Doing some further research on google i find that there actually *is* some
functionality that the geode is missing to be a full 686 processor. It seems
that other distros either have a 486 kernel flavour or kernel patches for 686
which are able to emulate the missing functionality.
Also I am
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Status: Incomplete = Won't Fix
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adding back kernel flavour 386
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Changing to Confirmed, as apport-collect makes no sense in the context
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As you can see from the doc, Ubuntu devs want to support fewer kernel
flavors, not more. They've even eliminated the non-PAE kernel, which is
needed for some fairly moden CPU's like some Atom's and Pentium M's
(some users are still kicking and screaming about that). i486 is even
more of a niche,
Okay, so a quick Google appears to confirm that the Geode LX CPU
supports 686 instructions. You should be able to boot Ubuntu 11.10.
Also note that Lubuntu and Xubuntu 12.04 use a non-PAE kernel by default
for 32-bit installs. Please try to boot/install Lubuntu 12.04 and let us
know what happens.
Thank you Dave, I wonder why I didn't check that. You are right, the english
wiki article about the amd geode also mentions full x86 compatibility for the
geode LX but I am a bit confused about that now.
It seems that the problem is more complex then. I am already running 12.04
without X which
converted from this question as suggested
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/210557
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Title:
adding back kernel flavour 386
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Moving to the kernel package. This will most likely be rejected, but
I'll leave the Kernel team to give you the official reason why.
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