> John,
>
> I would bet he's referring to the bleeding edge hardware thing as a
> whole. For instance, SuSE 9.3 64 bit was a dog and required me to set
> up a custom kernel to fix a double rate clock tick, and pass specia
> boot parameters to the GRUB to allow the broadcom chipset to work 64 bit
> on my Dad's Compaq r4000. It has an Athlon 64 in it with the Radeon
I been running a R4100 for a couple of monthes and the only problems I have to
deal with are the time and the sound. I have to run alsaconf evertime I boot
it.
> based mobo and the 200m chipset. Mucho problems with that ATI hunk of
> _insert_something_derrogatory_. Before SuSE 10 was available, I also
> tried Ubuntu hoary and breezy. Hoary had the same problems as SuSE 9.3
> and the cluster 3 of breezy had volume label issues to the point that it
> wouldn't even find the hard disk after the initial install.
I install opensuse 10 beta 2 because Gentoo 2005.1 suck so bad. I could not
get X running, Craig. I installed Gentoo on a G3 laptop with no problem.
(let the flame wars begin)
> The saving grace was SuSE 10. The kernel choice included in 10 has a
> massive pile of 64 bit improvements. It installed perfectly. No
> problems. No funky kernel options. Although _no-one_ can get DRI and
> that stupid ATI 200m working right without having to disable the
> dedicated 128mb "sideport" video RAM in lieu of shared video RAM in 64
> bit mode. That's ATI's fault though. Bug in the Linux driver.
I have not heard of this.
>
> You have to admit that inherently Linux takes a bit to figure out new
> hardware. At the same time, the faster kernel development (over 2.4
> k's) has led to quicker hardware compatibility.
>
The only other pain bit was getting the broadcom wireless to work. I used the
Gentoo to get the Windoze drives ndiswrapper made it less painful
>
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