AMD has admitted that the Athlon doesn't work well with AGP video cards.
psycho wrote:
> how about geForce - detect ? new athlon box here .
>
> Patrick Goetz wrote:
>
> > I just finished installing Beta-3. 3 immediate comments:
> >
> > 1. I noticed that amd was installed by default (as evidenced by the fact
> > that I couldn't log in because my home directory couldn't be found ;-)).
> > I'm pretty sure most people are now using autofs, which is newer, cleaner,
> > and actively maintained. In any case, at the very least the installer
> > should be given a choice between amd and autofs.
> >
> > 2.
> > I'm not entirely satisfied with the granularity of choosing packages. For
> > example, nowhere was I given the option of not installing TeX, as far as I
> > can tell. (Of course I want TeX, but I think a lot of junk I don't want
> > was installed anyway.) 1.3 gigabytes! What hath linux come to?
> >
> > 3.
> > Is there any way not to get kde? kde and gnome are 2 terrible mistakes
> > IMHO. I chose expert installation and tried very hard not to get any
> > gnome or kde junk. Still, when I run startx, I end up looking at the kde
> > desktop. :(p
> >
> > ************************************************************************
> > PEOPLE NOT CLEAR ON THE CONCEPT (OR TECHNOLOGY, OR HISTORY, OR
> > ECONOMICS, OR CULTURAL LITERACY) DEPT.:
> > "Well, it seems to me we ought to be encouraged that in the year 1000,
> > they had to add a new digit, and yet no evidence of economic disruption.
> > And then a millennium before, we had dates going down, and then they
> > started going up, and yet no evidence of disruption or chaos in the
> > economy. So if they could do it then, surely we can deal with it now,
> > it seems to me."
> > -- Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, chairman Senate Banking Committee
> > ************************************************************************
> > _ Patrick Goetz
> > _| ~-. Dept. of Mathematics
> > \, *_} The University of Texas at Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > \( Austin, Texas 78712-1084 Phone: (512) 232-2746
> > http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/pgoetz
