fc4 on AMD64 dual core

[Amadeus W.M.]

Just wondering what are people's experiences on dual core AMD64. Is this
architecture fully supported by fc4? Is fc4 stable on this architecture? 
Is fc4 optimized for amd64 x2?

I looked up the recommended motherboards at the AMD web site and all but a
few had an Nvidia chipset (the others VIA). Do I have to worry about
drivers? Do I have to download drivers from Nvidia the way we do for the
Nvidia video cards each time we upgrade the kernel? Which chipset is
natively supported by fc4?

Thanks!

[Gilboa Davara]

For all intent and purposes, dual core A64 == Dual Opteron. (Let alone
dual, dual core Opteron :))
FC4 x86-64 / nVidia 76.76 works just fine on my dual Opteron machine.

Gilboa

On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 10:37 -0400, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
>  Just wondering what are people's experiences on dual core AMD64.
> Is this
>  architecture fully supported by fc4? Is fc4 stable on this architecture? 
>  Is fc4 optimized for amd64 x2?
>  
>  I looked up the recommended motherboards at the AMD web site and all but a
>  few had an Nvidia chipset (the others VIA). Do I have to worry about
>  drivers? Do I have to download drivers from Nvidia the way we do for the
>  Nvidia video cards each time we upgrade the kernel? Which chipset is
>  natively supported by fc4?
>  
>  Thanks!
>  
>  
>  
>

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Amadeus W. M. wrote:

>  Just wondering what are people's experiences on dual core AMD64.
> Is this
>  architecture fully supported by fc4? Is fc4 stable on this architecture?
>  Is fc4 optimized for amd64 x2? 
dual cores looks like two cpu's. To the extent that multicpu 
amd64/opterons are well supported by fc4 so are the dual cores. My only 
dual core box is a dual processor dual core built on a tyan k8sd pro 
which works fine as far as I'm concerned...

>  I looked up the recommended motherboards at the AMD web site and all
> but a
>  few had an Nvidia chipset (the others VIA). Do I have to worry about
>  drivers? Do I have to download drivers from Nvidia the way we do for the
>  Nvidia video cards each time we upgrade the kernel? Which chipset is
>  natively supported by fc4? 
All the chipset integrated pieces in the via chipset boards are well 
supported. I have no personal experience with the nforce-4 ultra, there 
are people in here who've used it.

>  Thanks!
>
>
>
>
>
>  
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[Steve Underwood]

Joel Jaeggli wrote:

>  On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
>
> > Just wondering what are people's experiences on dual core AMD64. Is this
> > architecture fully supported by fc4? Is fc4 stable on this architecture?
> > Is fc4 optimized for amd64 x2?
>
>
>  dual cores looks like two cpu's. To the extent that multicpu 
>  amd64/opterons are well supported by fc4 so are the dual cores. My 
>  only dual core box is a dual processor dual core built on a tyan k8sd 
>  pro which works fine as far as I'm concerned...
>
> > I looked up the recommended motherboards at the AMD web site and all 
> > but a
> > few had an Nvidia chipset (the others VIA). Do I have to worry about
> > drivers? Do I have to download drivers from Nvidia the way we do for the
> > Nvidia video cards each time we upgrade the kernel? Which chipset is
> > natively supported by fc4?
>
>
>  All the chipset integrated pieces in the via chipset boards are well 
>  supported. I have no personal experience with the nforce-4 ultra, 
>  there are people in here who've used it. 
I use an Asus A8N-E board with the nForce-4 Ultra chip set and an X2 
4200+. It works very well, except for one BIOS related quirk. It doesn't 
detect my IDE drive at startup. After a press of the reset everything is 
fine. I believe SATA drives work without a hitch.

Regards,
Steve

[Rey Cruz]

On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 23:51 +0800, Steve Underwood wrote:
>  Joel Jaeggli wrote:
>  
>  > On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
>  >
>  >> Just wondering what are people's experiences on dual core AMD64. Is this
>  >> architecture fully supported by fc4? Is fc4 stable on this architecture?
>  >> Is fc4 optimized for amd64 x2?
>  >
>  >
>  > dual cores looks like two cpu's. To the extent that multicpu 
>  > amd64/opterons are well supported by fc4 so are the dual cores. My 
>  > only dual core box is a dual processor dual core built on a tyan k8sd 
>  > pro which works fine as far as I'm concerned...
>  >
>  >> I looked up the recommended motherboards at the AMD web site and all 
>  >> but a
>  >> few had an Nvidia chipset (the others VIA). Do I have to worry about
>  >> drivers? Do I have to download drivers from Nvidia the way we do for the
>  >> Nvidia video cards each time we upgrade the kernel? Which chipset is
>  >> natively supported by fc4?
>  >
>  >
>  > All the chipset integrated pieces in the via chipset boards are well 
>  > supported. I have no personal experience with the nforce-4 ultra, 
>  > there are people in here who've used it.
>  
>  I use an Asus A8N-E board with the nForce-4 Ultra chip set and an X2 
>  4200+. It works very well, except for one BIOS related quirk. It doesn't 
>  detect my IDE drive at startup. After a press of the reset everything is 
>  fine. I believe SATA drives work without a hitch.
>  
>  Regards,
>  Steve
>   
I just built my new computer about a month ago and it is running fine. I
had no trouble installing FC4 on it. The only problem I had was that yum
died during the update and I had to remove all the double packages by
hand. Just remember there is no java and flash for 64-bit versions of
browsers yet so if you need it just install the 32-bit version of
firefox, java, and flash's plugin.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ 
Asus A8N-SLI Premium
BFG Tech Geforce 6600GT
Corsair XMS 1GB DDR
2 Sata drives
Fedora Core 4 64-bit

Rey Cruz