I'm looking at the Dell XPS Studio with the new intel i7 chip. Anyone have experience with this new chipset with fedora?
-Thanks
Louis E Garcia II wrote:
I'm looking at the Dell XPS Studio with the new intel i7 chip. Anyone have experience with this new chipset with fedora?
Not personally, but I know a lot of people (including Linus, and the major server manufacturers) have been running Linux on this processor for quite a while.
Incidentally, the i7 is a processor¹, not a chipset². The chipset in this computer is the Intel X58 chipset, which is what practically everyone will have been using.
As a general rule, you’re much more likely to have problems with chipsets than processors: new chipsets usually need new drivers (which may be buggy or not exist), whereas processors are normally expected to be 100% backwards-compatible with their predecessors. In this case, you should be fine, since Intel is pretty good these days at ensuring Linux just works on most of their hardware, Linux is a target market for the hardware, and the chipsets just aren’t doing anything particularly new that needs software support.
And there again, you’re much more likely to have problems with dodgy BIOSes that are only tested with Windows than with chipsets. For that, you really need to check with someone who’s got a recent Dell.
You may want to ask again, specifically mentioning the graphics chip you’re planning on getting. It looks like you have a choice of the ATI Radeon HD 3450 or the 4850. man radeon on F10 mentions the 3450, but not the 4850.
Hope this helps,
James.
¹ Something that actually does the calculations. ² Something that helps drive data around the computer, and (usually) has a bunch of other integrated functions.
James Wilkinson wrote:
You may want to ask again, specifically mentioning the graphics chip you’re planning on getting. It looks like you have a choice of the ATI Radeon HD 3450 or the 4850. man radeon on F10 mentions the 3450, but not the 4850.
They're both HD, neither is supported by the Free as in speech 3D drivers. Both have working 2D support, but no 3D acceleration.
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon
Kevin Kofler
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Louis E Garcia II louisg00@bellsouth.net wrote:
I'm looking at the Dell XPS Studio with the new intel i7 chip. Anyone have experience with this new chipset with fedora?
-Thanks
Not with Fedora, but we have a CentOS 5.2 server with this new processor. It works well :-) ============= processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 26 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz stepping : 4 cpu MHz : 1600.000 cache size : 8192 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 8 core id : 0 cpu cores : 4 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 11 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc ida pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 cx16 xtpr popcnt lahf_lm bogomips : 5349.45 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual ========
uname -a
Linux foo.bar 2.6.18-92.1.18.el5 #1 SMP Wed Nov 12 09:19:49 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I think you can run Fedora without problem :)