On 26 Dec 2005 11:57:49 +0000, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > > * Have you got a mobo that worked out of the box and without a major > driver hassle?
I have ASUS mobo with dual Opteron, 1 SCSI disk, 1 SATA disk, Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet (onboard). I did not have any drive hassle, but I have to add "acpi=off noapic" to boot it (i.e. "linux acpi=off noapic" command to install FC4). I also tried to install SUSE-10 but it failed. The 32 bit FC4 installed without the "noapic" but the Ethernet did not work and the screen worked poorly. I did not try the sound device (this is a server). > * Will I be better off with Intel-based systems given my requirements? > CPU performance is not really critical for me, 64-bit Intel systems > seem to sell cheaper than low-end Athlon64's, possibly at the > expense of some performance, the mobos I've been offered have Intel > GPUs and Realtek NICs that seem to be better supported - is this > impression an illusion? I did not have any problems at all with dual Xeon 64 bits (but it has Intel mobo with SCSI disks and Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet) Ehud. -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /"\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7966-667 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ GnuPG: 98EA398D <http://www.keyserver.net/> Better Safe Than Sorry ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
