On Saturday 27 November 2004 03:38 pm, Gilligan wrote: > Tried using Mandrake hardware support site and found there are NO certified > video cards for 10.1 x86-64. Real Bummer. > Guess that means 64bit won't run on any computer. :))
Gilligan: It more likely means that the hardware database is less than comprehensive, and stipulating that the card be certified further reduces your chances of a match. Bear in mind that certification requires that a sample be submitted to Mandrake for testing, and this takes time and money. I did some playing around with Mandrake's hardware database. As you probably learned, your card _is_ certified for 9.2 and 10.0, but not 10.1 -- either 32 or 64 bit. That leads me to believe that ATI may eventually have their cards certified for 10.1; perhaps the certification is currently underway. I also ran a search to see if there were any video cards certified for 10.1 x86-64: Nada. OK, sez I, show me everything that is in the database about video cards for 10.1 x86-64 regardless of compatibility status. Zilch. But when I asked the database to show me all video cards by any manufacturer and never mind the status for version 9.2, there were 17 hits -- all of them certified. Conclusions: (1) If it isn't certified, it probably isn't in the database. (2) None of the video card manufacturers have completed certification testing. Whether or not any of them will do so is unknown. -- cmg
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