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Bootdisks not working on K6? Not sure what you're referring to.

I use a K6 myself, and have installed all versions of Suse since 5.1 on it without trouble.

Looking in the SuSE support database, I see the following two articles: Faulty processor AMD K6-2 with 100Mhz system clock and AMD K6 with more than 32MB - system hangs .

The former seems to be an acknowledged flaw in the k6 processor which can be replaced under warrantee. The latter is less clear but also seems an acknowledged AMD bug (see the article).

The other issue, of course, was the Athlon, which did not boot with the 6.2 floppy images, as the MTRR support we built into said floppies in this past summer did not work on the Athlons. I'm sure if AMD had sent samples to the SuSE offices, this would not have occured, but a athlon boot floppy image promptly appeared on the FTP site after the problem was described. A simple call to SuSE support would have gotten a floppy mailed to you if you have no way to download it yourself.

Or did I miss the issue you were talking about? SuSE can only fix problems they know about. feedback@suse.de is your friend.

Bootdisks not working on K6? Not sure what you're referring to.

I use a K6 myself, and have installed all versions of Suse since 5.1 on it without trouble.

Looking in the SuSE support database, I see the following two articles: Faulty processor AMD K6-2 with 100Mhz system clock and AMD K6 with more than 32MB - system hangs .

The former seems to be an acknowledged flaw in the k6 processor which can be replaced under warrantee. The latter is less clear but also seems an acknowledged AMD bug (see the article).

The other issue, of course, was the Athlon, which did not boot with the 6.2 floppy images, as the MTRR support we built into said floppies in this past summer did not work on the Athlons. I'm sure if AMD had sent samples to the SuSE offices, this would not have occured, but a athlon boot floppy image promptly appeared on the FTP site after the problem was described. A simple call to SuSE support would have gotten a floppy mailed to you if you have no way to download it yourself.

Or did I miss the issue you were talking about? SuSE can only fix problems they know about. feedback@suse.de is your friend.

Bootdisks not working on K6? Not sure what you're referring to.

I use a K6 myself, and have installed all versions of Suse since 5.1 on it without trouble.

Looking in the SuSE support database, I see the following two articles: Faulty processor AMD K6-2 with 100Mhz system clock and AMD K6 with more than 32MB - system hangs .

The former seems to be an acknowledged flaw in the k6 processor which can be replaced under warrantee. The latter is less clear but also seems an acknowledged AMD bug (see the article).

The other issue, of course, was the Athlon, which did not boot with the 6.2 floppy images, as the MTRR support we built into said floppies in this past summer did not work on the Athlons. I'm sure if AMD had sent samples to the SuSE offices, this would not have occured, but a athlon boot floppy image promptly appeared on the FTP site after the problem was described. A simple call to SuSE support would have gotten a floppy mailed to you if you have no way to download it yourself.

Or did I miss the issue you were talking about? SuSE can only fix problems they know about. feedback@suse.de is your friend.

Bootdisks not working on K6? Not sure what you're referring to.

I use a K6 myself, and have installed all versions of Suse since 5.1 on it without trouble.

Looking in the SuSE support database, I see the following two articles: Faulty processor AMD K6-2 with 100Mhz system clock and AMD K6 with more than 32MB - system hangs .

The former seems to be an acknowledged flaw in the k6 processor which can be replaced under warrantee. The latter is less clear but also seems an acknowledged AMD bug (see the article).

The other issue, of course, was the Athlon, which did not boot with the 6.2 floppy images, as the MTRR support we built into said floppies in this past summer did not work on the Athlons. I'm sure if AMD had sent samples to the SuSE offices, this would not have occured, but a athlon boot floppy image promptly appeared on the FTP site after the problem was described. A simple call to SuSE support would have gotten a floppy mailed to you if you have no way to download it yourself.

Or did I miss the issue you were talking about? SuSE can only fix problems they know about. feedback@suse.de is your friend.

SuSE Linux AG, Europe's leading Linux distributor, [...]

Since when is SuSE a stock cooperation (AG)? Have I missed their IPO? Last time I checked, SuSE has been a private limited company (GmbH) and it still says so on their homepage. (Not that I'd have the money to make some major investment, though ...)

SuSE
or at
Bentley

It was no problem for me to get it. And it is really faster than the Windows version... :)

A XFCom X server for Linux is available for the single Rage 128 at Suse. I believe it will probably mainline in the next version of the XFree86 server, it seems quite stable. This should mean that most of the information for the dual processor version is already known, so hopefully a driver will follow quickly.

If you mean DRI and GL support, that's coming in version XFree86 v4.0, which hasn't announced a release date. The next snapshot, 3.9.17 should be available mid-month according to the XFree86 page.

actually, there are instructions on SuSE's site on configuring their XFCom servers. The link also includes links to tarballs and .rpm's of said servers..

have fun :)

I know. (Note: I submit patches occasionally and maintain the FreeBSD port, cf the FAQ) :-)

When it officially ships as a GLX driver, I honestly think it will make Linux look good.

I am quite sure the Matrox and eventually the nvidia hardware device driver will stay, the rest (like the GLX implemention) might be replaced by sources from SGI. We might eventually have to wait until XFree86 4, before Precision Insight puts all cards on the table and evaluation starts. When I remember correctly, they announced support for a whole bunch of cards, but were not willing to reveal which ones.

In fact SuSE does some 3d work too. Their scheme for MLX looks quite sophisticated (look here) but I don't know what is going on there right now. MLX was announced together with support for GLINT and Permedia chips.

Alas the only ones I noticed being active lately were the openprojects GLX group and the PI folks. That is why I said I doubt that the new SuSE drivers feature 3d.

