On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 23:32, Paul C. Leopardi wrote:
Hi Frederic, I have a GigaByte GA-K8NNXP with Athlon 64 3200+. The motherboard uses the nVIDIA nForce3 150 chipset. The RAM is 2 x 512MB GeiL High Performance DDR 400. I'm using an MSI FX5700 TD128 AGP video card, which is an nVIDIA Gforce FX 5700 graphics card.
I don't have SuSE Linux Professional 9.1 yet. It's due to arrive on 15 May. With 9.0, I have had many stability issues, many of which are still unresolved. For a start, I had to update the motherboard bios to F12. XFree86 4.3 does not support my graphics card. On the other hand the nVIDIA 1.0-5332 driver taints the kernel, since it uses a binary-only kernel module. I occasionally get freezes and reboots of the whole system, cause still unknown, though I suspect the nVIDIA kernel module and AMD64, nForce3, AGP, ACPI, APIC, etc. etc. bugs in the kernel.
I'm now running the 2.6.5 kernel to try to incorporate as many AMD64, nForce3 and other fixes as are currently available. See my many posts to this list.
Thanks mate that was really informative. I tend to prefer VIA to nVidia for the chipset and the GeiL memory was right on top of my list. As for tainting the kernel with the nVidia driver for 3D well there's not much choice if you want top notch 3D with Linux unfortunately ;) -- Frederic Soulier <frederic@wallaby.uklinux.net>