Compatable hardware for SuSE 9.0 AMD64 version
Hello, I looked in this groups archives, and did not find much discussions yet about the athlon64 and athlon64 FX51, so I hope I'm not off topic here. I have SuSE 9.0 Professional AMD64 version, and looking wich hardware will work the best with this software. (I try to avoid "difficult components" when I still can) I checked the SuSE hardware compatability list, but this list is completely empty as far as "SuSE 9.0 Professional AMD64" compatability is concerned. I asked the SuSE helpdesk, but there answer is: "Our research and development department has some Opteron (pre-production series directly from AMD) systems and I don't expect that we will buy new hardware anywere soon. So I could only point you to the experience of other users" Are there some of you out there, running this stable? What hardware do you use? I was looking at: - For the Athlon64, Motherboard: Asus K8V or MSI K8T Neo-FIS2R. - For the Athlon64 FX51, Motherboard: Asus SK8V or MSI K8T Master2 FAR. All boards have the VIA K8T800 Chipset and VIA VT8237 Southbridge. (Don't need any features on the motherboard, the less, the better --which is difficult to get) Does anybody know if this AMD64 version is picky about memory modules? - Harddisk controller: Don't think the S-ATA controllers on these boards are supported; will the P-ATA controler work? Maybe an addional affordable SCSI controller? - Graphics card: nVIDIA Geforce FX 5900 (from ASUS) Anybody experience with any of this? I would greatly appreciate all sugestions. If I'm in the wrong list, please let me know. Emile
"Emile van Mierlo" <geeko@xs4all.nl> writes:
Hello,
I looked in this groups archives, and did not find much discussions yet about the athlon64 and athlon64 FX51, so I hope I'm not off topic here.
I have SuSE 9.0 Professional AMD64 version, and looking wich hardware will work the best with this software. (I try to avoid "difficult components" when I still can)
I checked the SuSE hardware compatability list, but this list is completely empty as far as "SuSE 9.0 Professional AMD64" compatability is concerned.
Unfortunatly yes.
I asked the SuSE helpdesk, but there answer is:
"Our research and development department has some Opteron (pre-production series directly from AMD) systems and I don't expect that we will buy new hardware anywere soon. So I could only point you to the experience of other users"
Are there some of you out there, running this stable? What hardware do you use?
I was looking at: - For the Athlon64, Motherboard: Asus K8V or MSI K8T Neo-FIS2R. - For the Athlon64 FX51, Motherboard: Asus SK8V or MSI K8T Master2 FAR. All boards have the VIA K8T800 Chipset and VIA VT8237 Southbridge.
The Via chipset should work, but I don't have tested any of those boards above. Note that Serial ATA will not work!
(Don't need any features on the motherboard, the less, the better --which is difficult to get) Does anybody know if this AMD64 version is picky about memory modules?
As long as they work ;-)
- Harddisk controller: Don't think the S-ATA controllers on these boards are supported; will the P-ATA controler work? Maybe an addional affordable SCSI controller?
P-ATA works fine, for S-ATA there's no working driver right now. SCSI drivers do work, e.g. we've tested most (all?) of the Adaptec ones.
- Graphics card: nVIDIA Geforce FX 5900 (from ASUS)
Should work with 2D out of the box for 3d you need the binary only driver from nvidia.
Anybody experience with any of this? I would greatly appreciate all sugestions.
If I'm in the wrong list, please let me know.
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 17:17 schrieb Emile van Mierlo:
I have SuSE 9.0 Professional AMD64 version, and looking wich hardware will work the best with this software. (I try to avoid "difficult components" when I still can)
I can say you have no probs with the AMD8131 chipset Motherboards. I've installed the SuSE 9.0 2 days ago on 'Tyan Tiger K8W (S2875) dual Opteron' with Adaptec SCSI, Plextor 708 DVD, NikkonScanner and so on. SuSE 9.0amd64 runs nearly alone in that machine :-( Greets to Andreas J. and other SuSE workers who worked on 9.0amd64.
- Graphics card: nVIDIA Geforce FX 5900 (from ASUS)
I've just used NVidea5200 Gravic's on Asus and Abit Graphic C., that works fine but full supported with NVidea-Drivers. Look that Howto: "ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/ nvidia-gfx-AMD64-HOWTO" The TyanTiger is aviable with single or dual CPU-socket. Rev. 1.02 is out, with Chipset and Powerdiod-cooling such on TyanThunder K8W ( S2885) Powerconnector EPS or ATX possible. S-ATA and Raid function: S-ATA-HD's arrived tomorrow here than I can try. PS: afk SuSE and AMD worked together for the AMD8000 series chipset support for amd64 SLES and -9.0, so it's a good choise to take a board with them. Tyan, I-will and some MSI boards have them. I have used several Printers, CD-RW's,... and I think most hardware who runs on 9.0 32bit does it on 64bit, too. -- Ciao Marco, registered GNU/Linux-User#313353
- Harddisk controller: Don't think the S-ATA controllers on these boards are supported; will the P-ATA controler work? Maybe an addional affordable SCSI controller?
SATA will likely not work at the moment. PATA should work on VIA.
- Graphics card: nVIDIA Geforce FX 5900 (from ASUS)
When you use the nvidia binary driver you have to get the source based version and change the Makefile to pass -mno-red-zone to the compilation of the kernel module. With that change it works on 9.0 -Andi
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