Hi everybody! I am planing to buy a new desktop which will most probably be an amd64 system (e.g. www.deutschlandpc.de). I am listening to the list since quite a time to get an impression what the status of the 64bit Suse is for a "normal" user. Questions: 1. Most systems I saw do have an ATI graphic driver, which are not supported in 64 bit, right? What does that mean? No X? 2. I have a AVM Fritz! DSL card, is this one supported in 9.2? 3. Would it be better for a desktop to install the 32 bit version, because hw support is more complete? Thanx Raimund
Raimund Dold <raimunddold@web.de> writes:
Hi everybody!
I am planing to buy a new desktop which will most probably be an amd64 system (e.g. www.deutschlandpc.de). I am listening to the list since quite a time to get an impression what the status of the 64bit Suse is for a "normal" user.
Questions: 1. Most systems I saw do have an ATI graphic driver, which are not supported in 64 bit, right? What does that mean? No X?
No 3D acceleration. 2D graphics works fine.
2. I have a AVM Fritz! DSL card, is this one supported in 9.2?
I hope ;-)
3. Would it be better for a desktop to install the 32 bit version, because hw support is more complete?
You can easily installa 32-bit package, just go into the installer to the package and install the 32-bit version. Since both are in the same box, I would say: Try the 64-bit version first ;-) Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 04:23:35PM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
Raimund Dold <raimunddold@web.de> writes:
Hi everybody!
I am planing to buy a new desktop which will most probably be an amd64 system (e.g. www.deutschlandpc.de). I am listening to the list since quite a time to get an impression what the status of the 64bit Suse is for a "normal" user.
Questions: 1. Most systems I saw do have an ATI graphic driver, which are not supported in 64 bit, right? What does that mean? No X?
No 3D acceleration. 2D graphics works fine.
Actually you get 3d acceleration with many older ATI Radeon 7xxx and some 9xxx boards (everything supported by the free ATI DRM driver) But the latest'n'greatest isn't supported for 3d so far, only 2d. -Andi
On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 16:23, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
You can easily installa 32-bit package, just go into the installer to the package and install the 32-bit version.
For some of the packages there is no -32bit version, eg: mysql-shared. On my x86_64 machine I wanted to run some 32bits programs linked to the 32bit versions of the mysql libraires, and I ended up copying the libraries from an x86 machine by hand. Is there any other solution? Laurent
Questions: 1. Most systems I saw do have an ATI graphic driver, which are not supported in 64 bit, right? What does that mean? No X?
I think a bit of market feedback would be appropriate - ask them to swap the graphics card to something that _is_ supported for the only OS unleashes the AMD64. ATI won't pull finger unless it starts costing sales. I wish I'd known that before I bought mine, and they kindly upgraded me to an ATI. 3D non-existent, but it's also slow writing in Open Office, which I presume is driven by its 2D performance. Sue
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