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.
