fc4 on AMD64 dual core

[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