SuSE9.0 works on an IC7-Max3 with a 3.1 GHz OC'd P4
Straight_Man
Geeky, in my own wayNaples, FL Icrontian
I am not using RAID or SATA, but have SuSE 9.0 up. the install took a few interesting twists, but I did not have to due a reinstall or in fact custom compile a kernel.
What I did was this:
The system board and chipset are partly outside the boundaries of the SuSE 9.0 install detect scope (and my MX700 mouse with a PS\2 hookup probably confused that also), but they have a fallback way to load it without rerunning the installer. If you get an install that hangs totally after a video detecvt and you have an NVidia card, you can shut down computer or reboot it, but make sure CD2 is in the drive when you do. CD2 boots, it runs a tiny Minix kernel off of CD2. I was after that, immediately up in KDE 3.1.4 on the HD. At that point, I had set system to boot directly into KDE, so was in GUI.
That left me with a problem, the NVidia .run package normally needs to be installed from console with X not active. However, SuSE has YOU (Yast2 Online Updater). I had the .run pack, so I looked at the information for it. It gave me a link to NVidia's site-- which said that with SUSE you can install that pack in GUI, so I did. Then I got into the adapter and monitor config (in KDE using the GUI SuSE config routines), told it to use nvidia framebuffer instead of the nv 2D only framebuffer. Then I restarted computer. NVidia pack 5336 for linux came up, worked fine. SuSE was on the web also, from the get-go and happily updated itself during install.
The process took three hours, 'cuz I am used to Mandrake console or RedHat more than SuSE, but Mandrake could not autocompile a kernel for this mobo so I used SuSE. Oh, still hunting the SuSE manual, but it handed me video on a silver platter.
Side note, if you change time zones and have a local clock, you will not see the change on clock until after telling KDE to reboot computer. This is an interlinking between KDE and SuSE's underlying layers issue, which Mandrake does NOT have. Storage to HD is faster than with Mandrake, MUCH faster.
Back in XP for the nonce, the P4 is now OC'd to 3.1 GHz and was when I stuck the SuSE install in on a 60 GB BB series WD HD (ReiserFS used). The system worked clean with it, almost zero major issues.
John D.
What I did was this:
The system board and chipset are partly outside the boundaries of the SuSE 9.0 install detect scope (and my MX700 mouse with a PS\2 hookup probably confused that also), but they have a fallback way to load it without rerunning the installer. If you get an install that hangs totally after a video detecvt and you have an NVidia card, you can shut down computer or reboot it, but make sure CD2 is in the drive when you do. CD2 boots, it runs a tiny Minix kernel off of CD2. I was after that, immediately up in KDE 3.1.4 on the HD. At that point, I had set system to boot directly into KDE, so was in GUI.
That left me with a problem, the NVidia .run package normally needs to be installed from console with X not active. However, SuSE has YOU (Yast2 Online Updater). I had the .run pack, so I looked at the information for it. It gave me a link to NVidia's site-- which said that with SUSE you can install that pack in GUI, so I did. Then I got into the adapter and monitor config (in KDE using the GUI SuSE config routines), told it to use nvidia framebuffer instead of the nv 2D only framebuffer. Then I restarted computer. NVidia pack 5336 for linux came up, worked fine. SuSE was on the web also, from the get-go and happily updated itself during install.
The process took three hours, 'cuz I am used to Mandrake console or RedHat more than SuSE, but Mandrake could not autocompile a kernel for this mobo so I used SuSE. Oh, still hunting the SuSE manual, but it handed me video on a silver platter.
Side note, if you change time zones and have a local clock, you will not see the change on clock until after telling KDE to reboot computer. This is an interlinking between KDE and SuSE's underlying layers issue, which Mandrake does NOT have. Storage to HD is faster than with Mandrake, MUCH faster.
Back in XP for the nonce, the P4 is now OC'd to 3.1 GHz and was when I stuck the SuSE install in on a 60 GB BB series WD HD (ReiserFS used). The system worked clean with it, almost zero major issues.
John D.
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