I have a DS20 with two 500Mhz cpus. I originally
tried the latest 2.4 SMP release but found it wouldn't run for long, it would
hang up. The 2.4 generic release worked OK, though I did have problems with the
NICs. It had two Compaq NC3123s installed (these are the Intel based
82559 cards). I replaced them with a Linksys LNE100TX and it's been working fine. I also swapped
out the Qlogic scsi cards and replaced them with a Adaptec AHA-2940U card
because there was some thought that the Qlogic was causing SMP problems.
Although the Adaptec card works fine, SMP still doesn't. I'm now running Linux
debian 2.6.12-1-alpha-generic since 2.6 SMP doesn't even boot, hopefully this
will be fixed one day.
> Dear
sirs. > > Some years ago, i used to be a big
Alpha fan (Collector maybe), getting > to own several 21064 and 21164
based machines. I gave up on the hobby, > but have been offered a nice
DS20 in a small cabinet (E model) > lately that i could use as a second
machine at home. > > Unfortunately, i am very unaware of the state
of "desktop computing" on > the alpha. > Should I dust off my SRM
handbook and go for it ? > > BTW, i could use some advice on decent
video adaptors that work on the > Alpha, > I remember hunting down
a PCI Radeon back in 2002 (long gone) , > and getting DRI
going after a lengthy fight with gcc optimisations > that produced
broken code .... > > Regards > Roberto de Iriarte. >
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