Andy Wallace wrote:
Hi all,
I recently bought a 2.8GHz P4 (with hyperthreading), 1GB RAM, 160
GB HDD, with CD-RW/DVD, DVD+RW writer, MiniDisc reader, Digital
camera card reader, another slot which I'm not sure what it does??
- even has a floppy disk drive! Graphics card is ATI Radeon 9200
128MB. I also got a HP PSC 1350 combo Printer/Scanner/Copier (USB).
Needless to say, it came with Win XP Home, so the first thing I did
was format the hard disk :)
SuSE 9.0 - Didn't recognize the graphics card, didn't like the CPU,
installed packages from 1st CD but then froze on reboot (still
halfway through install). Only kernel choice was SMP, which might
have caused the problem. Overwrote MBR making system unbootable.
Debian Woody (from magazine cover DVD) - installer froze on boot :(
Gentoo 1.4 (from magazine cover DVD) - installer froze on boot :(
RH9 - Installed OK, but had to fake the ATI card as a 9100 in
XF86Config, defaults to SMP kernel which hangs on boot, UP kernel
works fine. Detected printer OK but nothing happened when I tried
to print, never detected scanner despite setting up with hpoj.
Fedora - detected all hardware OK, everything worked without
tweaking! Boots successfully from SMP kernel - if anyone's
wondering, these new hyperthreading CPUs appear as 2 CPUs to the
Linux kernel, but it's really a single CPU. Hope they get that
sorted out in 2.6.
There is nothing to sort out. The Hyperthreading CPU presents *itself*
to the kernel as 2 CPU's. It is correct for the kernel to present to
you 2 CPU's. 2.6 kernel would be broken if it did not do the same thing..
Cheers,
Michael
