Opensuse 10.1 on D620

Just as a short note: I did an installation of Opensuse 10.1 64bit on my new Dell machine (T7200, 2GB Ram). I had severe issues with keyboard repeat (trying to type ls gives "llllllllssss"), strange cracking sounds and weird scrolling functionality in Firefox.
These things are reported elsewhere on the internet for 64bit installations with the smp kernel.

Since the issue wasn't easy to fix (not even a kernel upgrade helped), I ended up doing a clean install of 10.1 32 bit. Everything's great now except for some minor CPU frequency scaling issue.

 

Hello,

I have just finished installing on my new D620/T7200 as well, and gone through the same problems. I also ended up reinstalling the default kernel instead of the SMP that was initially chosen by the installer.

However, it seems we are losing out on some of the capabilities of the processor.

From the fact that many other people seem to have installed on D620s successfully (even with SMP), and yours is the only Core 2 Duo machine (the others AFAIR were all pre-september core duos) I conclude that the processor may have something to do with this..

we should really stay on the ball with this..

 

IMO, installing the default kernel is really a bad option since it does not make efficient use of the two processor cores.

Also, note that I only had the problem when I chose the 64bit installation (this is the default choice of the Suse installer). Core Duo--as opposed to Core 2 Duo--owners do not have the option of installing the 64bit version since their processor does not support it. But the problems mentioned in the previous post seem only to appear on x86_64 installs so no wonder nobody with Core Duo had the problem..

So I now have a 32bit installation with the SMP kernel running without any problems.

 

installing the 32bit version is okay. 64bit has no real advantages on desktops/notebooks, except support for more than 4 GB ram. instead, it can produce much problems and many apps won't run (e.g. macromedia flash).

 

has anyone gotten the i945 GM graphics chip in the D620 to go into a dual head situation with opensuse 10.1, if so could you share your xorg.conf file. Thanks.