Hi Ricardo rrpalma@synopsis.ws writes:
Thanks for your input Rainer.
From a complete neophyte trying to build his own AMD DP machine:
1. Did SuSE 9.1 work out of the box with SATA? Or you had to do something special? Are you using RAID 0?
SuSE 9.1 uses the sata_sil driver and the version supplied with it works fine with all 4 drives connected to the SiI 3114 SATA controller. Well, actually I don't use RAID and if I remember correctly SuSE detects that there is a RAID capability but recommends the use of Linux software RAID instead of "proprietary" RAID drivers. After "having a lot of fun" with an old Promise RAID controller that refused to work with new hard disks I really understand and support this advice. :-)
2. What do you mean by "nVidia Support is still a problem."? As per a recommendation I got in this forum, I was planning on getting an GeForce FX 5950 Ultra. Will this work? What I mean is, will I be able to at least have it recognized by SuSE and get decent graphics? (even I don't get all the features)?
Well, I checked the public nvidia Website again 5 minutes ago, there is still the 1.0-5332 driver that won't run on SuSE 9.1. But as I told you there are new drivers in nVidias release queue, its only a matter of time until they are going public. And this morning I read on the Debian-AMD64 list that there is a page with patches for the old driver. Look here: http://minion.de/nvidia.html Maybe this helps you to get the thing running on kernel 2.6 even without the new nVidia drivers.
3. Since you have it working, who do you recommend I get the memory from (ie, brand)? --- I need 2 Gb
Well, the machine I'm using here is equipped with RAM modules from Samsung. Anyway, you should see your mainboard manual if there is some recommondation of the manufacturer. On our own machines we have a department that does extensive memory testing and they "release" modules for our mainboards. And this information is also going to the customer so that he knows what he has to buy. HTH Rainer -- Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rainer Koenig Project Manager Linux Fujitsu-Siemens VP BC E SW OS Phone: +49-821-804-3321 Fax: +49-821-804-2131