Thanks for the tip. I've been scouring the Ubuntu forums like a madman just to look at as many issues as possible before taking the final leap.

I've bookmarked that site and started poking around. Good stuff there!

By the way, my buddy is The Linux Documentation Project

That site is massive. I might have to concentrate on it for a few days just to get my bearings. Thanks Mike.

By the way, my buddy is The Linux Documentation Project

That site is massive. I might have to concentrate on it for a few days just to get my bearings. Thanks Mike.

Your most welcome, I was considering a wget of the entire thing...it is most useful :)


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Yesterday evening my computer decided to give itself a hemispherectomy. The motherboard refuses to dependably recognize or utilize processors in the CPU0 slot. I've tried four different processors in the slot with the same result. Boot failures, freezes during boot, and random lockups. It's running for now in failsafe mode with one processor (CPU1 slot). Time for another motherboard.

I've settled on a Tyan Thunder 2500. I'd appreciate it if anyone who has used this model motherboard would post their experiences with it.

One of these days I'll be able to afford a speedy new multi-GHz system but for now I have to make do with P3s.

OK, the Tyan motherboard and the Corsair memory finally got here. I selected the memory for the fact that it was designed for use with serverworks chipsets. The motherboard is the S1867DLU3AN version. I saw a significant performance increase when I switched from standard PC100 to interleaved PC100 so I'm looking forward to seeing how the interleaved PC133 does. If all goes well I'll have the new install of SuSE 10.1 up and running some time tomorrow.

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OK, the Tyan motherboard and the Corsair memory finally got here. I selected the memory for the fact that it was designed for use with serverworks chipsets. The motherboard is the S1867DLU3AN version. I saw a significant performance increase when I switched from standard PC100 to interleaved PC100 so I'm looking forward to seeing how the interleaved PC133 does. If all goes well I'll have the new install of SuSE 10.1 up and running some time tomorrow.

How did it go?

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OK, the Tyan motherboard and the Corsair memory finally got here. I selected the memory for the fact that it was designed for use with serverworks chipsets. The motherboard is the S1867DLU3AN version. I saw a significant performance increase when I switched from standard PC100 to interleaved PC100 so I'm looking forward to seeing how the interleaved PC133 does. If all goes well I'll have the new install of SuSE 10.1 up and running some time tomorrow.

How did it go?

Two days of fighting with it and it's finally installed. What a nightmare. Worst SuSE install ever. First the kernel module couldn't get my LSI Megaraid Elite 1600 to work (it worked fine with SuSE 10.0 - I'll miss that 18GB raid 10 array). Then there were problems with IRQ assignments of motherboard resources causing the 'detecting hardware' stage of the install (where it configures the video display, sound card, printer port, etc.) to freeze. It's running now but I still have some items to configure manually.

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Two days of fighting with it and it's finally installed. What a nightmare. Worst SuSE install ever. First the kernel module couldn't get my LSI Megaraid Elite 1600 to work (it worked fine with SuSE 10.0 - I'll miss that 18GB raid 10 array). Then there were problems with IRQ assignments of motherboard resources causing the 'detecting hardware' stage of the install (where it configures the video display, sound card, printer port, etc.) to freeze. It's running now but I still have some items to configure manually.

How odd...I didn;t have any problems at all...if you run into troubles pop over on freenode's irc channel.

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OK, the Tyan motherboard and the Corsair memory finally got here. I selected the memory for the fact that it was designed for use with serverworks chipsets. The motherboard is the S1867DLU3AN version. I saw a significant performance increase when I switched from standard PC100 to interleaved PC100 so I'm looking forward to seeing how the interleaved PC133 does. If all goes well I'll have the new install of SuSE 10.1 up and running some time tomorrow.

How did it go?

