[TriLUG] Suse 10 and Intel 82801

[Dean Price]

Spoken like a programmer,

But Like I mentioned before it is not just SuSE that is acting like this 
it is 4 of the leading distro's.

In this case I think that it would be more beneficial to find out why 
the OS doesn't like the hardware. 64bit hardware is supposed to be 
backward compatible with 32bit OS's, 32bit windows doesn't have any 
problems at all...

Fortunately SuSE has put both 32bit and 64bit on one dual layer dvd and 
makes the choice for you. But what about Joe "Windows" User that gets a 
copy of Ubuntu or FC4 for 32bit and tries to install it on like 
hardware.  Has the Linux community just lost a potential user because 
someone said "Just recompile the software".

Why should he recompile software when it would be so much easier to 
reinstall Windows. I have been using Linux for 5-6 Years but I have not 
abandoned windows completely.

So again if anyone has heard of this kind of behavior with 64bit or SATA 
or the intel 82801 chipset... more likely the culprit is the chipset... 
Please chime in with any kind of assistance..

Thank you,
Dean Price

Scott Lundgren wrote:

>
> On Dec 18, 2005, at 6:56 PM, Dean Price wrote:
>
>> "D" Intel's Dual-Core Proc's, I don't have a problem with reboots.. 
>> in fact it is a solid box... Windows and 64bit Linux works awsome... 
>> I would just rather have the 32 bit OS for video reasons.. Ie wmv's 
>> do not play with out the win32 codec that do not work on 64bit..
>>
>
> May not be too helpful, but a beauty about open source. If the problem 
> you're having is video, is there anything preventing you from 
> recompiling the application?
>
> $0.02,
> SL
>