SATA OK? (and other questions for a new system

[Walter Dnes]

  I mentioned, before the list died, that my main computer had died.  I
got a new system.  AMDK8 3000+ on a Triton, 2 gigs of RAM, with ATI
Radeon X300 card.  This message is coming from it.  I chickened out and
installed only 32-bit Gentoo.  Apparently, the AMD64 Gentoo install
manual is out-of-date, and most of the compatability problems they
mention have been solved.  But since I've got a work system, I'm not
going to start all over again.

On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 08:10:29PM -0400, Evan Leibovitch wrote

> 3) What are the pros and cons of using Serial ATA drives as opposed
>    to good old ATA-133 drives?

  "New and improved"; bigger and faster.  Couple of things that scared
me cause I wasn't looking...

  a) I couldn't find /dev/hda ... because it was /dev/sda (dohhhh).
     Make sure you enable SCSI.

  b) my initial kernel build wouldn't boot properly and had a mysterious
     error message.  I booted from the Gentoo install CD, and noted that
     it was running the "nv" low-level SCSI driver.  Put that into the
     kernel and it booted up fine.

> 4) Would the use of PCI Express for the video instead of AGP cause me grief?

  No 3-D acceleration support yet in Xorg.

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