I wonder what my problem is, then. I turned SATA off. Is there any particular setting you tweaked in the BIOS? Did you upgrade the BIOS? Did you do anything different?
Preston
----- Original Message ----- From: Scott Leighton To: suse-amd64@suse.com Sent: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 18:13:38 -0700 Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Giving up on 64-bit Linux for now
On Friday 17 September 2004 3:22 pm, me@prestoncrawford.com wrote:
FWIW, my motherboard is an MSI K8MM and my CPU is an AMD Athlon 3200+.
I'm running the same motherboard but with an Athlon 2800+. As another poster mentioned, the only issues I've had are compiling certain packages 64 bit. All the SuSE provided software on the DVD works fine out of the box. Getting DVD stuff to work 64 bit is a royal pain. Certain things flat out aren't available, like a 64 bit flash player.
Other than the software issues, I've had no problem at all.
Scott
On Friday 17 September 2004 7:01 pm, me@prestoncrawford.com wrote:
I wonder what my problem is, then. I turned SATA off. Is there any particular setting you tweaked in the BIOS? Did you upgrade the BIOS? Did you do anything different?
I did absolutely nothing. Bought the box, brought it home, it had XP installed so I installed SuSE 64 bit dual boot and off I went. The only thing I changed in BIOS was the boot order, to have the CDROM boot first.
It's using the on-board video, sound and network, has a Western Digital 80gb IDE drive and 512 mb DDR 400 memory.
Scott
Well folks, if it's any consolation to the rest of you, I too have shelved 64-bit Linux for now, but it isn't SuSE's fault per se... I cannot get Vmware to run under *any* 64-bit distro. I know that others here have, and I can only conclude that it must be some peculiarity of my hardware. Even Vmware's tech support couldn't figure out what was going wrong. I figure in a month or two they'll get everything worked out and there'll be a new build available that works. Very soon now the number of AMD64 users is going to reach some sort of critical mass and I think we'll see more wholehearted efforts from commercial developers like them. For now though, it's a damn shame to be 'wasting' all that extra power under the hood running a 32-bit OS.
--- Scott Leighton helphand@pacbell.net wrote:
On Friday 17 September 2004 7:01 pm, me@prestoncrawford.com wrote:
I wonder what my problem is, then. I turned SATA
off. Is there any
particular setting you tweaked in the BIOS? Did
you upgrade the BIOS? Did
you do anything different?
I did absolutely nothing. Bought the box, brought it home, it had XP installed so I installed SuSE 64 bit dual boot and off I went. The only thing I changed in BIOS was the boot order, to have the CDROM boot first.
It's using the on-board video, sound and network, has a Western Digital 80gb IDE drive and 512 mb DDR 400 memory.
Scott
jerry bookter wrote:
Well folks, if it's any consolation to the rest of you, I too have shelved 64-bit Linux for now, but it isn't SuSE's fault per se... I cannot get Vmware to run under *any* 64-bit distro.
I too was unable to get VMWare to run until build 8848 which runs like a champ on my emachines laptop. I boot into SuSE and when I need to run windows, start a session of the desired version, do what I need and close it down. If I'm feeling particularly daring from a security standpoint, I might even let it run in the background throughout my SuSE session ;)
A suggestion though- install a 32-bit alternative multi-boot. The only app I have had trouble with in 64-bit was the wireless driver (Broadcom). When I plan to use wireless, I boot into the 32-bit partition. With current laptop disks (mine is 80gb) I have plenty of room for both Linux partitions and even a couple of native windows partitions (98 & 2003 that I hardly use any more).
Curt Purdy CISSP, GSEC, MCSE+I, CNE, CCDA Information Security Engineer DP Solutions
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I've found that if I try to create a new VMware virtual machine on our Dual-Opteron server (SuSE SLES8 64-bit) I get a segfault and it crashes during the guest OS install. However if I create the VM on another (32-bit) server first and then copy that virtual machine onto the Dual-Opteron server, it runs just fine on it!
Weird!
-----Original Message----- From: jerry bookter [mailto:jerryb1961@yahoo.com] Sent: Saturday, 18 September 2004 7:15 p.m. To: suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Giving up on 64-bit Linux for now
Well folks, if it's any consolation to the rest of you, I too have shelved 64-bit Linux for now, but it isn't SuSE's fault per se... I cannot get Vmware to run under *any* 64-bit distro. I know that others here have, and I can only conclude that it must be some peculiarity of my hardware. Even Vmware's tech support couldn't figure out what was going wrong. I figure in a month or two they'll get everything worked out and there'll be a new build available that works. Very soon now the number of AMD64 users is going to reach some sort of critical mass and I think we'll see more wholehearted efforts from commercial developers like them. For now though, it's a damn shame to be 'wasting' all that extra power under the hood running a 32-bit OS.
--- Scott Leighton helphand@pacbell.net wrote:
On Friday 17 September 2004 7:01 pm, me@prestoncrawford.com wrote:
I wonder what my problem is, then. I turned SATA
off. Is there any
particular setting you tweaked in the BIOS? Did
you upgrade the BIOS? Did
you do anything different?
I did absolutely nothing. Bought the box, brought it home, it had XP installed so I installed SuSE 64 bit dual boot and off I went. The only thing I changed in BIOS was the boot order, to have the CDROM boot first.
It's using the on-board video, sound and network, has a Western Digital 80gb IDE drive and 512 mb DDR 400 memory.
Scott
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