Fedora on an AMD Athlon 64 (3200+) machine

[John Trager]

I'm running Fedora x86_64 on an AMD 3800+ machine!  Homebrew using an ASUS 
AV8 Motherboard with 2GB of Dual-Channel RAM.

John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ric Moore" <wayward4now at gmail.com>
To: <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie>; "For users of Fedora" 
<fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: Fedora on an AMD Athlon 64 (3200+) machine


> On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 22:20 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Nope, I stuck with using the stock I686 kernel for now. I don't screw
> with the kernel either. I used to, back when, but too many things can
> break messing with it nowadays, and it's not worth it to me. I do more
> multimedia stuff so I'm sticking with 32 bit for now.
>
> You probably have the wrong kernel vs kernel-devel bug, if you just
> installed. One will be i686 and the other i586, I forgot which was
> which, but you can grasp the problem. Check this:
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&m=116211854832755&w=2
>
> Plus the config.h thing.
>
>
>
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