Motherboard Report: Asus AV8-Deluxe (K8T800Pro)
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~ I had a very smooth install using the sid-amd64-netinst.iso. In fact,
this is the first time I can recall installing Debian and not having to
muck around with any drivers whatsoever to have the system come up with
Ethernet, USB _and_ sound on from the install image. Many thanks to the
amd64 team for making this so easy.
The AV8-DX is a single 939 motherboard; I'm running a 90nm Athlon 3500+
("Winchester" core). It's first time I've owned a SATA drive, but that
came up right away (curious that it's identified as SCSI, but oh well).
So basically, everything works hardware-wise, although there are some
problems that are preventing me from running box as my primary desktop.
The box is very fast when it can focus on a single task (e.g. MP3 encoding
a 4 minute audio track with lame at 256 bits takes about 15 seconds). But
if you get it busy doing something else, performance drops off badly - in
fact it's far below that of the dual 1GHz PIII system I'm migrating from.
I'm currently running pure64 w/Debian's 2.6.10 kernel. Does anyone know
if this setup might pay a high penalty for context switches?
Since I'm completely new to this and would like to help out some with the
port, I'd appreciate some advice on where to focus my attention. Should I
be running gcc-3.4 (assuming that desktop folks are probably more
interested in sid)?
Thanks,
tony
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~ tony@mancill.com | After all is said and done,
http://www.debian.org | a heck of a lot more is said than done.
~ | (fortune)
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