Thanks Erich. What nVidia card do you use on your S2885? So I assume you recommend I upgrade the Tyan's BIOS to the latest version? Regards, ________________________________________ Ricardo R Palma SYNOPSIS SA Telef. (+51 1) 275-4941 / 275-4708 / 275-7523 email : rrpalma@synopsis.ws www.synopsis.ws -----Erich Boleyn wrote: ----- To: Kevin_Gassiot@veritasdgc.com From: Erich Boleyn Date: 01/24/2005 06:39PM cc: rrpalma@synopsis.ws, Ken Siersma , suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] AMD64 / Tyan S2885 and NVidia 6800 Ultra Kevin_Gassiot@veritasdgc.com wrote:

The power supplies in these machines are 550W

I can't give you any real definitive answer on 9.2, as I have just

started

to try it out. However, everytime I have tried upgrading my BIOS, I run

into problems that make me drop back to v1.02 until I can get some time to

just work on this machine steadily to try and figure things out ...

I've also got some font issues on 9.2 (even on the 32-bit version on a

Pentium4), possibly due to the move from XFree86 to Xorg in 9.2 ? I just

can't make the jump yet, until several little issues get worked out so that

my workstation will be usable on 9.2....

Hmm... I was just reading this thread. I have a Tyan 2885 (Thunder K8W) and 2882 (Thunder K8S Pro), with with 2 processors each, and at different times run with 4GB, 6GB, and 8GB. BIOS versions: -- Tyan 2885 required version 2.02 before the kernels and NVidia drivers just worked out of box. Earlier Suse Pro 9 kernels don't work with 1.X BIOSes and lots of RAM due to MTRR mapping problems. -- Tyan 2882 has always worked but I had at least the 2.02 version of it's BIOS (which is different from the Tyan 2885's versions BTW). With the caveat that for newer kernels I've been disabling the USB controller because of the memory conflict issue (I haven't tried to see if it works on current kernels, too lazy ;-), I have run (all 64-bit versions): -- Suse Pro 9 (should use at least the -193 service pack kernel), 9.1 (unpatched version would eventually crash with an X issue), and 9.2. -- Some SLES 8 & 9. SLES 8 worked in general but I wouldn't trust the unpatched compilers from SLES 8, I had problems with them. -- Fedora Core 2 and Fedora Core 3. All with various kernel update versions. The "current" update versions for all the above as of a month or so ago were working OK except not even trying to use SLES 8 anymore since it was so early in the 64-bit Linux cycle. I work with a lot of different versions at work at AMD and recreationally at home. On the 2885 I have an NVidia card and have been using the NVidia drivers with few problems. The current drivers solved any I'd had. YMMV. -- Erich Stefan Boleyn http://www.uruk.org/ "Reality is truly stranger than fiction; Probably why fiction is so popular"