Just starting to build a new machine and its an amd64 based box. Is it going to be worth while to try the 64bit version of the new release or just stick with the tried and true. I figure that I am ging to have a few issues anyway and I am useing an NVidia force4 chipset board pcie, and sli capable, I will not attempt sli for a while though. My old hardware was really legacy stuff and had no issues at all but came across new hardware on the cheap and thought that I would try and upgrade, hope I'm not getting into upgrade hell cause I've been totaly MS free for 5 years now and won't go back.

I just built a new AMD64 box about two months ago, used a pretty new mobo because I used an AM2 socket processor. I don't use Mandriva, but FC5 (32-bit) and Gentoo (64-bit) work fine. The only problem I have is with lm_sensors, but that's not a big deal to me.

I've built 2 64-bit Linux boxes (3400 & 3800) and building one for a friend (3800). All with Mandriva 2006. All system have 1G of mem & Nvidia Cards.

I've run into 3 problems. I've been able to work around 2 of the 3.
These system blows the doors of my 2.6g P4

1. Installed the 32bit version of xine. Couldn't play asf or wmv.

2. Install 32 bit version of avidemux just would work otherwise.

3. Still can't get gnucash to run. Luckey my server is still 32 bit & I just run it remothy of it.

Where can I get the 2007 64 bit version for testing.

Not a member

qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/main/cookermirrors should bring you to a page where you can select a local mirror.

Hi, I've just upgraded from mdv2006.0 to mdv2007 64 bit with a hardware upgrade from amd 3200+ socket 462,

gigabyte ga7n400pro2 motherboard, 1 gig ddr400 and agp8x ati 9800pro. to amd64 3500 and an asus a8vmx mobo. Same mem

and graphics and hd's (sata x 2 and pata x 1, plus the cdrw and floppy). I've had no real problems except that

mdv2006.0 did not support the sata controller on the new mobo., Just as well I'd started to down load 2007 before it

went off.

I still haven't setup the wireless card(DLink GWL G510) or the ati 3D graphics.

But evey thing else seems to be OK!

Came across this 32 vs 64 bits recently,
at least it is an introduction to the topic
Linux.com | What you should (and shouldn't) expect from 64-bit Linux

I have an AMD64 Mandriva 2006 x86_64 server, for about a year now. Has a ASUS motherboard with the nVidia nForce4 chipset and nVidia graphics card. Everything seems to work well, I ran into one problem I resolved. I use LDAP as the authentication and I am running VMWare Workstation 5.5 on it. This issue was that VMWare is 32-bit and expected 32-bit LDAP libraries, and I only had 64-bit LDAP libraries so until I also installed the 32-bit version of the libraries VMWare would refuse to start because it could not authenticate against LDAP. A little disappointed in the Kiosk being 32-bit only right now, looking forward to Mandriva 2007 next week.