Tracy R Reed wrote:
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 07:21:31AM -0800, Lewis Wolfgang spake thusly:
How do you like that Opteron? I am seriously thinking about picking one
up. A dual Opteron would be especially sweet. 64 bit, independent memory
banks/channels for up to 16G of RAM... Have you had any problems compiling
Linux apps or anything on it since it is technically a different
architecture? I once compiled openh323 (horrible, don't ever touch it
unless absolutely necessary) on an Athlon 64 and had a hell of a time.
Other than that most things compiled nicely. I would expect the Opteron to
be similar.
Hi Tracy,
I like them! I've integrated three systems so far, with another on
the way. I use SuSE, which has a separate distro just for amd-64.
(they use a dual-layer, dual-sided DVD with amd-64 on one side,
x86 on the other. CD's are also included with the package) The
only problem I had was with compiling mplayer from scratch with GUI. I
tried this in January and it looked solvable, but I didn't have
the time to fiddle with it and just compiled without GUI. My
goal is to get kino, dvread, transcode, etc all compiled and
working to pull video from mini-dv tapes, edit, then convert to
DIVX. News at 11:00.
I've been using Tyan mobos with Matrox G550 frame buffers, but I
was noticing frame buffer type problems. It seemed as if X wasn't using
the accellerated drivers, or something. So just last night I tried
a NVIDIA Quadro (NVS50) and it fixed all my problems! SuSE includes
a hobbled NVIDIA driver on their DVD, but once you're up and running
you can install the full-up driver from SuSE's update site. It
downloaded and installed like snails through a goose, and even turned
on the 3D mode.
If you're curious, the Tyan mobos with SuSE handle SATA disks just
fine. One of the boxes I put together will replace a Sun Enterprise
4000 system with eight-processors. The E-4000 was a fine box, but
the two-banger Opteron literally runs rings around it. I also prefer
Linux to Solaris, but that's another issue...
Regards,
Lew
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