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
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