Hi I'd say go for an Athlon. If it's a bit too expensive, go for a Duron. www.tomshardware.com has some good processor benchmarks and information. My setup is a 1GHz Athlon on an Abit KT7 m/board... wors well and havnt had any problems... Andrew :o) -----Original Message----- From: Donald G. Knecht [SMTP:msspal@gbso.net] Sent: 05 January 2001 04:05 To: 'suse-linux-e@suse.com' Subject: [SLE] new system advise hey i see this question asked a lot but since i wasn't doing an upgrade at the time i really didn't pay much attention, i need to build a new i386 home office workstation, OS of course would be SuSE-Linux, now what to buy? i use a p200 currently, and usually do most of my work in staroffice, gimp, and netscrap,(no apache, servers or networking for that matter) the first two get really slow, gimp, usually when a lot of images are open or really big, staroffice just seems to be slow always.....i currently have a voodoo3 and 128mb ram which has helped, but now i can afford a faster processor/system. advise, thoughts, and ideas welcome specifically, what are the pros/cons of Athlon, Duron vs. Celeron, Pentium II, III TIA, don -- proud Linux user since kernel 1.1.54 icq#42235604 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
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I'd say go for an Athlon. If it's a bit too expensive, go for a Duron. www.tomshardware.com has some good processor benchmarks and information. My setup is a 1GHz Athlon on an Abit KT7 m/board... wors well and havnt had any problems...
Andrew :o)
hey, finally got the new system.....i settled on a 1ghz t-bird on a tyan Trinity-KT mb, got a few problems.... 1). i'm trying to change the cpu optimization in the kernel and whenever i build a new kernel boot fails with a "panic" about not being able to mount the root partition..... it says to try "root=" append and that it can't find 03:00 so i tried at boot:linux root=/dev/hda3 and it panic 'ed in the same place also complaining that it couldn't open "hda3" i have reiserfs on this partition, the (yast) installed pentium optimized kernel boots fine. 2). same old problems with sound....yast2,and alsaconf won't set up my cheap sb pci 128 card (es1371) i sent install support a letter on that one..... 3). looks like i might have wasted money on an ATI all-in-wonder, ......from what i've been able to find, it looks like the tv tuner isn't supported.....anyone know different?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Donald G. Knecht" <msspal@gbso.net> To: "Andrew Smith" <andrew@andrewsmith.plus.com> Cc: <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 1:01 AM Subject: Re: [SLE] new system advise
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<some stuff snipped> 3). looks like i might have wasted money on an ATI all-in-wonder, ......from what i've been able to find, it looks like the tv tuner isn't supported.....anyone know different? Hi Donald
You may have some luck with the TV on your ATI card if you try searching for "gatos" on freshmeat. HTH Brian
thanks! looks like that might work...... i'll have to install xfree-4.0.2 first then give it a try... -don Brian Stevenson wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Donald G. Knecht" <msspal@gbso.net> To: "Andrew Smith" <andrew@andrewsmith.plus.com> Cc: <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 1:01 AM Subject: Re: [SLE] new system advise
Andrew Smith wrote:
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<some stuff snipped> 3). looks like i might have wasted money on an ATI all-in-wonder, ......from what i've been able to find, it looks like the tv tuner isn't supported.....anyone know different? Hi Donald
You may have some luck with the TV on your ATI card if you try searching for "gatos" on freshmeat.
HTH
Brian
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Installing XFree 4.02 is a breeze, if you use yast and then install from there updates site. Its under X, then Xfree86. I cannot remember the fully qualified path to it though. Matt On Friday 26 January 2001 08:38 pm, Donald G. Knecht wrote:
thanks! looks like that might work...... i'll have to install xfree-4.0.2 first then give it a try...
-don
Brian Stevenson wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Donald G. Knecht" <msspal@gbso.net> To: "Andrew Smith" <andrew@andrewsmith.plus.com> Cc: <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 1:01 AM Subject: Re: [SLE] new system advise
Andrew Smith wrote:
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3). looks like i might have wasted money on an ATI all-in-wonder, ......from what i've been able to find, it looks like the tv tuner isn't supported.....anyone know different?
Hi Donald
You may have some luck with the TV on your ATI card if you try searching for "gatos" on freshmeat.
HTH
Brian
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On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 20:01:09 -0500 "Donald G. Knecht" <msspal@gbso.net> wrote:
hey, finally got the new system.....i settled on a 1ghz t-bird on a tyan Trinity-KT mb, got a few problems.... 3). looks like i might have wasted money on an ATI all-in-wonder, ......from what i've been able to find, it looks like the tv tuner isn't supported.....anyone know different?
Depends of what kind of All-in-Wonder card you have. Take a look at LiViD <www.linuxvideo.org> and especially head to GATOS' project. I use it to watch TV and video output from various sources on my All-in-Wonder 128 16Mb with this soft and it works great. Regards... -- Jean-François Bocquet <tns01@free.fr> ================================+ http://tns01.free.fr | =================================+ ··· proud Linux User #177410| -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK------ +------------------------------------+ Version: 3.12 Comment: For info see http://www.geekcode.com GCS/S d-- s:+ a- C++ UL+>++ P+ L+++>++++ E W++ N+ o+ K- !w O? M? V? PS PE- Y+ PGP+ t+ 5? X++ R tv++ b+ DI- D+ G e+ h! r-- y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
* Donald G. Knecht (msspal@gbso.net) [20010128 01:59]:
i'm trying to change the cpu optimization in the kernel and whenever i build a new kernel boot fails with a "panic" about not being able to mount the root partition..... it says to try "root=" append and that it can't find 03:00 so i tried at boot:linux root=/dev/hda3 and it panic 'ed in the same place also complaining that it couldn't open "hda3" i have reiserfs on this partition, the (yast) installed pentium optimized kernel boots fine.
Seems like you forgot some config options. Af the pentium optimized kernel boots fine, change to /usr/src/linux after having booted and enter 'make cloneconfig'. This will create a kernel configuration matching that of the running kernel. After having done so, fire up 'make menuconfig' and change the configuration to match your needs. BEWARE - for cloneconfig to work as expected, the kernel source has to match the running kernel!
same old problems with sound....yast2,and alsaconf won't set up my cheap sb pci 128 card (es1371) i sent install support a letter on that one.....
Strange, that's exactly the card I have in my machine at work and had no problems with up till now. What I'd do would be to save the part of /etc/modules.conf marked as ALSA setup to another file, then delete that part and then retry with alsaconf. If that doesn't work, put these lines into your modules.conf and it should work: ---------------->8 cut 8<-------------------------- alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-card-ens1371 alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 snd_device_mode=0660 snd_device_gid=17 snd_device_uid=0 options snd-card-ens1371 snd_index=0 snd_id=SB_128PCI ---------------->8 cut 8<-------------------------- Of course you should first remove all other ALSA-Stuff from modules.conf Philipp -- Philipp Thomas <pthomas@suse.de> Development, SuSE GmbH, Schanzaecker Str. 10, D-90443 Nuremberg, Germany Penguins shall save the dinosaurs -- Handelsblatt about Linux on S/390
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