[SATLUG] Getting frustrated with my new machine

[Chuck]

Hi Jeremy,

I know this may sound a little basic, but its a good point for someone
else -- even if its not your problem.

On the installations you've tried -- are you sure the distribution is
the correct one for the AMD 64-bit chip?  For example, the FedoreCore4
ISOs I have are for an Intel chip and are named 
FC4-i386-disc1.iso 
through 
FC4-i386-disc4.iso.

I just looked up the FedoreCore4 image names for the AMD 64-bit chip and
they are named:
FC4-x86_64-disc1.iso 
through 
FC4-x86_63-disc5.iso.
And the webpage states they are for use with the "64-bit AMD64, EM64T".

I once helped a friend that was trying to use a generic Intel copy of
Redhat x on an AMD machine.  It gave somewhat similar results to what
you've described.  And I just thought that it might be worth mentioning
for the new people that most distributions come in flavors.

For example, the RedHat site shows three flavors for FedoraCore4 -- one
for Intel chips, one for AMD64 chips, and one for PowerPC (Mac 64-bit)
machines.  And ya gotta have the right one to have any chance of working
successfully.

The Novel/SuSE website shows that the new Novel Linux Desktop 9 comes in
two flavors -- x86 or EM64T.  So again, you have to have the right
version to work correctly.

And the one website I could find with Mandriva RPMs shows both
Mandriva2005 and Mandriva2005_64bit RPMs.  Shows they've got both
flavors too.

Anyway, I'll shut up finally.  But just check to be sure you've got the
right versions for your hardware.


Chuck




On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 13:14, REYNOLDS, JEREMY (SBCSI) wrote:

    I've been out of the linux for a couple of years.  I just built myself a
    new machine and I have tried installing numerous distributions and they
    all seem to lock up after the install.  I'm not sure but I'm thinking
    that my video card and or monitor might be causing the problems.  I have
    a Chaintech Nvidia GeForce 6200 PCI Express video card and a Dell
    2005FPW monitor.  My machine also has an AMD 64 bit processor.
    
    I've tried the latest version of SUSE and it loaded fine but whenever I
    tried to scroll in any program it would take about 30 seconds for it to
    scroll.  I tried to update the video driver but the installation kept
    failing and saying that I didn't have the source code for my kernel.
    
    Next I tried Mandrake 10.2.  Again it installed fine but when it goes to
    the graphical logon screen is freezes.
    
    Next I tried Fedora Core 4.  The graphical install program just goes to
    a white screen and freezes.  I did a text install that appeared to work.
    When I rebooted my machine after the install the bootloader was corrupt
    and just threw a bunch of 9s out to my screen and then locked up.
    
    Does anybody have any ideas?  I'm not real picky about distributions
    other than I like KDE and tend to do a lot of mutilimedia and web
    browsing.
    
    JR
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