RE: An AMD64 or my (or your) dreams - what to buy?
On Wed 30 Jun Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote:
> What would you suggest to buy as a complete AMD64 machine?
In terms of laptops, I'm using the e-machines M6805, which was about the
only one available back when I got it. There are bugs in its ACPI that
require patches for older kernels, but the 2.6.7 includes them which saves a
lot of hassle. It runs cleanly and I'm happy with it.
$ lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8385 [K8T800 AGP] Host
Bridge (rev 01)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800
South]
0000:00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller
0000:00:0c.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 802.11g (rev
03)
0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
0000:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
0000:00:11.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. Intel 537
[AC97 Modem] (rev 80)
0000:00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II]
(rev 74)
0000:00:13.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host
Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility
Radeon 9600 M10]
Via chipset, avoiding the NVidia problems alluded to elsewhere, seems to
work fine.
The Broadcomm 802.11g of course has no open source driver and is unusable in
64 bit.
The Cardbus works; I'm using various wireless cards in that slot for network
access.
The audio driver works fine for playback but appears to have issues with
full duplex.
The modem is a soft modem, needing the PCTel driver, which I think is 32 bit
only.
I have not tried the firewire but the driver gives no errors.
The video card is supported (without 3D acceleration) in both 32 bit and 64
bit.
To have accelerated 3D, you need the ATI driver which is 32 bit only and is
incompatible with the kernel 2.6.7 for probably trivial reasons ... but I
haven't investigated the issue.
The cpu frequency management works fine in 2.6.7, with a big benefit on
battery life.
Alex.
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