Hi Jonas.
I have quite often had problems with 64 bit versions of many different distros.
I'm presently running an AMD 64 dual but it won't take a 64 bit install.
A lot of distros see an AMD 64 as a single processor for reasons that I have not understood, probably that if one is running a dual core then one has to "tweak" the distro on their own. I have no clue...
as to the onboard GPU conflict I saw that several years ago with an "off the wall" board that would not let one use removeable card, but don't remember the name of the board, or the GPU.
I have also had one that would not allow the use of an audio card.
In both cases the setup in bios had no option for changing the situation.
So.... to get back to the main idea of your post, I always install 32 bit and don't have problems.
woodsmoke
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I feel your pain. It's taken me a couple of days until i found a distro that would go on my old i686 PC which i have started to use again. I only had the option from booting from USB as the CD ROM is defunct. I tried Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian with different bootloaders until finally Kubuntu came to the rescue and booted first time. This is my first time into the world of Linux, so i suppose i must of liberated this old PC of mine
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one more linux user
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Yesterday I converted a friend into using Linux (i.e installed). How much I'd love anyone to start using a Linux OS, I hate to push it down their throat (even if maaany actually would need it ). Far to many think that they never could "learn" Libre Office so they "just have to have MS office" - same goes with Photoshop etc. It sometimes feel that I'm arguing with a 5 year old child who doesn't like this and that food they've never tried, most who wouldn't taste the difference between Libre and M$.
Anyway this friend asked me to get rid of his windows installation (actually for ethical reasons) and convert one of his 3 boxes to Linux, to start with. Easy enough I thought. I downloaded several distributions, Chakra, Kubuntu, LinuxMint, Netrunner, all 64 bit the latest and the greatest. He have a Acer Aspire M5100 (64 bit CPU with a Win 32 bit installed). I thought Mint would be a good distro to start with, and thought I'd promote Kubuntu as a KDE distro with Mint being either Cinnamon or Mate, side by side - Gnome OS and KDE OS.
Even though I find myself competent to wipe and install a OS of any kind I've never - ever - had so much trouble before.
First started with Mint 13 cinnamon on a USB, testing the "CD" gave me rows of rows of flickering text that stated that there was a read error on the disk - ok, a coaster I thought. reinstalled the USB - same thing. Testing Kubuntu the same thing. Then I started to think there was some major issue with his hardware, even though Windows ran like a charm still. A simple job took to long and I had to go. The day after, geared with 32 bit distros I gave it another go, now on CD/DVDs. Mint booted but could not set up the screen, all CLI. I wasn't sure I wanted to hazzle with command install and chop up his harddrive with CLI tools. So I gave Kubuntu a spin from a CD. It booted - "at last!! good 'ol Kubuntu!" Still, I didn't want to install a 32 bit on a 64 bit CPU, so retried with 64 bit Kubuntu - and installer crashed over and over, a new burned CD, MD5 checked and rechecked CDs.
I searched the net and didn't find any trouble (as with prior Kubuntu installer crash bugs) on 12.04. It had to be a hardware issue, it never occurred to me that a Desktop box would have a onboard GPU, this one had a radeon X1250 onboard GPU. These 2 days almost drove me nuts trying to figure out what didn't work, I almost started to question the belief in my sign ...it felt like there was a daemon struggling through my "exorcism" ...or some star coalition that was in junction with the laws of propriety.
By the time I had installed Kubuntu 32 bit on a HDD un-partitioned, I had to leave. At least he's on Kubuntu now (that he thinks looks ugly because it looks "fancy" lol, I said I could make it all CLI if he wanted to ...and he said he wouldn't mind that if he'd known the commands ).
Still not sure why this hardware didn't accept the 64 bit - due to the onboard GPU? or why the vesa drivers didn't work on Mint?
....Guess there's quite a lot more to learn for me still
I will split he's HDD and let him try something else beside Kubuntu/KDE, and it'll give me some time to research the GPU onboard functionality and see Mint in action (I don't want it on my boxes due to Mono dependencies) .. and hopefully I'll stare that daemon straight in the face and drive him out - "(Bill) Gatan - I command you - by the powers of the GPL - leave this piece of free hardware!"
Anyway - long story short - "one more liberated".
best regards
Jonas
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