On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 13:49 -0400, fred smith wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:26:25PM -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > > > I've got an Intel D865GBFL that I purchase from Daktech in March 2006. > > It still runs, but I'm stuck on F14. > > I haven't been able to get F16 to install or F17 to run right. > > It uses a pentium 4, so some think its ancient. > > in recent RHEL (haven't investigated Fedora, but it may be the same) > RH is providing ONLY the PAT kernel, which means of course, your > CPU must support PAT. I suppose it's possible that a 6 year-old > P4 may not. > > I'm running a newer AMD processor here, so this may not apply to > your CPU, but when I do "cat /proc/cpuinfo" I get (among other things) > this output: > > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc nonstop_tsc pni cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate [8] > > which lists pae near the start of the list. I'd suspect you could tell > whether your P4 supports it or not by doing the same. > > Fred > > -- > ---- Fred Smith -- fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------- > "And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, > Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government there will be no end. He > will reign on David's throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding > it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever." > ------------------------------- Isaiah 9:7 (niv) ------------------------------ I'm running F17 PAE kernel on a Dell Inspirion 1000 (2ghz Celleron) I've chosen XFCE as my desktop. May be your desktop choice is too fat. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
