[wellylug] AMD64 & Linux

[Darryl Hamilton]

Geraint Jones wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a decent distro that will run on my new AMD64 I am
> having hell with RH EL, the board is nForce3 based and once RHEL has
> loaded the nForce3 Driver the machine freezes, unless I disable APIC in
> the BIOS, however if I disable APIC in the BIOS WinXP refuses to boot,
> so I am thinking of ditching RHEL unless anyone knows a way round the
> APIC problem
> 
> And no I cant ditch WinXP, as I need it to run various software

Well, I'm personally running Slackware on mine (3500+), with the 2.6.10 
kernel.

I haven't tried previous versions of the kernel, because this one works, 
but I can probably list the config settings I have if you want to try it 
directly.

d.