Re: FC-6 disappointment on AMD Athlon64 3200+ machine

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James Wilkinson wrote:

>> I'd certainly be interested to know if anyone else
>> has had similar problems running a Fedora x86_64 distribution
>> on an AMD Athlon64 3200+ machine.
> 
> That's precisely what I've got, and I had no install problems. Having
> said that, I certainly didn't install everything at install time -- I was
> doing an FTP install, and was interested in getting the machine up and
> running so I could be configuring some of it while other packages were
> downloading. I think I went for X, Gnome, and a few other optional
> packages in the initial install.
> 
> What sort of motherboard do you have? Which chipset?

It's a Targa machine with Asus K8V-F motherboard and VIA K8T800 Chipset,
about 2 years old.

Several of the "official" Linux kernels have not run on this machine.
But Windows XP has run without problem since the machine was installed.

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