Mandriva Linux 2006 Core Updates 1 Now Available To Club Members

Mandriva Linux 2006 core updates 1 are now available to Club members, Standard level and above, in the "Download" section in "My Torrents" of the Club.

Major changes include:

• Improved support for Intel 'Napa'-based platforms:

• • Add Intel 945GM support
  • Add CPU hotplug support
  • Add SMP suspend support
  • Add Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG drivers
  • Add S3 & S4 support to AHCI & ata_piix drivers

• Misc hardware support:

• • Add SATA ICH8 support
  • Add 'Gilgal' ethernet support to Bensley platforms
  • Add nForce 430 support (forcedeth, HDA audio)
  • Update lpfc driver to 8.0.30
  • Update 3w-9xxx to 2.26.02.005 (3ware 9550SX)

• X.org 6.9.0 final, with the following drivers updates:

• • ATI 8.23.7
  • nVidia 1.0-8756
  • Improved 32-bit 3D acceleration support on x86_64 platforms

• Fix 3 buffer overflows that could have lead to a crash in the stage1 part of the installer (prior to starting up the graphical installer)
• Fix dmraid on 64-bit platforms

• LSI Logic megaide support currently requires to boot with "pci=noacpi"
• S4 support on Napa platforms with intel-agp in use only works with kernels i586-up-1GB and i686-up-4GB at this time (non PAE enabled kernels)