From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Iiwck-00055n-4w for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:31:06 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l9JIH7YE012287; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:17:07 GMT Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9JIH7tt012270 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:17:07 GMT Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IiwP4-00054E-VW for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:16:58 +0000 Received: from ip68-230-96-73.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.230.96.73]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:16:58 +0000 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-230-96-73.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:16:58 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: 965 chipset and 2 DIMM slots will never give 4GB available? Is that correct? Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:16:53 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <299eu4-vih.ln1@poboxes.info> <200710181500.24885.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-96-73.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.132 (Waxed in Black) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 0c89069a-9d8b-4022-b080-eda5eb284086 X-Archives-Hash: cf11b77066b3300f4b353c868e82ceec Evert posted bifmu4-nhd.ln1@poboxes.info, excerpted below, on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:04:11 +0200: > Thank you for putting the whole problem in cleartext. I have forwarded > your text to AOpen, hoping that even they understand it... ;-) (I > understood the problem already, but it's not easy to get AOpen to see > this/my point of view on the issue...) Hopefully they can be made to see it. then. =8^) FWIW, while they /are/ somewhat more expensive (being targeted at servers), I've been /very/ happy with Tyan. They seem to have the best Linux support of any of the big board makers, even offering preconfigured lm_sensors.conf files in many cases (including mine), as well as certifying to Red Hat, SuSE, etc. I was also quite surprised when well after I bought this board and after many manufacturers would be end-of- life-ing their products, Tyan was still updating their BIOS firmware, and did so to provide dual-core support on this board and several others where they could, even tho the board had never been originally designed or marketed with that feature. That was quite a pleasant surprise! =8^) OTOH, as I said, more expensive. It's a dual-socket-940 Opteron system; a roughly $400 board. Still, that's in line with what other makers were charging for similar at the time. Anyway, altho I'll likely move back down-scale some at my next upgrade, it's quite likely that Tyan got a repeat customer. I've been very happy with both the board itself and with Tyan's Linux support (altho there was a memory timing issue in the early BIOS versions that drove me crazy for awhile, given I had generic memory that wasn't quite stable at the labeled speeds; but they solved that nicely too; it just took a bit longer than I'd have liked, given I had the problem at the time). -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list