David Relson schrieb: > Well, I've done it this time :-< > > It seemed time to upgrade from my AthlonXP so I bought a new motherboard > (ASUS M2A-VM HDMI), cpu (AMD 64 X2 5000), and memory (2GB DDR2 800). > With all the new hardware, my hopes were high!! > > Then I removed the old mobo/cpu/ram from this workstation and installed > the new and things weren't as rosy as I'd hoped :-< > > Problem 1 - ethernet controller. The Realtek 8168 didn't seem to have > a linux driver compatible with my 2.6.22 kernel. Not a big deal as I > could use my old ethernet card and solve the problem later. > > Problem 2 - video. The ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 seems to have only > minimal support (VGA - 640x480x8) using the latest drivers in > portage, i.e. ati-drivers-8.40.4. I figured I could get at least > 1024x768 using generic ATI support (with better resolution in the > future when up-to-date drivers are available).
vesa should provide higher resolutions (or do you need wide screen? I've got no experiences with that.) > > Problem 3 - really low hard drive performance. I presume it's just > tweaking that can be done after (if?) the video problem can be > corrected. I don't see how video affects hdd performance. Playing around with hdparm could indeed make solving your other problems a bit more comfortable. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