Check out http://www.suse.de/XSuSE/XSuSE_E.html they have a i386 binary driver for the rage128.. RPM format.. supposedly works with RH and Mandrake (6.0, 6.1 respectively)

Dirk

PI is working with the Xfree86 team on a hardware accelerated GLX module for Xfree 4.0. The support wasn't in the pre-release 3.9.15 but they said that it would be in an upcoming pre-release. The stuff that suse is working on is called MLX and it hasn't been updated in months but it still works(sorta, full screen only) on my Diamond FireGL 1000 pro.

PI is working with the Xfree86 team on a hardware accelerated GLX module for Xfree 4.0. The support wasn't in the pre-release 3.9.15 but they said that it would be in an upcoming pre-release. The stuff that suse is working on is called MLX and it hasn't been updated in months but it still works(sorta, full screen only) on my Diamond FireGL 1000 pro.

It's here.

How could you dare to think there is something that's not on the SUSE CDs ;^)

BTW, SuSE has hired the main ALSA developer and hosts the project homepage.
So I guess they will be the driving force behind ALSA in the future...

Of course, this is (AFAIK) quite possibly the best Linux distro ever, since it contains some really cool software right there on the CD. Darn, that's a nice feeling! Hm, time to switch out my 3-year old patchwork Slackware? Naah... ;^)

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ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/6.1/
SuSE's FTP server in Germany (SuSE 6.1)

Otherwise look at http://www.suse.de/e/ftp.html for mirrors, etc.

Enjoy. :-)

Ye Olde Webdesigner

There are various ISDN Howtos in the support database, I picked out the right ones for your SuSE Version:

English version

German version

There are various ISDN Howtos in the support database, I picked out the right ones for your SuSE Version:

English version

German version

Fortunately, SuSE is the best Linux distribution when it comes to built-in ISDN support. You need to install the i4l packet (at least) and configure your card using yast - I tried this once and it worked immediately. That should be even easy for beginners (I'm used to i4b on FreeBSD/NetBSD systems which I'd consider expert-only).

And please use the SuSE support database which probably contains answers for your questions:

German and English search

Fortunately, SuSE is the best Linux distribution when it comes to built-in ISDN support. You need to install the i4l packet (at least) and configure your card using yast - I tried this once and it worked immediately. That should be even easy for beginners (I'm used to i4b on FreeBSD/NetBSD systems which I'd consider expert-only).

And please use the SuSE support database which probably contains answers for your questions:

German and English search

SuSE will be distributing Civ::CTP in europe.

See the SuSE web site for details
of your nearest reseller who should have stock
shortly after June 1st.

For UK folks, I will have stocks within 4 days
of June 1st.

Jason Clifford Consulting

Voodoo (you know where to get it)

Rigth now there are two companies which has pledged their alligance to Linux and given specs to their 3d/2d hardware.

Matrox G200 - OpenSource project.
lists.openprojects.net/mail man/listinfo/g200-dev

3dlabs Permdai2 - See link above and Simon's page on Suse

In other news, 3dlabs said they would be giving full specs to permedia3 for developers. This includes both 2d and 3d specs. Currently both pm2 and matrox g200 can play q3a with hardware acceleation.
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I don't know the details of the TNT2 release. My best guess is that they have SGI OpenGL as a base. That means they'll be releasing binary only.

That's not particularly bad. There is room to have more than one OpenGL implementation. In fact, there are already three (Mesa, XiG, MetroLink).

The biggest problem is that OpenGL provides and API and not an ABI. That means programs can be recompiled against different OpenGL libraries and work, but compiling against one library doesn't insure compatability with another. No one wants that to be a problem, because we don't want different versions of applications to be required. I've been talking with vendors and suggesting that Mesa be made a reference platform. The advantage of that is that everyone gets it for free and we all agree on interface difference. Mostly this hasn't been a major issue in my testing so far, but it has come up. It also helps that we have some common benchmarking programs that we can all use to test.

That takes care of the commercial side of the discussion, now lets look at the free software side of the problem.

Mesa is the OpenGL layer. It currently has a hardware layer known as DD for lack of a better term. The current 3dfx support for Mesa goes through that interface. SUSE has worked on extending that to something they call ACL. See http://www.suse.de/~sim for more information. People are also adding multithread support and optimizations to the core of Mesa

GLX provides and interface layer between an X server and OpenGL. It also allows remote OpenGL applications to communicate with a local server. SGI made GLX open source.

Precision Insight took GLX and Mesa and rolled that into the XFree 4.0 tree. So, minimally all XFree 4.0 servers will have the capability of doing software OpenGL. This will become a new "assumption" about a Linux workstation which is great.

There is parallel work going on between SUSE and PI at the moment. Simon from SUSE, is working on a hardware interface layer (generic PCI) and an integration layer (MLX).

Finally Precision Insight is working on the DRI, direct rendering infrastructure. This allows applications outside the X server to talk straight to the hardware. Here's Q&A you can read.

My work on Glide for Rush (and now Banshee/V3) needs something like the DRI. My first solution was a bit of hack (called the Rush extension) and was an X server extension. Switching to the DRI should standardize things further.

I hope this clears things up. I'm extremely pleased to see all the progress. Having nVidia release an OpenGL is fine as long as it interacts well with applications compiled against Mesa. I'm fairly sure it will since they want Q3 to work!

- |Daryll

Eric,

SuSE actually has the most hardcore information online of
any of the distributors. Problem is it's in German. Luckely
I can read German (highschool classes were not a complete
waste on me) and it's a wealth of information that is not
available elsewhere. Check out
this
to see what I mean.

About the small contrib section: There just isn't an awful lot to
contribute to the 5 stuffed CDs! It's simply a consequence of
the completeness of the suse distro.

If SuSE hired more English translators then they would
seriously kick butt. Same goes for the German magazine
c't too, if they made an English edition it would sell like mad.