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by **posi** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 4:36

The first, and by far more important: Will my wireless card work? It uses the madwifi driver. Without it I would be rather screwed. IIRC, it worked fine with RR64 (intaller always crashed), but it has been a long time.

The Second: Will I have to setup grub to dual-boot with Ubuntu?

by **cvill64** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 4:41

If it worked in rr64, your wireless will still work

We have a new installer that works 100x better than before

The installer will auto setup your grub to dual boot with your ubuntu install, just what carefully what's going on in the installer and you'll see where

by **posi** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 5:10

cvill64 wrote:If it worked in rr64, your wireless will still work We have a new installer that works 100x better than before

The installer will auto setup your grub to dual boot with your ubuntu install, just what carefully what's going on in the installer and you'll see where

Well, I'm 90% sure it worked.

I hope fglrx works. Ubuntus x64 nover does for me, but it is about 3 release old. I heard the latest release has much more seemless x64 support.

by **atrus123** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 18:27

posi wrote:
cvill64 wrote:If it worked in rr64, your wireless will still work We have a new installer that works 100x better than before

The installer will auto setup your grub to dual boot with your ubuntu install, just what carefully what's going on in the installer and you'll see where

Well, I'm 90% sure it worked.

I hope fglrx works. Ubuntus x64 nover does for me, but it is about 3 release old. I heard the latest release has much more seemless x64 support.

Let me know how this turns out. I'm seriously considering replacing my Ubuntu with Sabayon, and I'm curious about the fglrx w/ x64.

Also, here's a quick question for all of you in the know: are Sabayon and Gentoo completely compatable? I.e., can I use all the Gentoo repositories and not worry about breaking my system?

This sounds like a great distro. I look forward to diving back into a Gentoo based distro.

by **Dio** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 18:37

Sabayon and Gentoo are 100% compatable. They even pull packages from the same repository

by **cvill64** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 19:08

Yep...the only difference is that we add our own overlay to add a few more packages (think mandvd) and our themes and we preconfigure...that's about it

ATI and x86_64 is seemless in gentoo.....don't know why it wouldn't be elsewhere...you just have to make sure you're card is fully supported by the fglrx drivers (we have 8.28.8 right now)

by **atrus123** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 20:11

Ok, sweet. That's about what I figured, but I just wanted to make sure.

I was only concered about the 64 bit driver because the last time I used 64 bit fglrx (and this was a long time ago), my card was only barely supported. Of course, that's an ATI problem and has nothing to do with Linux.

by **cvill64** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 20:53

What is your card? I have a feeling its fully supported now

by **atrus123** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 0:35

cvill64 wrote:What is your card? I have a feeling its fully supported now

Oh, just an Xpress 200m. The 32 bit driver works beautifully and has for a while. I doubt the 64 bit version would be that different.

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