Questions tagged [i386]

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Implications of Linux support for AMD Fusion APUs?

As I understand it, the Linux kernel has had good support for Intel and AMD CPUs (pretty obvious since your OS installs and runs fine!). But now that AMD is releasing their new Fusion APUs, is it just a gimmick marketing scheme and can be treated as…
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Really light weight linux for VM no extensions

I need to host a ssh server on a x86-64 Debian squeeze machine with no VT-extensions :( I am using virtlib with qemu (set up and working). I have tried a number of things and non have been perfect, so I was hoping to draw on your experience. I am…
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Linux distribution for the AMD Geode LX 800 (i586)

The manufacturer recommendfs RH9 (ugh) and many of the google search hits come up with comments from 2006/7 which detail xorg problems with the AMD video driver and I'm hoping someone here has had recent experience. I have two questions: Which…
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Is PAE worth it when I have 4GB RAM?

I have 4GB RAM installed on my machine, and I'm considering using all of it (IE, installing PAE-enabled kernel). I heard there's a performance penalty for this, so I wanted to know about other's experiences. Should I proceed, or should I remain…
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System call invokation methods in new kernel

I read that in the newer kernels system calls are invoked using the INT X80 instruction and also using the sysenter instruction. And also the sysenter instruction gives faster invocation as compared to the other method. How could I check which all…
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change interrupt smp_affinity

As you can see below, nvidia is sharing the intrerrupt and the interrupt is using only CPU0, how can I change the interrupt for nvidia, and how can I make it use both CPU's ? Here is an article describing the second question, I can change between…
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AES-NI not passed to guest in Virtualbox

I'm trying to use encryption inside a virtual machine. The problem is that the AES-NI doesn't seem to be passed to the guest virtual machine. I have Vt-x enabled. This is my host cpuinfo: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family…
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Top "id" is using 50-99% of CPU

My i386 Lubuntu install is running with a constantly 100% CPU. Using top I have diagnosed "%id" as using up a lot of CPU, usually between about 50% and 99%. Why is this happening, and how can I stop it?
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amd64 or i386? VirtualBox can't start client VM

My Debian kernel is linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64, and the command uname -m returns x86_64. However, apt-get does get i386 packages (those /var/cache/apt/archives/*_i386.deb), and never gets amd64 package. I want to install virtualbox, but neither…
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Fedora 15 - Limited RAM Access

I have an issue with Fedora 15's available memory. The laptop it is installed on has 4GB of SDRAM, but Fedora only sees 2GB. [njozwiak@calvin xpmc6720]$ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: …
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Where do I find Mandriva netinstall?

Where do I find Mandriva Linux netinstall for i386? Do they even have a Mandriva netinstall?
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Difference between vmlinuz-2.6.32-34-generic and vmlinuz-2.6.32-34-generic-pae

Can someone please tell me the difference between these two vmlinuz images ?
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