Le 15.01.2005 17:35:52, tony mancill a écrit :
~ 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 theamd64 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).
There are two wan to manage SATA drives, like IDE or like SCSI, this is part of the help while configuring the kernel. The IDE-like mode is now deprecated (but there si no support for smartmontools yet for SATA drivers..)
There are two drivers for Serial ATA controllers. The main driver, "libata", exists inside the SCSI subsystem and supports most modern SATA controllers.The IDE driver (which you are currently configuring) supports a few first-generation SATA controllers.
So basically, everything works hardware-wise, although there are someproblems 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 knowif 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 Ibe running gcc-3.4 (assuming that desktop folks are probably more interested in sid)? Thanks, tony
Jean-Luc
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