Two days of fighting with it and it's finally installed. What a nightmare. Worst SuSE install ever. First the kernel module couldn't get my LSI Megaraid Elite 1600 to work (it worked fine with SuSE 10.0 - I'll miss that 18GB raid 10 array). Then there were problems with IRQ assignments of motherboard resources causing the 'detecting hardware' stage of the install (where it configures the video display, sound card, printer port, etc.) to freeze. It's running now but I still have some items to configure manually.

hmm strtange, the only problems i had with the installtion were that A it was painfully slow, 5 hours with ocasional cd changes (i wish i had a dvd writer!)
then it crashed on teh final stage, no worys though it worked fine!

i coudldent get to teh partitioning area wqhich was a blow (i allways use a slackware disk to partition using CFDISK) but i got there in the end,

still locks up on auto detect of printers :( so i have to do taht all manualy)
overall it is much better than windows for locups

most of teh time i jsut ^ + alt + F1 to ttl1 then ps -A
then kill the dead thing (or X if all elce fails)

the only times i cant do taht are when teh kbd loack up, as i havent got a SHH backdor setup yet to kill form!

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hmm strtange, the only problems i had with the installtion were that A it was painfully slow, 5 hours with ocasional cd changes (i wish i had a dvd writer!)
then it crashed on teh final stage, no worys though it worked fine!

i coudldent get to teh partitioning area wqhich was a blow (i allways use a slackware disk to partition using CFDISK) but i got there in the end,

still locks up on auto detect of printers :( so i have to do taht all manualy)
overall it is much better than windows for locups

most of teh time i jsut ^ + alt + F1 to ttl1 then ps -A
then kill the dead thing (or X if all elce fails)

the only times i cant do taht are when teh kbd loack up, as i havent got a SHH backdor setup yet to kill form!

Yep, mine locked up toward the end of install where it detects hardware and saves the configuration. It was during the process of detecting a printer. It also locks up when detecting printer (no printer installed) when I run the Yast Hardware Information application.

The motherboard I'm using is very quirky but I think it'll be great once I get it all figured out.

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hmm strtange, the only problems i had with the installtion were that A it was painfully slow, 5 hours with ocasional cd changes (i wish i had a dvd writer!)
then it crashed on teh final stage, no worys though it worked fine!

i coudldent get to teh partitioning area wqhich was a blow (i allways use a slackware disk to partition using CFDISK) but i got there in the end,

still locks up on auto detect of printers :( so i have to do taht all manualy)
overall it is much better than windows for locups

most of teh time i jsut ^ + alt + F1 to ttl1 then ps -A
then kill the dead thing (or X if all elce fails)

the only times i cant do taht are when teh kbd loack up, as i havent got a SHH backdor setup yet to kill form!

Yep, mine locked up toward the end of install where it detects hardware and saves the configuration. It was during the process of detecting a printer. It also locks up when detecting printer (no printer installed) when I run the Yast Hardware Information application.

The motherboard I'm using is very quirky but I think it'll be great once I get it all figured out.

Follow-up:

I flashed the bios on the motherboard to try and resolve some problems. The flash went fine but unfortunately it led to other problems and the result was a SuSE re-install. The freeze happened again during the 'Hardware Configuration' stage of the SuSE setup process but it's installed and running. One good thing though - my old ATI all-in-wonder radeon 7200's TV tuner is working with XawTV and MoTV (thanks to the gatos drivers that became part of Xorg 6.9/7.0. Now if I can get the Air2PC card working I'll be set.

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Follow-up:

I flashed the bios on the motherboard to try and resolve some problems. The flash went fine but unfortunately it led to other problems and the result was a SuSE re-install. The freeze happened again during the 'Hardware Configuration' stage of the SuSE setup process but it's installed and running. One good thing though - my old ATI all-in-wonder radeon 7200's TV tuner is working with XawTV and MoTV (thanks to the gatos drivers that became part of Xorg 6.9/7.0. Now if I can get the Air2PC card working I'll be set.

You mentioned your printer trouble..still have it?

