Successful Install - Kalyway 10.5.2 (Intel)

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Hello

 

First, apologies for my rusted english, high school was long ago.

 

Yesterday I installed Kalyway 10.5.2 on my PC, home-built with the following components:

 

Motherboard : Supermicro PDSBE Product description

 

Proc : Core2duo E6320 (support SSE2/SSE3)

 

Ram : 2 x 2 GB Samsung

 

Video : NVIDIA 8500GT 256Mo fanless (Gigabyte)

 

DVD/DVD-RW Sata Optiarc (AD-L7191S)

 

HDD : Maxtor 200Mo 6B200M0 (SATA 1,5 Gb)

 

Keyboard : PC Cherry, PS2

 

Mouse : USB noname

 

Display : CRT Nec Multisync 95F

 

 

I dont had any problem during installation, fully functionnal out of the box, with audio, network, accelerated display (Quartz supported).

I installed it on a single HFS+ (journaled) partition in multiboot configuration (grub and boot_v8) with ArchLinux 64 bits.

 

I just had to choose the PC keyboard configuration and switch display to 1600x1200@32bits, the display was accurately identified and the max frequency was modified accordingly from 85Hz to 75Hz.

 

I find the quality of the Kalyway DVD astounding, many thanks for the fantastic work!

 

About the motherboard that was chosen for the linux PC: the bios implementation by Supermicro is really good, I checked the DSDT by decompiling and recompiling with Intel compiler: 0 errors, 0 warnings.

Before the Supermicro, I had a Tyan that was a real with a poorly implemented bios: dozens of errors and warnings when recompiling to check DSDT, ACPI problems and processor speed errors under linux, even with the 3rd bios revision... As it was not a cheap motherboard, I was NOT pleased about it.

 

So, I am real happy with the Supermicro motherboard: works like a charm.

 

Hope it could help with hardware selection, and as previously said: well done!