Re: [CentOS] 1333/8GB Intel motherboard for C5.1

2008-05-25 Thread Karanbir Singh
MHR wrote: Perhaps I was not clear in my original email, the point being that you dont need to rebuild drivers when kernels update ( in 99% of the cases ) Is that now true also of the nvidia driver(s)? I haven't seen anything so to indicate. The nvidia driver, for me, built against

Re: [CentOS] 1333/8GB Intel motherboard for C5.1

2008-05-22 Thread Karanbir Singh
Shawn wrote: Realtek drivers can be found in the CentOS wiki: http://wiki.centos.org/HardwareList#head-851e245f4f537add3de9c3c6a6d686771fb01bfa Sweet thanks. Now I know about dkms-enabled driver package which rebuilds the driver automatically for each kernel upgrade! ofcouse, you dont

Re: [CentOS] 1333/8GB Intel motherboard for C5.1

2008-05-22 Thread Farkas Levente
Karanbir Singh wrote: Shawn wrote: Realtek drivers can be found in the CentOS wiki: http://wiki.centos.org/HardwareList#head-851e245f4f537add3de9c3c6a6d686771fb01bfa Sweet thanks. Now I know about dkms-enabled driver package which rebuilds the driver automatically for each kernel

Re: [CentOS] 1333/8GB Intel motherboard for C5.1

2008-05-22 Thread Karanbir Singh
Farkas Levente wrote: Sweet thanks. Now I know about dkms-enabled driver package which rebuilds the driver automatically for each kernel upgrade! ofcouse, you dont need that on CentOS :D rhel 5.2 contains updated drivers. so as centos 5.2 will be release these problems will vanish. Perhaps

Re: [CentOS] 1333/8GB Intel motherboard for C5.1

2008-05-22 Thread MHR
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps I was not clear in my original email, the point being that you dont need to rebuild drivers when kernels update ( in 99% of the cases ) Is that now true also of the nvidia driver(s)? I haven't seen anything so to

Re: [CentOS] 1333/8GB Intel motherboard for C5.1

2008-05-21 Thread Linux
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 3:59 AM, Nicholas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems like it is the way Intel chips are designed. One solution would be to ensure that 64bit is used. However, due to cost I am sure many would have gone for the 32bit machines with AHCI mode. Well, 64bit is the solution to

Re: [CentOS] 1333/8GB Intel motherboard for C5.1

2008-05-21 Thread Shawn
Realtek drivers can be found in the CentOS wiki: http://wiki.centos.org/HardwareList#head-851e245f4f537add3de9c3c6a6d686771fb01bfa Sweet thanks. Now I know about dkms-enabled driver package which rebuilds the driver automatically for each kernel upgrade! Shawn

[CentOS] 1333/8GB Intel motherboard for C5.1

2008-05-20 Thread Drew Weaver
Hi there, has anyone run into any Desktop/Workstation Intel brand motherboards that work with CentOS 5.1 (4.6/3.9 out of box compatibility is a very large plus) and work with the 1333MHZ cpus such as the 8400/9450 and accept 8GB of RAM? The closest we've found so far is the

Re: [CentOS] 1333/8GB Intel motherboard for C5.1

2008-05-20 Thread Nicholas
Drew Weaver wrote: Hi there, has anyone run into any Desktop/Workstation Intel brand motherboards that work with CentOS 5.1 (4.6/3.9 out of box compatibility is a very large plus) and work with the 1333MHZ cpus such as the 8400/9450 and accept 8GB of RAM? The closest we’ve found so far is

Re: [CentOS] 1333/8GB Intel motherboard for C5.1

2008-05-20 Thread Linux
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Nicholas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Typically Linux hackers can hack the kernel to use very large RAM. Current applications are built to access up to 4Gb RAM at a time only. For machines with RAM of more than 4Gb you need to verify that the CPU comes with

Re: [CentOS] 1333/8GB Intel motherboard for C5.1

2008-05-20 Thread John R Pierce
Linux wrote: You are missing the point about the bug in some Intel chipsets. http://www.google.com/search?q=intel+chipset+kernel+4gb or the lack of support in 5.1 for ICH9 in non-AHCI mode which means the OS won't even install, never mind 4GB+ memory issues. so, really there's four

Re: [CentOS] 1333/8GB Intel motherboard for C5.1

2008-05-20 Thread Ralph Angenendt
John R Pierce wrote: C) 32bit systems with 4GB memory require PAE support both in the CPU and in the operating system... /all/ Intel CPUs since about Pentium Pro have this. (At least) The first Pentium M generation doesn't support PAE. Ralph pgp6YRK27Sx0o.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [CentOS] 1333/8GB Intel motherboard for C5.1

2008-05-20 Thread John R Pierce
Ralph Angenendt wrote: John R Pierce wrote: C) 32bit systems with 4GB memory require PAE support both in the CPU and in the operating system... /all/ Intel CPUs since about Pentium Pro have this. (At least) The first Pentium M generation doesn't support PAE. I should have

Re: [CentOS] 1333/8GB Intel motherboard for C5.1

2008-05-20 Thread Nicholas
your 'bug' is issue A).I think its more a design feature or side effect, not an outright bug, but thats a nomenclature thing. Seems like it is the way Intel chips are designed. One solution would be to ensure that 64bit is used. However, due to cost I am sure many would have gone

Re: [CentOS] 1333/8GB Intel motherboard for C5.1

2008-05-20 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Nicholas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the Realtek drive maybe you can try using http://sourceforge.net/projects/realtekr1000 Realtek drivers can be found in the CentOS wiki: http://wiki.centos.org/HardwareList#head-851e245f4f537add3de9c3c6a6d686771fb01bfa