DIY Street Linux Thread.

[Guest culinist]

Yo Col.,

 

According to this post, a guy has his SI 3114 controller workin, don't think it's raid though.

 

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1...icon+image+3114

 

You may want to get some live cds, like pclinux, ubuntu, knoppix or overclockix. To see if you like some of those better. I think that RedHat Enterprise is a solid distro, but not really "supported". by the geek community alll that much. More geared toward buisiness. But if it is workin for ya.......stick with it. But, there are many "bleeding edge" distros available, for us tweakhounds, that have to live on that edge.

 

Let me know if you want to try some out. I have a whole 100CD case full of different distros. I'd be happy to send ya some. Although if you are on broadband you caould get 'em quicker.

 

BTW, nice scores there:)

[king of nothing]

With my LP-A at 230x10.5 I get 479.

 

With the same optimizations as Col. Howard I get 329.

[Col.Howard]

Culinist, since I'm super new to the linux scene (onyl prior experience with it is via cmd prompt interface using putty (tlenet prog), for webhosting work. So I'm open to suggestions...what would you recommend as a fairly stable, wide based distro?

[Guest culinist]

With my LP-A at 230x10.5 I get 479.

 

With the same optimizations as Col. Howard I get 329.

Yo KON, nice to see ya participating:0 Are you still running Debian?

 

@Col. Howard...

 

As far as a Linux distro go, I would recommend:

(in no particular order)

 

1. pclinuxos - easy to set up, it has a whole lot of great apps installed, awesome multimedia capabilities, plus nvidia and ati driver installed "out of the box".

 

2. ubuntu- Debian based, meaning a great community, over 16.700 available packages, great support with distribution releases coming around every 6 mo, never need to reinstall to update either, just a few simple commands or clicks.

 

3. Debian - my favorite, a little more complicated to install, but really well documented. You pretty much have total control over what you install since you usually start with just a base system in the command line and go from there. Anyone with good hardware knowledge can get er done without too much trouble. Huge package selection. Very stable and very fast. One of the few pure A64 distros available(afaik). Huge community, awesome, stable distro.

 

These are just a few of the too many choices for a desktop linux box. These are the ones that I run and have experience with. Alot of folks like Fedora and Suse, but I never had any luck with 'em. New distros pop up all the time, out of the ones I listed only Debian has been around,and popular for more than a year or so. Debian has been around almost from the beginning.

 

Fire back any questions you have. We'll get ya set up if you want to delve into the world of penguins:)

 

 

cul

[e_lion_1]

Col. Howard,

 

here's a couple of links you might want to check out

 

http://www.linuxiso.org/

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/

 

Looks like ATI has supplied a linux driver which will work for your 9800:

 

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.12.10.html

 

however, ATI's drivers come only in RPM format, which can make it a bit of a challenge to set up on a non-RPM system (Debian, Slackware, etc).

[king of nothing]

Yo KON, nice to see ya participating:0 Are you still running Debian?

Yes.... all toaster sigs are manufactured in Debian.

 

I'm still dual-booting with XP..... to keep the wife happy. :tooth:

[Guest culinist]

Col. Howard,

 

here's a couple of links you might want to check out

 

http://www.linuxiso.org/

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/

 

Looks like ATI has supplied a linux driver which will work for your 9800:

 

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.12.10.html

 

however, ATI's drivers come only in RPM format, which can make it a bit of a challenge to set up on a non-RPM system (Debian, Slackware, etc).

 

Alien works well for installing rpms in Debian. For me anyways.

 

 

@KON

 

I just told my wife taht Xp was broken and she "could just use Linux, until i got around to fixing it". now she is used to it and uses it daily. I should be ashamed of myself.

[e_lion_1]

back to pi.c ....

 

just got done trying on my A64 (at 2400MHz) (using a 32 bit linux...haven't downloaded/ordered/compiled a 64 bit one yet...)

 

pi w/o optimizations gets done in 431s.

pi with "-mtune=athlon64 -march=athlon64 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse" gets done in 276s.

 

cool!

[Guest culinist]

back to pi.c ....

 

just got done trying on my A64 (at 2400MHz) (using a 32 bit linux...haven't downloaded/ordered/compiled a 64 bit one yet...)

 

pi w/o optimizations gets done in 431s.

pi with "-mtune=athlon64 -march=athlon64 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse" gets done in 276s.

 

cool!

 

 

Nice times there e_lion_1. What distro are you running? On my Debian amd64 I can't get those -march=athlon64 -mtune=athlon64 switches to work. Wonder why? hmmmm? :confused:

 

If you want a fast true 64bit linux you could try http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/install-images/.

[e_lion_1]

What distro are you running?

using a testing version of LinuxFromScratch - 6.1.1 LiveCD.

linky: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/packages.html

 

The -march=athlon64 -mtune=athlon64 switches are dependant on the version of gcc used. The version of gcc I'm using is 3.4.3.

 

thanks for the 64bit linux link...will start downloading it later

(and maybe for the next two days - lol - I'm still on dial-up).

[Guest culinist]

Ah man i hope you can get a good download. If not shoot me a PM and we can work out gettin you a disk.

[Guest culinist]

Anyone run ubuntu amd64? I'm checkin it out now, it's not quite as fast as Debian pure64, but it's got potential.

 

Ijust zero'd my harddrive and reinstalled XP to a much smaller partition and dedicated the rest to PCLinuxOS and whatever 64 bit distro I'm checkin out. Any recomendations on 64 bit Linux? I may give gentoo another go next time I have a few days to blow. My last attempt failed miserably, about 15 times. I know alot more about how Linux works now so I think I'll be able to get it goin this time around.