On Friday 18 April 2008 05:30, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Dave Plater [04-18-08 04:05]:

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has anybody ever upgraded to a X86_64 kernel? I'm running an Athlon 64x2 cpu on 32 bit suse.

iirc, the census of the discussion in this forum was a resounding no.

In fact, if my recollection is correct, all doubt was removed by a Novell / SuSE employee themself (Marcus, perhaps?). We were told in no uncertain terms that if you tried you'd end up with an inert lump.

-- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG #

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* Randall R Schulz [04-18-08 09:41]:

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Yes, and an aftershock 4.5 about two hours go. No damage that I am aware. :^) -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

* Dave Plater [04-18-08 04:05]:

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has anybody ever upgraded to a X86_64 kernel? I'm running an Athlon 64x2 cpu on 32 bit suse.

iirc, the census of the discussion in this forum was a resounding no. Hi the reason I wondered was kernel.org does not have different kernels and I have recompiled my own for Athlon 64 plus 64 bit addressing and the only problem I had was with the ACPI, I had to disable it and then it worked fine. I just

Patrick Shanahan wrote: tried to install an x86_64 kernel-default with zypper and it actually agreed to do it, I didn't go any further though. I had a brief look through the list archives and what I saw looked to be about a system upgrade to x86_64. Thanks for reply Dave Plater -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org