From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: kaushal Subject: amd 64 and linux Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 10:55:07 +0530 Message-ID: <1124688307.3380.50.camel@kaushal> Reply-To: kaushal@rocsys.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org hello list, I have a 64 bit AMD Athlon xp machine with 64 bit Fedora core 3 installed .The cds have been purchased as a set of 8 cds including the sources.After installation what I find is: 1.The machine boots up VERY slowly. 2.Graphics display the previous windows shutdown screen if I reboot from windows. 3.The machine runs very slow as if it were to be a 386 machine although have 256 MB ram (192 for programs and 64 for vga).Can I tune any proc entries and improve the performance safely? 4.Whenever I try to copy a cd from linux it fails everytime reporting some kind of seek errors,but the same cd would get copied in windows.Is there any default switch to cp which I have to override? 5.When I shutdown/init 0 the machine it simply reboots. I suspect the drivers for my graphics is not present.Is it possible? Thanks in advance. -kaushal.