Günther Schwarz

Any experiences yet with this new desktop chipset and OpenSuSE? For the
time being Intel does not offer Linux support for the built in
Graphics Media Accelerator 3100. So while 3D is obviously out of
question I wonder if I will get a working system with standard graphics
or just a dead brick with a black screen. Provided the NIC works it
might still be usefull as a file server or something. Power consumption
on a modern office PC is too low to use it as an electric heater
though ;-)

The new machine was not shipped so I did not have to opportunity to test
it yet. And while general wisdom tells not to get the latest hardware
for setting up a Linux desktop system I did not have a choice for the
mainboard in this specific case. So while I do appreciate advice in
this direction I won't profit from it.

Günther

jvelador@gmail.com

On Nov 12, 2:03 pm, Günther Schwarz <st...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Any experiences yet with this new desktop chipset and OpenSuSE? For the
> time being Intel does not offer Linux support for the built in
> Graphics Media Accelerator 3100. So while 3D is obviously out of
> question I wonder if I will get a working system with standard graphics
> or just a dead brick with a black screen. Provided the NIC works it
> might still be usefull as a file server or something. Power consumption
> on a modern office PC is too low to use it as an electric heater
> though ;-)
>
> The new machine was not shipped so I did not have to opportunity to test
> it yet. And while general wisdom tells not to get the latest hardware
> for setting up a Linux desktop system I did not have a choice for the
> mainboard in this specific case. So while I do appreciate advice in
> this direction I won't profit from it.
>
> Günther

I have the same chipset on an HP dc7800p and successfully installed
OpenSUSE 10.3. I did have to specify the acpi=off during install and
for subsequent bootups. This provides me with basic dual head mode
with both screens displaying the same thing. I'll post when I can get
Xinerama going on it.

Javier Velador

Günther Schwarz

jvelador@gmail.com wrote:

> On Nov 12, 2:03 pm, Günther Schwarz <st...@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Any experiences yet with this new desktop chipset and OpenSuSE? For
>> the time being Intel does not offer Linux support for the built in
>> Graphics Media Accelerator 3100. So while 3D is obviously out of
>> question I wonder if I will get a working system with standard
>> graphics or just a dead brick with a black screen.

>> The new machine was not shipped so I did not have to opportunity to
>> test it yet.

> I have the same chipset on an HP dc7800p and successfully installed
> OpenSUSE 10.3. I did have to specify the acpi=off during install and
> for subsequent bootups. This provides me with basic dual head mode
> with both screens displaying the same thing. I'll post when I can get
> Xinerama going on it.

Thank you very much indeed for sharing your experience. A working ACPI
system would be nice, as the office PCs should go to suspend when idle.
I'm still waiting for the new computer, but will post here as soon as I
had the opportunity to test it.

Since my first posting Intel also included this chipset into their
graphics system:
<http://intellinuxgraphics.org/documentation.html>

Günther

Günther Schwarz

Günther Schwarz wrote:

> jvelador@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> On Nov 12, 2:03 pm, Günther Schwarz <st...@gmx.de> wrote:
>>> Any experiences yet with this new desktop chipset and OpenSuSE? For
>>> the time being Intel does not offer Linux support for the built in
>>> Graphics Media Accelerator 3100. So while 3D is obviously out of
>>> question I wonder if I will get a working system with standard
>>> graphics or just a dead brick with a black screen.
>
>>> The new machine was not shipped so I did not have to opportunity to
>>> test it yet.
>
>> I have the same chipset on an HP dc7800p and successfully installed
>> OpenSUSE 10.3. I did have to specify the acpi=off during install and
>> for subsequent bootups. This provides me with basic dual head mode
>> with both screens displaying the same thing. I'll post when I can get
>> Xinerama going on it.
>
> Thank you very much indeed for sharing your experience. A working ACPI
> system would be nice, as the office PCs should go to suspend when
> idle. I'm still waiting for the new computer, but will post here as
> soon as I had the opportunity to test it.

The new computer did finally arrive:
- FSC P5925 with Intel Q35 and Core Duo CPU
- DVI TFT monitor
OpenSuSE 10.3 installs with acpi=off, NIC and X11 work, though no 3D.
OpenSuSE 10.2 does not even boot the initial system.
SLED 10 installs with Service Pack 1 and acpi=off.
Ethernet, however, does not work which is pretty much of a show stopper.
Ubuntu 7.10 live system works out of the box including sound, X11 and
suspend to RAM.

So 1:0 for the Ile of Man against Frankonia as far as support for this
specific hardware is concerned. But I'll stay with openSuSE as I have
no interest in configuring yet another distribution for our network.
Actually I would have prefered SLED because of the longer life cycle.

Hopefully the ACPI functions will work with future upgrades. Suspend
would be nice to have.

Günther