On Wednesday 21 January 2004 15:04, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
Andreas Huennebeck <ah@bruker.de> writes:
I'm planning to buy a new PC which should have a (soft)raid 1 disk system and a sensible 2D graphics card without fan. Due to its speed and the cool'n quiet option I got an offer about a PC with Asus K8VD, AMD64 3200+, two Maxtor Sata disks, a Plextor Premium CD-writer and an MSI GF4-MX440 graphics card. [..] - The graphics card is not supported. In fact, searching on the SuSE hardware database for graphicscard with full or partial support on SuSE 9.0 AMD64 lists not one single card! This shurely is no satisfying state.
Just ignore the database for AMD64... I expect that the graphics card works...
Ok. I can still loook for another card with garanteed support. Any hints for good 2D card with analog out and DVI out and no fans and a source driver?
So what should I do?
- Use the standard 32Bit SuSE9, will this support the hardware listed above? - Use an EIDE softraid instead of Sata? This solution needs an additional EIDE controller as a softraid needs both channels and then there is no channel left for the CD-writer.
Wait a week, I'm currently testing an update CD with support for the VIA SATA controller and will announce it here...
Great. Waiting one week is no problem, I want to buy the PC end of march anyway (will then be cheaper anyway ;-). I'm currently in the evaluation stage ...
[..] Are there any chances that a new SuSE 9.1 distribution might be available which solves these problems?
SUSE Linux 9.1 should contain support for the VIA controller,
Very good. Any chance that you disclose the date when SuSE 9.1 for AMD64 shall be released? ;-) Thanks again Andreas -- Andreas Hünnebeck | email: ah@despammed.com ----- privat ---- | www : http://www.huennebeck-online.de Fax/Anrufbeantworter: 0721/151-284301 o. 0180/50525-5232659 (24 Pfg/Min) SMS: D1=72617 D2=0172/7366-042 E-Plus=0177/7934-396 Viag=0179/2029-894 GPG-Key: http://www.huennebeck-online.de/public_keys/andreas.asc PGP-Key: http://www.huennebeck-online.de/public_keys/pgp_andreas.asc