Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
me@prestoncrawford.com 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@suse.com) 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. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====
lördag 18 september 2004 01:04 skrev Sid Boyce:
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.
I had a few hangups here, on my system ... first was due to the BIOS, which was solved when I upgraded. Had to do with DMA, which need to be or the system will be significantly slower. Second, I've had a few apparent freezes ... which are mostly the system just locking itself for a few seconds, or longer and than coming back to life. Otherwise, SuSE 9.1 has worked marvelously for me since it came out. My system is an MSI NEO, AMD64 3000+ with 512Mb memory. After reading a bit, I came across that a possible scenario for hangups is the power supply. If it's flaky, it can cause power drop to the cpu which will stop working properly ... something to look out for, if you built your system on an older box, with new Mobo + Cpu. Mvh, Örn
Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====
Örn Hansen wrote:
lördag 18 september 2004 01:04 skrev Sid Boyce:
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.
I had a few hangups here, on my system ... first was due to the BIOS, which was solved when I upgraded. Had to do with DMA, which need to be or the system will be significantly slower. Second, I've had a few apparent freezes ... which are mostly the system just locking itself for a few seconds, or longer and than coming back to life. Otherwise, SuSE 9.1 has worked marvelously for me since it came out. My system is an MSI NEO, AMD64 3000+ with 512Mb memory. After reading a bit, I came across that a possible scenario for hangups is the power supply. If it's flaky, it can cause power drop to the cpu which will stop working properly ... something to look out for, if you built your system on an older box, with new Mobo + Cpu.
Mvh, Örn
Good point, I also installed an adequate Power Supply (450W) and the largest available CPU heatsink for the XP3000+. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====
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