Hey everyone, I've recently upgraded my server to an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+. As a pleasant surprise, the existing installation of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (which was originally installed for an Athlon XP 2600+ and uses a 32bit i386 kernel) worked just fine after the upgrade, with no tinkering needed aside from reconfiguring X to use the onboard video. Score 1 for Linux. :)
However, as I expected, the system still seems to think that there is only one core available and doesn't appear to be using the other core. Is there any way to get both cores working? I did a bit of brief googling on it and found out how to identify if the kernel supports SMP using uname and found that mine doesn't: $ uname -a Linux jeremy 2.6.15-29-386 #1 PREEMPT Mon Sep 24 17:18:25 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux It looks like I should be able to install a new kernel through Synaptic, but I'm not precisely sure which one to install. The ones that look most promising are named linux-image-2.6.[something]-k7-smp, linux-k7-smp or linux-686-smp, but I'd like to make sure I don't do a misstep here and regret it later. Which package would be best for me to install? Thanks in advance! -- Nathaniel Price "Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?" -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
