Hi, ma, 2005-05-02 kello 15:36 -0400, Doug Stewart kirjoitti: > Timothy Murphy wrote: > > I've been having problems with my Athlon64 machine > > (Targa with Asus motherboard) with recent kernels. > > I wonder if anyone else has found this? > > > > Basically, the machine hangs if left for a few minutes. > > I suspect it is something to do with ACPI. > > I've tried both the "official" Fedora kernels, > > and one (2.6.11.8) which I compiled with Athlon64 chosen > > as the processor. > > I have not been able to install FC 3 or FC 4 test 2 to Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo A 1630 laptop. FC 3 dies on install with "out of space errors" on root when there definitely is space. The synaptics touchpad is jittery and mouse cursor bounces all over the screen on install. FC 4 test 2 dies in loading the installation kernel. (FC 3 mouse problem during install is solved with acpi=off). I have managed to install FC 3 64-bit version on Fujitsu-Siemens desktop where it has and had several problems with usb devices. I simply could not get usb-mouse to work on usb-port. I had to move the mouse into ps2-port to get it to work. Again Ubuntu had no problems with mouse on usb-port. Yesterday I bought buffalo 1GB usb flash stick and when I plug it in on the desktop the mouse goes away and lsusb shows no stick. Unplugging the usb stick and killing X brings the mouse back. Both machines install ubuntu-hoary AMD64 version fine. Synaptics touchpad works fine without any acpi=off parameters and on the laptop the usb-stick works fine. I haven't yet tried it on the desktop with ubuntu or Windows XP but if it works on ubuntu, I will seriously consider switching to it. Ubuntu has its problems, namely printing to printers does not work from open office, xmms freezes on url-playback but at least the hardware works as it is supposed. I am going to, as soon as time allows me to, check out several current 64-bit distributions with both machines and write a web article of my experience. I have been Red Hat convert since 5.2 (when I switched from completely hacked Slackware to Red Hat) and despite a short hop for Suse professional (it had a better support out of the box for isdn then) I have used official and unofficial Red Hat related distributions ever since. Now it might be a good time to switch for something new and more easier to install and more reliable if such distribution yet exists for 64-bit athlon. Regards, Mauri Sahlberg
