On Wednesday 12 April 2006 07:28 am, Paul Stejskal Climbed A Telegraph Pole and Clicked: > ET wrote: > > I see on the Intel website > > (http://indigo.intel.com/compare_cpu/default.aspx?familyID=1) that > > there seem to be a number of CPUs above 3.4 that do not have 64 bit, I > > would ASSUME (I ain't no intel chip guru) that it would have 64 > > somewhere in the model number > > > > this should be on one line (mail reader wordwrap may spit it) > > http://indigo.intel.com/compare_cpu/showchart.aspx?mmID=878543,865970,862 > >277,860679,858099,871216,865932,861639,871214,861658&familyID=1&culture=en > >-US > > > > and should show a number of P4 chips around your cpu speed some with > > 64bits and some without... > > The word you're looking for is EM64T. Anyways, if you run Winblows > download a program called CPU-z. Under the processing things where it > gives a list of things like MMX, if it has EM64T, it'll run. Besides I > don't recommend running Mandriva 64 bit because the developers are lazy > in updating their libs for 64 bit from what I hear from Hawkwind. 32 bit > should run just fine anyway :).
In mandriva you can cat /proc/cpuinfo you should get something like: model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ only the intel equivelant. I agree with Paul on not using 64 bit distro yet. Libraries can be a mess. Lots of apps won't look in /usr/lib64 for what they require. I have heard that it's best to run the smp kernel but I don't do that myself. Hopefully, the next 64 bit version will be more user friendly. Hope this helps. benja22 -- Washington, D.C: Fifty square miles almost completely surrounded by reality. ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
