On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 07:08:16 -0700 (PDT) satimis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi folks, > > CPU - AMD Athlon64 X2 AM2 512Kx2 3,800 > Mobo - ASUS M2N-E with onboard NIC, nVidia chipsets > Vedio Card - ASUS EN7600 with nVidia chipsets > > > I have been searching around for a 64 bit OS to run as server. The > OS will be easy to install, rigid and w/o driver problem. In the > last 3 weeks I have been testing 64 bit FreeBSD 6.2, archlinux 0.8, > slamd64 11.0, CentOS 4.4, etc. All of them have nvidia driver > problem, FreeBSD being the worst. > > I'll install X and Xfce-4.2 as desktop. They won't start at boot. > The only reason for me retaining X is for communication via > Internet. I'm not feeling comfortable on running text browse such as > Elinks, etc. Also on Internet browsing the websites complain > requesting me to run GUI browser. > > Please advise will OpenBSD serve my need. TIA > > B.R. > satimis i have a similar setup here serving me as a low energy personal file, email server and misc task machine (i have an Athlon64 AM2 3800+ EE SFF with 35 Watt power drawing maximum, and 2GByte Kingston ECC DDR2 RAM). the first i did was to disable the onboard NIC (nVidia crap) of my ASUS M2NPV-VM and put an intel-based board into that machine. honestly, this was the also last thing i did. the machine runs an amd64 snapshot of 4.1 Beta very happily. HTH, timo
