--- Paul Alfille <palfille@earthlink.net> wrote:
A new AMD64 bit machine, new SUSE 9.3, should be heaven.
Machine hangs after a few minutes of use, but I can't tell why. I hope someone recognizes a problem part so I can address it.
Parts: Motherboard: Asus A8V-E includes: Disk controller: VIA SATA and IDE drives Network: Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E gigabit sound, usb, firewire on board CPU: AMD Athlon64 XP3500+ Graphics: Gigabyte PCI-Express 6600GT (NX66T128D)
Attempts: WinXP: Embarassingly stable. SuSE9.3 (64bit) crashes Fedora Core 4 64-bit crashes Ubantu64 crashes DamnSmallLinux (embedded under XP with QEMU) stable!!!
Obviously SuSE is my choice. I keep trying online update, hoping that the system will stay up long enough to complete and that a fix is coming.
Any thoughts?
Paul Alfille
-- When Windows is stable, but linux is not I like to check the bios. Google around for bios setup info with linux and linux64. The basic idea is that you can not shadow anything, no mem holes, etc.
Back when 32bit was new I had a linux box that behaved like you described. The shadowed bios system calls were only 16 bit and not needed. I am guessing you have some 32bit code in the bios that you need to disable - just use linux drivers for everything. Rafe