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Yep, mine locked up toward the end of install where it detects hardware and saves the configuration. It was during the process of detecting a printer. It also locks up when detecting printer (no printer installed) when I run the Yast Hardware Information application.

The motherboard I'm using is very quirky but I think it'll be great once I get it all figured out.

I noticed one of my machines at work today did that when i was installing SuSE 10.1, hmmm, time to hit up freenode and see what the gossip is on it.

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Follow-up:

I flashed the bios on the motherboard to try and resolve some problems. The flash went fine but unfortunately it led to other problems and the result was a SuSE re-install. The freeze happened again during the 'Hardware Configuration' stage of the SuSE setup process but it's installed and running. One good thing though - my old ATI all-in-wonder radeon 7200's TV tuner is working with XawTV and MoTV (thanks to the gatos drivers that became part of Xorg 6.9/7.0. Now if I can get the Air2PC card working I'll be set.

You mentioned your printer trouble..still have it?

The freeze happens during the 'Hardware Configuration' phase - the last step in the install process list. It locks up when it's looking for a printer but there's no printer attached to the computer.

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It locks up when it's looking for a printer but there's no printer attached to the computer.

with me it locks up if there is a ny printer installed or not!

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It locks up when it's looking for a printer but there's no printer attached to the computer.

with me it locks up if there is a ny printer installed or not!

odd, YaST has always been a great install tool...

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odd, YaST has always been a great install tool...

yeh, it was... then they reliced SuSE 10.1 which to be fair is a great OS with everything you really need (except mp3 support)

except they have added so much to the instalation software that it has become so bloted that it tskes an age to load, then often crahes :(

there is
YAST YUM Zen Smart SAX2 and many others,

to save trouble i have been using CLI RPM for simple installs recently, at leaset its stable and reliable even if its not preaty...

once you have disabled the zen auto updater (after geting the updates) then disables the beagle search (a big system HOG)
installed libxine-1 and others and genrally cut out the bloat
then you really have got an operationg system that is easy to use (easier than windoze! in its own way )
stable (cant ever be said for anything made by M$ except whta they stole form others)
and blisteringly fast...

i just wish it installed that way out of the box!

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odd, YaST has always been a great install tool...

yeh, it was... then they reliced SuSE 10.1 which to be fair is a great OS with everything you really need (except mp3 support)

except they have added so much to the instalation software that it has become so bloted that it tskes an age to load, then often crahes :(

there is
YAST YUM Zen Smart SAX2 and many others,

to save trouble i have been using CLI RPM for simple installs recently, at leaset its stable and reliable even if its not preaty...

once you have disabled the zen auto updater (after geting the updates) then disables the beagle search (a big system HOG)
installed libxine-1 and others and genrally cut out the bloat
then you really have got an operationg system that is easy to use (easier than windoze! in its own way )
stable (cant ever be said for anything made by M$ except whta they stole form others)
and blisteringly fast...

i just wish it installed that way out of the box!

Yeah, the package manager is amazingly slow.

I was using Synaptic on SuSE 10.0 but it's still unavailable for the 32 bit version of SuSE 10.1. My attempts at building it from source have failed. I'm starting to develop a dislike for smart. It's ridiculous to have to scroll across a page to read the descriptions of packages and the gui is, well, c**p when compared to synaptic.

Then there's the removal of all non-open-source kernel modules. I think this is the source of the problem with my still non-functional LSI Megaraid card. Then there's the less than complete support for my motherboard's ServerWorks III HE chipset. The only thing by Intel on the motherboard is the Ethernet Pro 10/100+. SuSE 10.1 is a major step back for functionality (except for the implementation of Xorg 6.9, thanks to which my ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 7200's TV Tuner is working).

I'm beginning to think Novell was the worst thing that could have happened to SuSE.

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I'm beginning to think Novell was the worst thing that could have happened to SuSE.

Sir, I could not agree with you more :)

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