FC5 on AMD Turion 64?

[Keith G. Robertson-Turner]

Patrick wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 13:27 +0100, Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote:
> [snip]
>> Running FC5 on the Ferrari, and loving it.
> 
> Same here :)
> 
>> Haven't really looked at power management stuff, since I always just 
>> shut down when not using the laptop, but everything else works - 
> 
> I haven't succeeded in getting the suspend stuff to work so if you
> investigate it and can make it work, please post it.

Yup - looking into it now, although we're probably looking to an 
upstream fix from kernel-dev.

>> including h/w accelerated OGL graphics (ATI X700), audio, Wi-Fi 
>> (madwifi), etc.
> 
> Is "madwifi" a typo? My 4005 came with a Broadcom bcm43xx WiFi chipset.

Yeah sorry - I mean ndiswrapper. I use madwifi on the P4 box.

>> Only caveat with 64bit OSen is no current support (for either Windows 64 
>> or Linux 64) from Macromedia (flashplayer) nor Sun (Java ns-plugin).
>>
>> They will eventually - they'll have to, the way things are going.
> 
> Yup, let's hope they won't take a year or two to see the light.

Beats me why they're being so slow. It'll hit them hard when 32bit 
becomes legacy and depreciated.

-
K.