[PlanetCCRMA] Planetedge Q3

Steve Harris S.W.Harris@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Sep 23 00:38:02 2004


On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 07:02:13 -0400, Matt Barber wrote:
> As far as I know the opterons will run 32-bit software and operating
> system natively... at this point we're not dual-booting but just running
> a normal x86 fedora2 with a 2.6.8.1 kernel and all the ccrma patches. 
> We've had a couple of issues with the nvidia drivers, but nothing too
> terrible so far - right now our biggest worry is cd burning.  I remember
> Fernando talking about doing some 64-bit releases, but that was going to
> be in the future, as he wanted to get 2.6 running stable first.

FWIW I've had problems with 2.6 and CD burning. My studio machine
cant write CDs at all (some wacky error, googling for it found other
people with 2.6 kernels and different drives with the same problem), and
my laptop seems to write them OK, but the one I tried was a coaster.

- Steve