Will Suse 9.1 support the new Nforce 250GB?
I know it is really early in the game, and I am likely asking a lot of this mailing list for a first posting. I have decided, after running windows free for the last couple of months to buy the next release of SUSE. So I put in an order for 9.1 Professional. I had already planned to rebuild/build a new computer at the time based on this release, running a Via chipset, but the new Nvidia chipset looks promising. So, I guess it boiled down to this... will the new SUSE 9.1 support the features (gigabit LAN, integrated SATA, etc.) the boards will be offering. Yes, I know the new kernel supports SATA, withe the on-board promise controller, but will it support Nvidia's integrated SATA? Should I just stick with a VIA chipset and be happy? Thanks for any who take the time to answer this for me, an admittedly brief search of the archive has not revealed any answers. Lance Nichols
So, I guess it boiled down to this... will the new SUSE 9.1 support the features (gigabit LAN, integrated SATA, etc.) the boards will be offering. Yes, I know the new kernel supports SATA, withe the on-board promise controller, but will it support Nvidia's integrated SATA?
The nvidia SATA is not a real SATA controller, but just an older IDE controller with an SATA bridge. The old IDE driver works fine on these. -Andi
I'm running SuSE 9.0 on x86_64. The following steps were used to get the bug: 1) Download a typical GNU package that uses libtool: libsigc++-1.25 or gtkmm_2.2.4 both work. 2) cd to the working directory of the GNU package. 3) ./configure --prefix=/usr/local 4) make Results in multiply defined symbol error, which I think is due to something in the libtool file. But if you run configure as: linux32 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local then it all works (but still compiles a 64-bit binary, of course). Has anyone run into this kind of problem before? Is this a problem in SuSE or in the GNU libtool stuff? Is anyone on this mailing list interested in a more detailed write-up? Thanks, -- Bob
Thanks Andi, I had not heard that. Wonder why in the heck they would implement a bridge controller when working on new silicon? Would it be so they could keep an ATA controller integrated into the system? I wonder how much of a performance hit the bridge adds to SATA transactions? One of the interesting implementations on the new chipset is the firmware based firewall, and I would like to see if that will be integrated into the kernel. Do you now if/which module supports the gigabit LAN controller? Lance On Friday 30 April 2004 22:14, Andi Kleen wrote:
So, I guess it boiled down to this... will the new SUSE 9.1 support the features (gigabit LAN, integrated SATA, etc.) the boards will be offering. Yes, I know the new kernel supports SATA, withe the on-board promise controller, but will it support Nvidia's integrated SATA?
The nvidia SATA is not a real SATA controller, but just an older IDE controller with an SATA bridge. The old IDE driver works fine on these.
-Andi
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