Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3996 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
> me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > SuSE, unfortunately, though, is all binary as we all know. And
> > for whatever reason the binary packages they've put together for 
> > Athlon 64 are very flakey. At
> > least they were for me. Very frustrating. I wanted to run this in 
> > 64-bit mode, but not if I can't
> > update the kernel, etc. Not if my filesystem continually gets mangled. 
> > I don't know what's going
> > on.
> >  
> My install went very smoothly, and my learning curve on the 64 bit has 
> been a good experience.  I haven't seen the problems of which you 
> speak.  What file system did you use?  I chose ext3.  Been using ext3 
> since 7.3 IIRC with no problems.  FWIW, most problems I have seen /read 
> about were usually BIOS problems.  Do you have the latest BIOS for the 
> MB?  There is an amd64 list (suse-amd64@xxxxxxxx) that has some very 
> knowledgeable people.  If you gave more info you might get some good 
> help there.  HTH
I installed 9.0 x86_64 (reiserfs) then upgraded to 9.1 when it came out, 
Acer Aspire 1501LCe laptop with XP3000+/512M/Radeon 9600 video/USB stuff 
such as webcam, kodak camera DX3600, serial, sound apps like skype etc. 
No problems with SuSE except building some packages where it will 
happily link with 64-bit libs then go off to the 32-bit libs looking for 
a library that is only a 64-bit one. Kernel builds have been fine, 
currently running 2.6.9-rc2-mm1 and -bk kernels before that.
Some motherboards are fussy about memory, a good idea would be to test 
out using 9,1 x86 and if the problem is still there, then look at the 
hardware as a possible source of trouble. I got a new 32-bit Asus 
motherboard and XP2600+, both turned out to be bad and caused hangs and 
filesystem corruptions.
Regards
Sid.
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