LINUX 64
Emmanuel Mejias
kcmanny at gmail.com
Sat Feb 19 08:09:55 UTC 2005
I'm looking to replace my desktop with the Gateway 7422GX. Here are the specs.
AMD Athlon 64 3400+, 1600MHz system bus with HyperTransport
Technology, 1.0GB PC2700 DDR, 64MB ATI Mobility RADEON 9550/9600,
built-in wireless LAN with 125HMS technology. DVD+ - RW/CD-RW
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 01:59:45 -0600, Jonathan Berry <berryja at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 00:37:56 -0600, Emmanuel Mejias <kcmanny at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Has anyone had or know of any problems installing and running Fedora
> > Core 3 64 bit on the Gateway notebooks with AMD Athlon 64 bit chips???
> > Any feedback would be great as I am looking to purchase this notebook
> > and plan to install FC3 on it.
>
> What kind of hardware? I have a Compaq R3000Z Laptop with Athlon 64
> and FC3 x86_64 works great on it. nVidia graphics card an nForce3
> chipset mboard. A couple of things took a little effort to get
> working (like widescreen, wireless (with 64-bit ndiswrapper now!),
> etc.), but once you get past that initial work, it works great. And
> there are probably people who have done it before who can tell you
> what to do (there were with the R3000), so that makes it easy. What
> kind of config are you looking at? You might check out the R3000 or
> the HP equivalent zv5000. Go with the best bang for your buck. If
> you want 3D, definitely go with an nVidia card if you can. I know it
> works, ATi and 64-bit seems to be a little sketchy, or at least it
> was.
>
> Jonathan
>
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>
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