Mandrakelinux 10.2 for x86-64 [ Release Notes ]
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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 <package>.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).