[gentoo-user] Thinking about buying an AMD64, after some advice

2005-02-08 Thread bluebird_zenith
G'day All; I'm in the process of buying a new PC and I'm thinking of going with an AMD64, but it's been about 6 years since my last hardware purchase :-) so a bit of friendly advice is most welcome. This is what I'm thinking of getting... AMD64 3.0Ghz CPU Epox 8KDA3J Motherboard Liteon DVD+-RW SO

Re: [gentoo-user] Thinking about buying an AMD64, after some advice

2005-02-09 Thread bluebird_zenith
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 09:40:13AM -0500, Trey Gruel wrote: > On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 17:57:26 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > AMD64 3.0Ghz CPU > > > unless you plan on waiting for a while, you're not going to be getting > a 3ghz cpu from amd. the fastest the have out ri

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 questions: frame buffer, dma

2005-02-09 Thread bluebird_zenith
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:49:04PM +0100, pat wrote: > Hi All, > > Finally I save time to finish skeleton of my Gentoo, it's nice :-) I > have questions: > 1) where I have to enable DMA access to hdd ??? (using reiserfs) emerge hdparm (it might allready be installed) then add some thing like hd

[gentoo-user] Thanks to all who replied [ was Thinking about buying an AMD64, after some advice ]

2005-02-09 Thread bluebird_zenith
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 08:00:23PM -0500, Jerry McBride wrote: > On Wednesday 09 February 2005 01:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > G'day All; > > Joel... depending on what you are upgrading from... your new machine will > probably blow your socks off... As for the sata hardware, I've no pract

Re: [gentoo-user] Thanks to all who replied [ was Thinking about buying an AMD64, after some advice ]

2005-02-09 Thread bluebird_zenith
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 02:16:11AM +, Qian Qiao wrote: > On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:11:57 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 08:00:23PM -0500, Jerry McBride wrote: > > > On Wednesday 09 February 2005 01:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > G'day All

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 questions: frame buffer, dma

2005-02-11 Thread bluebird_zenith
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 02:38:21PM +, Shaun Lipscombe wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > /etc/lilo.conf depends on how you boot) > > > > for exmample adding > > > > vga=0x317 > > > I thought you couldn't use hex in the lilo/grub confs but had to use the > decimal representation or