openSUSE 32 bit on a 64 bit system

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#1

Hello Guys,

I’ve just installed openSUSE 11.1 32 bit on my 64 bit system. I want to know if this will produce any conflicts?? especially in drivers? because i cannot install NVIDIA drivers on my system. is it a result of that?!

Why i did this ? because we had the 64 bit on the computer, but it had kde 4.4.4 with itself and it was TOO unstable. ( everything crashed because of segmentation fault in libqt).

Further more, getting more help, we use this computer ( intel quad core, 8 GB ram, 1.5 GB Nvidia ), as a server. HTTP server and it also controls our serial-port devices. Any suggestions which version of openSUSE would be the most stable for this system!?

thanks alot ,

Anoosh

#2

I have installed 32bit openSUSE on modern hardware. Works fine for me. There should be no problem with it. Just make sure you have a -pae enabled kernel, to make use of your 8GB RAM.

My preferred version would be 11.2 right now. 11.3 later on, once I’ve gathered some experience with it.

#3

You would need to install the 32 bit NVIDIA driver.

#4

would you please tell me what do you mean by `-pae’ ?? does it mean with PAE or without it?

Philosophically, the -' sign can be interpreted as minus’ or ‘dash’. :smiley: :smiley:

#5

PAE allows a 32 bit address space to access more then 4G of memory. The Desktop kernel I believe has PAE but there is also a pae version of the kernel. it has -pae in the name.

#6

Philosophically, the -' sign can be interpreted as minus’ or ‘dash’.

You are right. Sorry for the confusion. I meant a kernel with pae enabled. The dash came from the fact, that the pae kernel has the letters ‘-pae’ appended.

#7

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No, nothing really cares.

Good luck.

On 08/09/2010 10:06 AM, anooshr wrote:
>
> Hello Guys,
>
> I’ve just installed openSUSE 11.1 32 bit on my 64 bit system. I want to
> know if this will produce any conflicts?? especially in drivers? because
> i cannot install NVIDIA drivers on my system. is it a result of that?!
>
> Why i did this ? because we had the 64 bit on the computer, but it had
> kde 4.4.4 with itself and it was TOO unstable. ( everything crashed
> because of segmentation fault in libqt).
>
> Further more, getting more help, we use this computer ( intel quad
> core, 8 GB ram, 1.5 GB Nvidia ), as a server. HTTP server and it also
> controls our serial-port devices. Any suggestions which version of
> openSUSE would be the most stable for this system!?
>
> thanks alot ,
>
> Anoosh
>
>
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#8

64-bit should be just as stable.

Have you confirmed your PC is in good health?

I would recommend you run memtest for at least 1 complete pass. If the screen turns red due to memory errors, stop the test and post.