serial ATA Support for the VIA chipset (or any chipset for that matter). What a crushing appointment, I built this machine specfically to use SUSE 9.0 for AMD 64, and yes I bought modern hardware like a serial ATA drive. If Linux cannot support the current hardware generation it will continue to remain
Unless HW vendors develop drivers themselves or take care that their brand new hardware works everywhere and not only on Windows, we will always have this problem. The situation is much better than 5 years ago but there's still a difference in support by most vendors. So, brand new hardware is always at risk.
marginalized on the desktop bigtime. So when can I expect Serial ATA support (I will not go to last generation hardware) or did I just waste my money on this thing? So much for the easy installation, what a joke.
We plan to release a new kernel this month with Serial ATA support for the VIA chipset. But making this available so that you can install on your system takes some tricks. I'll check whether this is possible after my vacation. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126