Hi,
I am having a problem of installing SL5 on my laptop with AMD processor.
The installation completes, well i think, but then it does not work fine: it makes weird sounds and some programs crashes. I think some of the packages might have not installed properly.
So is SL supported in AMD-based laptops?

cheers

Which laptop ?

Please show the outputs from these commands :
lspci -vnn | grep -i vga
lspci -vnn | grep audio

And which programs are crashing ?
..

SL is RHEL with very few modifications(like CentOS) so yes, AMD processors are supported.
The "laptops" is a different ball of wax, so to speak, especially since you did not provide any information about your laptop. :|
Check RHEL site for HCL if SL does not have a list.

Hi,
knudfl, your commands return nothing! But below I have given the outputs of cat /proc/cpuinfo and lspci commands respectively:

*******cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 17
model : 3
model name : AMD Athlon(tm)X2 DualCore QL-66
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 1100.000
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc nonstop_tsc pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8legacy 3dnowprefetch osvw ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate [8]
bogomips : 2751.92

processor : 1
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 17
model : 3
model name : AMD Athlon(tm)X2 DualCore QL-66
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 1100.000
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc up nonstop_tsc pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8legacy 3dnowprefetch osvw ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate [8]
bogomips : 2751.92


******lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (int gfx)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0)
00:07.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 3)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 4)
00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 3a)
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:14.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI2 Controller
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Mobile K10 [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] HyperTransport Configuration (rev 40)
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Mobile K10 [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Mobile K10 [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Mobile K10 [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] Link Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS780M/RS780MN [Radeon HD 3200 Graphics]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device 4357 (rev 10)
06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)


One other thing is that when i connect the mouse through the usb port, it does not work although the flash disks do work.
My laptop is Compaq 615.

cheers

try /sbin/lspci....

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