Darrell Shively <sused@mucus.com> writes:
Hi Janis:
Yeouch! I'm running 9.0 on an s2885 w/dual SATA drives. Are you saying that this is lost moving to 9.1?
Now I'm in double jeopardy - my video is nvidia and I need the 3D acceleration. :-(
Would someone from suse please give an official position on this? Should I scrap my upgrade plans or just defer them until there is a solution?
Well, I can't give an "official" position, but as a comment from one that has a Tyan-2885 based Workstation (we call our system CELSIUS V810) I can tell the following things. 1. SATA is supported in SuSE 9.1. I tried with 4 SATA drives and while SuSE 9.0 is crashing here (looks like SuSE 9.0 can't handle more than 2 drives) the 9.1 with Kernel 2.6 is working fine. All SATA drives are treated like SCSI drives, that means you adress them with /dev/sd?. 2. nVidia Support is still a problem. The AMD64 driver that you can get from the public nVidia download site (Version 1.0-5332) does not compile on SuSE 9.1. Of course nVidia is aware of that problem and as a OEM partner we could try out the new rel60 drivers that are not yet released for the public, and they are working on SuSE 9.1/Kernel 2.6. So its just a matter of time until those drivers go public. Of course I can't tell for sure if all those applies to the original Tyan 2885 board, but since the controller chips are the same I don't think that in this special issues there is any difference. 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