So I went ahead and picked up the Athrlon 64. I"m much happier with it. It's much much quieter. And just as fast. There's a problem, though. I absolutely can't get 64-bit SuSE installed properly. 3 times after doing YOU updates my filesystem has been corrupted. About a dozen times I couldn't even do updates via YOU for some reason. They'd end in the middle mysteriously, then when I tried to run YOU again either the packages would still need to be installed or they wouldn't be installed and wouldn't be on the list. Either way it's been a mess. Worst of all, I rely on slrn as my newsreader (I've been trying to post to the newsgroup and can't) and it crashes when I try to post. It's a disaster, in short. I'm not sure if I'm trying to do things outside the norm or if there are generally problems with the 64-bit versions, but I"m beginning to think it's not worth my trouble for now. I have the chipset I want. I can upgrade later when these hassles go away. FWIW, my motherboard is an MSI K8MM and my CPU is an AMD Athlon 3200+. Preston
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 me@prestoncrawford.com wrote:
So I went ahead and picked up the Athrlon 64. I"m much happier with it. It's much much quieter. And just as fast. There's a problem, though. I absolutely can't get 64-bit SuSE installed properly. 3 times after doing YOU updates my filesystem has been corrupted. About a dozen times I couldn't even do updates via YOU for some reason. They'd end in the middle mysteriously, then when I tried to run YOU again either the packages would still need to be installed or they wouldn't be installed and wouldn't be on the list. Either way it's been a mess. Worst of all, I rely on slrn as my newsreader (I've been trying to post to the newsgroup and can't) and it crashes when I try to post. It's a disaster, in short. I'm not sure if I'm trying to do things outside the norm or if there are generally problems with the 64-bit versions, but I"m beginning to think it's not worth my trouble for now. I have the chipset I want. I can upgrade later when these hassles go away.
one of the this things about amd64 is that you don't *have* to run 64-bit everything on it. look at all the windows amd64 users out there. since you seem to be having probs with 64-bit suse, install 32-bit suse until the problems get fixed. i can't help much beyond that. my only experience with amd64 so far has been my freinds gentoo box. aside from the normal getting-use-to-gentoo problems, it's been running smoothly for him. -- trey
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