Colin Carter writes:

Hi, I have the same stresses: In December I bought the AMD64 and SuSE 9.0 SuSE wouldn't install and it took three months of very poor support to discover that there was a problem. So I lashed out and bought SuSE 9.1 This version installs, but... I have been unable to connect to the internet ( had to buy another PC for that)

What is the problem? It works fine for others here, so I'm interested in more details.

And nobody seems to be able to advise me on how to configure my system so that I can code with X Window or Xt.

What kind of problem do you have? There shouldn't be a issue. If it's a real SUSE on AMD64 issue, feel free to ask and some of us will try to help... Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

Hello, yes, I do recommend SuSE. For 64bit users we are early adopters. Yet, SuSE 9.0 runs stable for me and beside hardware difficulties I had no trouble. The kernel I compiled myself solved the last minor issues about the box not shutting down cleanly. I am very happy. I consider the support provided by Mr. Kleen and Mr. Jaeger in this forum to be very good. Mind you, I am an MSDN subscriber and for this privilege I paid more than 3000 USD and I receive less support... regards, einar Colin Carter wrote:

Hi, I have the same stresses: In December I bought the AMD64 and SuSE 9.0 SuSE wouldn't install and it took three months of very poor support to discover that there was a problem. So I lashed out and bought SuSE 9.1 This version installs, but... I have been unable to connect to the internet ( had to buy another PC for that) And nobody seems to be able to advise me on how to configure my system so that I can code with X Window or Xt. It is nearly 11 months of hassle. Anybody recommend SuSE? Colin Carter

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Subject: [suse-amd64] Giving up on 64-bit Linux for now From: Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:22:18 -0700 To:

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(Also posted to the main SuSE list so please excuse the lack of context regarding my previous setup)

So I went ahead and picked up an 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+.

Someone suggested someone here may have some thoughts on what's going wrong. Any ideas given my setup?

Preston

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 11:43:37PM +0200, Peter Dalgaard wrote:

The issues with OOo take a bit more testing to find, but I can generally crash it within 5 minutes of playing with the formula editor

What do you mean to crash? Does it segfault? Or something else? And - does it not crash when you do the same playing on a 32bit box with the same OpenOffice version? The OpenOffice that is currently shipped in 9.1 is still 32bit. If it crashes where it won't crash on a 32bit kernel it would be a 32bit emulation bug in the kernel. But these have been pretty rare recently... If you can get me a reproducible test case I can look into it. -Andi

Hi, I'm also a happy user of SuSE 9.1 AMD64 platform. Thank you for AMD64 people at SuSE. Currently, dual opteron 246 (2 Ghz) with 8 Gbyte memory is the fastest performer running our application, compared with Apple dual G5 (2Ghz) and dual Xeon (2.8 Ghz) by a wide margin. Tosa Peter Dalgaard wrote:

einar writes:

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Hello,

yes, I do recommend SuSE. For 64bit users we are early adopters. Yet, SuSE 9.0 runs stable for me and beside hardware difficulties I had no trouble. The kernel I compiled myself solved the last minor issues about the box not shutting down cleanly. I am very happy.

I too have been quite satisfied with 9.1 as a development platform. I had a spot of trouble with a SATA card, but that would have happened in 32 bit too.

-- Yasunari Tosa, Ph.D. Email: tosa@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu NMR Ctr, Mass. General Hospital TEL: 617-726-4050 Building 149, 13th Street Charlestown, MA 02129 USA