From: michael_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il
Date: Sat 14 Jan 2006 - 01:02:21 IST
Thanks for the excellent report, Oleg. Can I ask you where you purchased
the system, and roughly how much it cost?
Thanks,
Michael
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> Oleg Goldshmidt <pub_at_goldshmidt.org> writes:
>
>> Rather than reading more reviews of different mobos and getting more
>> and more worried, I would love to hear about experiences and
>> suggestions.
>
> OK, thanks to everybody who responded to my query, and it's time for a
> short report on my experiences with the new computer.
>
> I got an AMD Toledo 3800+, dual core 64 bit, and ABIT KN8 Ultra-9 mobo
> (nVidia chipset), a PCIE GeForce 6600, on-board nVidia CK804 Serial
> ATA, Ethernet, USB.
>
> Fedora Core 4 installed from CDs without a hitch, but after a short
> while I found out that for some reason the computer started
> hanging. Notably, this happened a lot while yum was downloading the
> updates. I saw "nv_stop_tx: TransmitterStatus remained busy" messages
> from the forcedeth driver in the logs, though I am not sure whether
> the driver was responsible for hangs.
>
> There were no oopses, just total freeze, no response from either
> keyboard or mouse, nothing helped but powercycle. Looked like a
> deadlock to me.
>
> All this with the stock FC4 2.6.11-smp x86_64 kernel that is installed
> from the CDs. I did not investigate this for too long, after upgrading
> to 2.6.14 and then to 2.6.15 kernels from FC4 updates the problem went
> away, and so far the computer has been working flawlessly.
>
> One exception: Macromedia's flashplayer does not have a 64bit version,
> at least I didn't find one. I fooled the installer to recognize x86_64
> as a valid architecture, and installation succeeded, but it does not
> work. Any suggestions welcome. Please keep discussions of the lessons
> regarding vendor lock-in, closed source, and such off this list. I
> suppose that installing 32-bit versions of the various browsers will
> help, but I am not willing to do it just for the pleasure of having
> flash.
>
> The only other funny thing that I found out concerned a USB keyboard
> (actually, wireless keyboard and mouse): the default BIOS
> configuration has USB keyboard disabled, which leads to a bit of a
> bootstrapping problem. Luckily, I have half a dozen PS/2 keyboards
> lying around, so after plugging one of them and enabling USB keyboard
> in the BIOS everything was fine. I did chuckle in the process, though.
>
> One other thing that is not related directly to my system, but a
> tidbit I discovered while shopping. Just something I am curious
> about. The newest LCD monitors (e.g. from Samsung - SyncMaster 960BF
> 19'') come without any controls whatsoever - all the controls are in
> software. Only Windows software is supplied. Question: does anyone
> know how it is supposed to work on non-Windows (and non-Mac) systems?
> The assumption apparently is that the monitor will work (for some
> definition of the word) without the software - otherwise how can one
> install it?
>
> --
> Oleg Goldshmidt | pub_at_NOSPAM.goldshmidt.org | http://www.goldshmidt.org
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