Guest nishant Posted October 14, 2004 Report Share Posted October 14, 2004 Hi all i have a PC with following conf. AMD Athlon 64: 2800+, M'board MSI K8M800 Chipset • VIA® K8M800 Chipset - AGP v3.0 compliant with 8x transfer mode - Graphic integrated • VIA® VT8237 Chipset - Integrated Faster Ethernet LPC - Integrated Hardware Sound Blaster/Direct Sound AC97 audio - Ultra DMA 66/100/133 master mode PCI EIDE controller - ACPI - Supports 2 Serial ATA ports - Supports 8 USB2.0 ports RAM 256MB DDR segate 80GB SATA disk I've updated bios to V3.2 i want to take advantage of 64 bit processor. I tried fedora core 2 but i could not get my xserver up I tried Mandrake 10.1 - it detects SATA but fails to do modprobe with the inbuild driver Can you suggest me any version of mandrake which is tested with this H/W? thanks Nishant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted October 14, 2004 Report Share Posted October 14, 2004 hi. :) SATA drives can be a bit frustrating but keeping in mind that 10.1 is still in "testing phase", i would probably stick to 10.0 OE or wait till 10.1 OE is available. or is there any other distro that works well with SATA drives? i don't know of one.... yet. :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtaylor57 Posted October 14, 2004 Report Share Posted October 14, 2004 I would go with the "newest" version...Currently it's 10.1, but like mentioned above, it's still in testing phase. I don't know if 10.0 supports 64 bit processors though...Anybody confirm? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted October 14, 2004 Report Share Posted October 14, 2004 there is a mandrake 10.0 oe 64 bit processor version available for download, as far as i know. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nishant Posted October 15, 2004 Report Share Posted October 15, 2004 how would u compare mandrake 10.1 with Ubuntu 4.1. thanks Nishant :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted October 15, 2004 Report Share Posted October 15, 2004 (edited) how would u compare mandrake 10.1 with Ubuntu 4.1.thanks Nishant :unsure: <{POST_SNAPBACK}> totally different. mandrake has e.g. the mandrake control center. in ubuntu (which is a stable debian-unstable), you have only the gnome desktop by default with gnome-tools. you do not have a root account by default but use sudo. root and kde etc. can be installed later anyway. ubuntu is only interesting for you, if you know some stuff about linux already. you need to know some stuff like using the command line. otherwise it can be a bit frustrating, especially when dealing with usb-devices on laptops (i am still working on that thing). but hardware detection is by default excellent and look and feel is very nice. you can give ubuntu a try with a live-cd if you want. and in case you don't have the bandwith to get it, they will ship it to you for free. :) Edited October 15, 2004 by arctic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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