All systems go again

16th January, 2006     Life, Gentoo,

Had some offline time in a sense this last 5 days, when my computer of about 6 years (a P3-900Mhz), decided that it would finally blow-up, but only in a way that would cause me to wonder wtf it was doing.

2 Gentoo installs later, I realised it was not the hdd's going, but it was the motherboard (sigh).

So now, I have spent some money, and upgraded to a new fast machine (xorg compiled in 36 minutes!). So I am slowly catching up on email and things that have happened over the past week.

For those who are interested, some stats about the new computer:

• AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ (2211.355 MHz)
• 1 Gig of ram
• 4 x 250G HDD's
• 6600td graphics card
• asus motherboard with on board gigabit (nforce4 chipset)
• nice coolmaster 531 case.

Gentoo seems to run okay on it (running in actual 64 bit mode), with some apps requiring emulation due to no 32 bit support for now.

nforce4 drivers took a bit to get working - once i realised they used OSS instead of ALSA, things became much more apparent.

Will post some more info about the system in a week or so, to let you know how its going in 64 bit stuff.