Installation of SUSE 9.0 AMD 64 Version on latest motherboards
Hi Can anyone who has tried, please tell me if any of the latest motherboards provide an 'out of the box' install of SUSE 9.0 AMD-64 without the need for kernel patching. Particularly looking at the MSI, Gigabye and Asus boards, running nVidia and VIA chipsets. I'm tending to lean towards the VIA chipset boards (K8T800), so any guidance would be appreciated. Regards Graeme This e-mail transmission is intended for the named addressee only. Its contents are private and confidential and should not be read, copied, disclosed or distributed to or by any other person. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately by e-mail or telephone (0141 585 6363), delete the contents of this transmission, destroy any copies made and no action should be taken which places reliance on its contents. Copyright Hanon Solutions Limited. All rights reserved. No part of this communication may be reproduced without the prior written permission of Hanon Solutions Limited.
"Graeme Docherty"
Hi
Can anyone who has tried, please tell me if any of the latest motherboards provide an 'out of the box' install of SUSE 9.0 AMD-64 without the need for kernel patching. Particularly looking at the MSI, Gigabye and Asus boards, running nVidia and VIA chipsets. I'm tending to lean towards the VIA chipset boards (K8T800), so any guidance would be appreciated.
We have tested successfully the Asus S8KN, Gigabyte K8N NXP and MSI 6702 and MSI 9131 boards at SuSE and those worked fine (not that Serial-ATA is not supported). The K8T800 chips should work also, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, 90429 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
Am Mittwoch, 5. November 2003 16:44 schrieb Graeme Docherty:
Can anyone who has tried, please tell me if any of the latest motherboards provide an 'out of the box' install of SUSE 9.0 AMD-64 without the need for kernel patching. Particularly looking at the MSI, Gigabye and Asus boards, running nVidia and VIA chipsets. I'm tending to lean towards the VIA chipset boards (K8T800), so any guidance would be appreciated.
A Suse 9.0 for AMD64 install on a MSI K8T Neo-FISsomething (normal
Athlon64) with 1GB Ram went without any problems. Onboard sound and
lan were recognized properly (drivers via82xx and r8169). None of the
SATA (Via & Promise) controllers are working, so you must use PATA
drives. That aside, the installation was just as easy as on a i386.
Remember 9.0 for AMD64 is distributed on a double sided DVD so you
need a DVD-drive.
Performance as well as stability are good. No problems as yet with
32bit programs/libraries, the only thing to fiddle with was the
installation of a 32bit libdvdcss to view DVDs in xine; I had to
install 32bit xine which then needed 32bit libcurl which I couldn't
install as YaST depends on the 64bit version. I then just copied a
libcurl from a i386 system without installing the package, and now
everything including viewing DVDs works as expected.
--
Michail Brzitwa
Graeme Docherty may (or may not) have said:
Hi
Can anyone who has tried, please tell me if any of the latest motherboards provide an 'out of the box' install of SUSE 9.0 AMD-64 without the need for kernel patching. Particularly looking at the MSI, Gigabye and Asus boards, running nVidia and VIA chipsets. I'm tending to lean towards the VIA chipset boards (K8T800), so any guidance would be appreciated.
Just started a "out of the box" 9.0 install on the following hardware: Tyan K8W (S2885) 2x 242 cpu's 2G ram 180G ATA133 hdd nVidia GeForce FX5950 Pioneer 106D dvd/rw This will work, but I will have to grab the latest kernel to support the AGP chipset and compile up the nvidia drivers for full support of the video card (nvidia provide 64 bit drivers, hence why I went for that card rather than an ATI). Mike PS This is a workstation machine, not server ;)
Mike Phillips
Graeme Docherty may (or may not) have said:
Hi
Can anyone who has tried, please tell me if any of the latest motherboards provide an 'out of the box' install of SUSE 9.0 AMD-64 without the need for kernel patching. Particularly looking at the MSI, Gigabye and Asus boards, running nVidia and VIA chipsets. I'm tending to lean towards the VIA chipset boards (K8T800), so any guidance would be appreciated.
Just started a "out of the box" 9.0 install on the following hardware: Tyan K8W (S2885) 2x 242 cpu's 2G ram 180G ATA133 hdd nVidia GeForce FX5950 Pioneer 106D dvd/rw
This will work, but I will have to grab the latest kernel to support the AGP chipset and compile up the nvidia drivers for full support of the
Yes, you need the -139 kernel from ftp.suse.com/pub/people/aj/Kernel-AMD64/ to support AGP, Andreas
video card (nvidia provide 64 bit drivers, hence why I went for that card rather than an ATI).
Mike PS This is a workstation machine, not server ;)
Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, 90429 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
Yes, you need the -139 kernel from ftp.suse.com/pub/people/aj/Kernel-AMD64/ to support AGP,
to be more precise to support AGP on that Tyan board that has both PCI-X and AGP. Near all other boards work with AGP with the default 9.0 kernel. -Andi
This will work, but I will have to grab the latest kernel to support the AGP chipset and compile up the nvidia drivers for full support of the video card (nvidia provide 64 bit drivers, hence why I went for that card rather than an ATI).
Dont forget to change grab the nvidia "source" kit and change the Makefile to use -mno-red-zone for the kernel module. Otherwise you will see regular crashes with 3d. -Andi
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