On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:13:59 -0600, apjaworski@xxxxxxx <apjaworski@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello there, > > I am about to get a new system and I have a couple of simple questions > about hardware compatibility. > > 1. I am thinking about getting an ASUS K8N board with Athlon 64 processor. > Do I have to install FC3 x86_64 or can I install 32bit FC3. If I can do > both, which one is better, especially if I want to compile and run some > 32bit applications. As Jonathan said, you can do both. I have a Gigabyte that had FC3 64bit and I just installed the 32bit FC3. This machine also has FreeBSD 5.3 AMD64. > 2. I am thinking about getting just two SATA HDs. The motherboard has > Sil3114 controller. Will FC3 installer recognize the disks and let me > install the system? I have 3 SATA drives. All are recognized. I have 2 on sata_nv and 1 on sata_sil. > 3. Will I be able to use the Realtek ALC850 audio controller or should I > buy a separate sound card (I was thinking about getting an Audigy card). I haven't tested sound with 32bit FC3 but it does work with 64 bit FC3 and FreeBSD 5.3. Sound is not my thing so I didn't get another sound card. > 4. Similar things with the built-in gigabit LAN. I am not even sure what > that is - it says "Chipset built-in Gigabit MAC with external Marvell PHY > supporting 10/100/1000 BASE-T Ethernet" in the specs. ATM, I use the Marvel gigabit nic. I have not tried the other one as yet. I do know that FC3 64bit set both of them up. I see sk98lin loaded and used and forcedeth loaded. > Any thoughts and other recommendations are welcome. Problems. Mine were minor. I had to manually install grub using grub-install. The grub.conf files were fine. On FC3 64bit, I had problems on firstboot. I had to switch to command line which I prefer. I could only install FC3 32bit by passing noprobe to the boot command line. I currently use this in grub.conf. When I switch from Linux to FreeBSD, I have to power off so that the nic would come up. FC3 32bit was installed last night. I think I might add another gig of ram and another 200GB SATA drive, then reinstall proper. Otherwise everything is peachy. N.Emile... -- Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org) Certified: 75% bastard, 42% of which is tard. http://www.thespark.com/bastardtest
