FC6 and AMD64 CPUs?

[Renich Bon Ciric]

On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 09:50 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 20:28 -0500, Renich Bon Ciric wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 20:23 -0700, Jim Lowman wrote: 
> > > I have tried, without any luck, installing FC6 on two of my AMD64-based 
> > > computers.
> > I have a Athlon 5400+ on an Asus MB with Nvidia chipsets and it works
> > more than well!
> > 
> > Try this iso version:
> > http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/test/6.93/Fedora/x86_64/iso/F-6.93-x86_64-DVD.iso
> > 
> > It's the one i'm using. 
> > > 
> > > Computer #1 is an HP m7640n that is a few months old.  It has a 
> > > dual-core AMD64 X2 5000+ CPU, and an nVidia GeForce 6150 LE display adapter.
> > > 
> > > Computer #2 is one that I assembled, with an AMD64 4200+ CPU, and an 
> > > nVidia display adapter.  This box has FC4 on it, with no new hardware 
> > > installed since that install.
> > > 
> > > The install (AMD 64-bit version) stops dead after identifying the video 
> > > card, in both cases. The "X" comes up and that's it.
> > > 
> > > Someone mentioned furnishing parameters when installing on a box with an 
> > > AMD64 CPU, but I can't seem to locate them.
> > > 
> > > I'm about to pull my hair out, what little there is on top.  Any help 
> > > will be gratefully appreciated.
> 
> I'm running FC6 x86_64 on an AMD64 X2 5800/Abit mobo, an Opteron
> 1210/Gigabyte mobo, an HP Pavillion ZV600-series laptop (Athlon64) and
> an Athlon64 X2 5800/EVGA mobo (made by Shuttle), all with no problems.
> Most have nVidia chipsets, but the laptop has ATI (no 3D graphics).

Get the drivers from livna!

> 
> The boot options you may need are "noacpi", "noapic" or "noapmd" (or
> some combination of two or three of them).  Personally, I've not needed
> any, but I may have been just lucky.
> 
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