Mandrakelinux 10.2 for x86-64 [ Release Notes ] ============================= The contents of this CD-ROM are Copyright (C) 2003,2004 Mandrakesoft S.A. and others. Please see the individual copyright notices in each source package for distribution terms. The distribution terms of the tools copyrighted by Mandrakesoft are noted in the file COPYING. Mandrakelinux and its logo are trademarks of Mandrakesoft S.A. ============================================================================ 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. * ATI RS480 based mainboards It was noticed that with the default 2.6.11-6mdk kernel, the clocks ticks in twice as fast as for real. This means that, for example, "time sleep 10" will actually sleep for 5 seconds. A fix is already available but could not make it into this DVD, it will appear as -7mdk in the updates. 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. Likewise for ATI drivers v8.10.19 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 .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).