Fedora on an AMD Athlon 64 (3200+) machine

Timothy Murphy tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Sat Nov 18 22:20:19 UTC 2006


Timothy Murphy wrote:

> I have a Targa desktop with this processor,
> and I have always had problems installing Fedora x86_64 on it.
...
> I'd be interested to know if anyone has had similar problems
> with this CPU, or alternatively had no problems installing Fedora.

I asked this some time ago, and as far as I can see
only got replies from people running the i386 version of Fedora-6.

Yesterday I installed the i386 version on my Athlon 64 machine,
and it seems to run without any problems at all -
I compiled kernel-2.6.18.2 in a few seconds,
whereas trying to compile the same kernel under x86_64 
caused several crashes during the compilation, 
and when it was complete the kernel only ran for a few minutes 
before crashing.
(I had the experience trying to re-compile the latest Fedora kernel.)

I suppose it is possible that these problems arise from some fault
in my computer, but it seems much more likely to be a software problem.

So I'll ask again if anyone is happily running the x86_64 version of FC-6
on an Athlon 64 machine?

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