Is there any way to use the Windows drivers in the recompile process?
On Oct 20, 5:18 pm, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Suse isnt bad as a distro, not my first choice but it isnt bad at all.
>
> That is a pretty top o the line rig, you may have to literally roll your
> own via Gentoo or similar to enable support for the various bits which
> arent widely distributed enough to warrant everyone having drivers.
>
> tlowe wrote:
> > Hey Folks,
>
> > I'm trying to find a distribution that will play nicely with my Tyan
> > VX50 machine (8 quad-core AMD 8000, 128gb ram) (S4985-E).
> > I've tried Ubuntu 8.04 server which does not recognize the hardware
> > raid.
> > OpenSUSE 11 petered out on installing the boot loader (as did Ubuntu).
>
> > What OS do people use on machines such as these?
> > Tyan docs state that RHEL4 & 5 are supported (excluding hardware RAID)
> > and SUSE9.3 - 10.1 (without hardware RAID support also).
> > Windows is fully supported. Go figure...
>
> > I don't really want to switch from Ubuntu 8.04. The machine came with
> > Windows support drivers, but none for Linux.
>
> > Any advice (possibly on how to roll my own)?
>
> > Thanks.
> > -Tripp
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