Building a new computer

[Rick Stevens]

Bruce McDonald wrote:
> Hello Rick
> 
> On 14-Sep-04, you wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>>I do have an AMD64.  I can't recall which motherboard I used, however.
>>I think it's the ASUS K8T-VE, but I won't swear to it.  Let me look when
>>I get home to verify it.  I'm also using an ATI Radeon 9600SE video card
>>The FC2 driver for the on-board 10/100 Marvell card's driver was broken
>>(flooded the syslogs with a meaningless message), so I went with an
>>Intel  PCI gigabit card.  I understand the newer Marvell driver works
>>better but I haven't tried it.
> 
> 
>>From what I have seen in reviews I found today on the ASUS A8V board, the
> implementation of the Marvell onboard NIC is not so good.  It even needs a
> new driver for windows users.
> I was hoping I could regain a PCI slot from a NIC by getting a mobo with one
> built in, maybe not.

The problem is that the card can't find an identifier in one of its
chips.  The new driver is supposed to ignore that missing bit.

>>I put 1GB of RAM on it and installed FC2 (64-bit) on it.  All in all,
>>I've very happy (the bloody thing compiles code like a rocket!)
> 
> 
> I didn't know rockets had compilers...  which one do they use??  LOL

gcc-saturnV, which replaces gcc-atlas.  :-p  Heheheheh!

>>Be warned:  There are a number of Mozilla plugins that won't install on
>>the 64-bit platform (Macromedia FLASH, for example).  They will work
>>fine if you fool the installer by poking stuff into /proc so it looks
>>like an Athlon or i686.  A google search will reveal the method to use.
> 
> 
> Oooooo.  Fun.
> Puts that in list of things to research.

It's kinda silly.  Macromedia should change their installer, since an
x86-64 (the identifier for the AMD64) will happily run the code.

Grrrr!

> Thanks for the info.

You're welcome.
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