Mandrakelinux 10.2 for x86-64 [ Release Notes ]
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1. Hardware
* BIOS updates
The following table lists the minimal BIOS requirements to get
the system working properly.
ASUS SK8N 1002 (1003+ for Athlon 64 FX owners)
ASUS K8V 1005
Rioworks HDMA 1.72
MSI K8T Neo (MS-6702) 1.2
EPoX 8KDA3+ / 8KDA3J 09/15/04
If you get kernel panics during installation, please try to boot
with "idle=poll". If that works for you, contact your vendor for
a BIOS update.
* Notebooks support
The following notebooks are known to work without particular boot
options passed to the kernel
- Acer Aspire 1511LC
- Acer Aspire 1501LMi
- Mitac
- HP nx9105
eMachines M6811
ACPI is recommended for optimal operation, but the kernel
parameter "pci=noacpi" is essential for sound and LAN to
function. With ACPI on, the screen is dimmed every boot. Simply
make it brighter with Fn+F8 (bug #12139). It does not do this
with ACPI off.
2. Software
* 3D acceleration vs. 32-bit applications
Mandrakelinux 2.6 series kernels and X.org X11 servers provide an
experimental thunking layer allowing 32-bit OpenGL applications
to work on X.org X11 supported ATI Radeon & Matrox cards.
Note that only the following cards have been tested with 32-bit
OpenGL acceleration for Tuxracer and Quake3:
ATI Radeon 9000 and 9200, Matrox G450 DualHead.
Note that nVidia users now have 3D acceleration in 32-bit
applications too with drivers 1.0-6097 and newer.
* Users with the following audio chipset may experience some lag
in sound output with long samples and the ALSA driver installed
by default. In that case, you may get better results with OSS.
snd-intel8x0: Advanced Micro Devices|AMD-8111 AC97 Audio
(vendor:1022 device:746d subv:10f1 subd:2885)
* 32-bit development on your x86-64 system
Mandrakelinux 10.2 now has much improved support for developing
32-bit applications on x86-64 without the need to set up a
chroot, nor having to remove the -devel package of either
architecture. i.e. you can install 32-bit and 64-bit development
packages at once (or later) without any conflicts. This has been
tested and verified to work so far for as complex applications as
Gedit, Evolution 2.0 and other GTK+1.2 applications.
Sample usage: linux32 rpm --rebuild <package>.src.rpm
NOTE: as of beta 1, urpmi doesn't fully support 32-bit -devel
packages dependencies yet. As a workaround you can manually
install with rpm or use urpmi 'devel(libFOO)' where FOO is for
example X11. Hint: a package providing libFOO.so, will end up to
provide devel(libFOO).
