I successfully installed openSUSE-13.2 on an old PC whose CPU (32-bit athlon-1150) has no SSE2 support. The openSUSE-13.2 Beta-1 install had failed previous (as noted here in this thread and here in this bug report that 32-bit installations fail with YaST error. That bug report was closed in lieu of another (bug 872908)](http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=872908) to track the problem. There was also a very active thread on the mailing list debating whether such old hardware as this should continue have to support. In the end it was agreed to support such old hardware for openSUSE-13.2 version, and a fix was applied.
The fix was successful in that my install eventually was successful.
I did have a failure during install, with what appeared to be a kernel error. I obtained this error shortly after the install config MMI/GUI settings were set and when the applications were installing:
http://thumbnails110.imagebam.com/36320/5e4c47363192338.jpg](http://www.imagebam.com/image/5e4c47363192338)
where this was on the top of the same page (illustrating kernel version ) …
http://thumbnails112.imagebam.com/36320/9c9be5363192342.jpg](http://www.imagebam.com/image/9c9be5363192342)
I took a look at one of the install terminals but saw nothing that indicated a failure to me…
http://thumbnails112.imagebam.com/36320/478cfa363192343.jpg](http://www.imagebam.com/image/478cfa363192343)
This is OLD hardware, I thought it might be a DVD read error (as the DVD reader is old) or someother problem associated with PC age, so I decided not to waste time, but rather I immediately rebooted and tried a Fail Safe install. That appeared to work, although in the very first reboot at the end of the install I obtained this totally unreadable display (and the PC simply hung during boot) :
http://thumbnails111.imagebam.com/36320/498a4a363192344.jpg](http://www.imagebam.com/image/498a4a363192344)
I obtained that screen when booting nominally and also when booting with SAFE Settings. So I then embarked on an effort to try and see if there was a boot code that I could modify to get the PC to boot. In the end, I used SAFE SETTINGs but removed the ‘x11failsafe’ and instead applied 'brokenmodules=nouveau" and the PC booted to the LXDE desktop. I am not convinced the “brokenmodules=nouveau” was the fix to get this first boot to work. Once it was booted I noted that the TEXT setting applied for the screen display when booting is obsolete. I went into the GRUB2 menu, and removed the various kernel code that the SAFE install had applied, and in doing so the Boot manager also applied the setting “vga=normal” and I believe it is that kernel boot code that allows the boot to continue nominally. The ‘TEXT’ setting is apparently depreciated.
The PC now runs great with this 13.2 and compared to the older 12.3 I also have on this PC the 13.2 appears to boot quicker and also execute quicker (mostly). I note YaST runs slower, but that may be because I changed the LXDE YaST to use QT instead of GTK.
The above was on a Test partition on this old PC, and I plan next to install the 13.2 on this same PC, replacing its main functional partition (which has 12.3 on it). I suspect then if I obtain the same kernel installation error, I will know if the problem is repeateable (and not just a failed DVD read problem with the old DVD drive on this PC).
inxi -F output detailing the very old hardware that is running :
oldcpu@linux-spsv:~> inxi -F
System: Host: linux-spsv Kernel: 3.16.6-2-default i686 (32 bit) Desktop: LXDE (Openbox 3.5.2)
Distro: openSUSE 13.2 (Harlequin)
Machine: Mobo: MSI model: MS-6380E v: 1.0 Bios: American Megatrends v: 07.00T date: 04/02/01
CPU: Single core AMD Athlon (-UP-) cache: 256 KB clocked at 1150 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]
Display Server: X.Org 1.16.1 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,nv,vesa) Resolution: 1680x1050@59.88hz
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NV34 GLX Version: 1.5 Mesa 10.3.0
Audio: Card-1 Ensoniq 5880B [AudioPCI] driver: snd_ens1371 Sound: ALSA v: k3.16.6-2-default
Card-2 VIA VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller driver: snd_via82xx
Network: Card-1: Realtek RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter driver: 8139too
IF: enp0s8 state: unknown speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:50:fc:5f:ba:6d
Card-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR5212/AR5213 Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath5k
IF: wlp0s10 state: down mac: 00:11:95:91:76:f5
Drives: HDD Total Size: 484.0GB (1.6% used) ID-1: /dev/sda model: ST3320620A size: 320.1GB
ID-2: /dev/sdb model: Maxtor_6Y160P0 size: 163.9GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 25G used: 3.7G (16%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb1
ID-2: /home size: 50G used: 145M (1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb5
ID-3: swap-1 size: 1.04GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda3
ID-4: swap-2 size: 2.85GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdb3
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 46.5C mobo: 41.0C
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 4192 fan-2: 0
Info: Processes: 117 Uptime: 0:35 Memory: 343.7/2016.4MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.1.95-4
Or make do with the OS driver
