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omerlh
04-17-2006, 04:55 AM
Hello!
I have this computer:
AMD 64 bit CPU (I think its Athlon)
SATA harddisk.
ATI tv wonder VE
1 GB ram
ATI Radeon XPRESS 200 Chipset
ATI SB400 Chipset
6 channels software audio codec RealTek ALC658
Realtek 8100C

I now have SuSE 10.0 and I hate it. I can't istall ubuntu, because it had problems with my SATA, with my onboard graphic card, and it wasn't very good to AND 64 bit. I want to know if there is another disro, that can handle all this, like SuSE does. I try looking in some distroes pages, but I didn't understand anything rom this.
My PC board page:
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=639
Thanks.

saikee
04-17-2006, 06:24 AM
Mandriva 2006 is pretty capable in handling hardware.

Also I would give a try with the Slax family, as its distros are the small and modern version of the Slackware. Don't any of them has a problem with Sata.

Red Hat family should be OK with the current version of FC5 too.

All 32 bits distros are supposed to work perfectly in AMD64 CPUs as far as I am aware.

omerlh
04-17-2006, 06:34 AM
Thanks.
I searched for slax in google. I found only live-cd. It have install cd?
I download Mandriva Linux 2006. But I saw that in Mandriva Linux 10.1 Official there is addtional NVIDIA/ATI graphics card drivers. I had problems with my ATI Radeon Xpress 200G Series with Ubuntu installing. Does Mandriva Linux 2006 would work with this graphic card rom box?

saikee
04-17-2006, 07:18 AM
All the distros (Slax, Slampp, Klax, Whax) in the Slax family has an embedded installer. They are small distros, all come with one installable LiveCD and supply the root password for logging into the GUI. As such it is a very useful distro. For example you can display and edit all the system files in the desktop and that can hep you implementing changes quickly to get the system components working. Both Suse and Ubuntu disallow a root log in with the GUI and you are therefore confined to a Bash shell if you need to do repairing work in the Linux.

I found the current Mandriva is more user-friendly than Suse.