Ubuntu :: What Does It Mean For Processor To Be N-bit
Apr 5, 2010
I have really never thought of this question before up until i was asked by my friend what does it mean for a processor to be 64 bit as opposed to 32 bit? how is it better? sadly for me i wasn't able to answer it. i did a little of googling (i must admit i didn't have much time) and wasn't able to find an answer. What does it mean for a processor to be n-bit, where n = {4, 8, 16, 32, 64}. Aside from knowing that I can operate on larger data values on a 64 bit processor rather than on a 32 bit one, I know nothing more.
View 8 Replies
ADVERTISEMENT
Jan 5, 2010
i have installed ubuntu in my laptop.since i have AMD processor fedora doesnt support AMD processor..the recent version fedora 12 supprots AMD processor.i am doing my final project in ns2 hence it should support tht too!!! Which is the best choice to override ubuntu grub fedora 12 or redhat linux.
View 3 Replies
View Related
Jan 14, 2010
JIt was easy to check in Windows, but I just wanted to know if there's a way to check if Ubuntu is utilizing both cores of my processor (Pentium Core 2 Duo).
View 9 Replies
View Related
Mar 3, 2011
I'm working on this Intel Celeron HP33w Pavillion with 512mb ram and a 180 gb hard drive. Installed xp on it, partitioned half the drive and left the other half blank. xp installed no prob, then installed ubuntu on the second partition letting ubuntu create the partition and swap space (which was 3 gigs) and it installed fine (aside from being incredibly slow to go through the actual install process). Once finally booted into ubuntu with no other programs running aside from the standard ones that start with ubuntu, i added the system monitor to the panel and expanded all the other monitors. Memory was normal, cup average was 100% and cpu usage was 100%. Figured something went wrong with the install so I reinstalled and got the same result. Window xp runs just as fast as it should with 512mb of ram so I'm sort of at a loss as to why ubuntu is eating up all my memory with no programs running.
View 2 Replies
View Related
Jan 13, 2010
I'm very new to this , just got a acer revo 3600 with Linux but there seems to be nothing much on it apart from Internet , don't understand computers at all but am looking for word processor etc. been told to get ubuntu don't know how to or what it is also a bit stuck with the terminology.
View 9 Replies
View Related
Oct 9, 2010
i got a beagleboard which has an ARM processor. rather the compiling my programs from the beagleboard itself, i'd like to use my beefy AMD64 desktop to plow through compilation.how to do a cross compile, or at least set gcc up so that i can do a cross compile. i'm running Ubuntu 10.04 with gcc 4.4.3 when i run: gcc -b arm to tell gcc to compile for arm, it says: gcc: error trying to exec 'arm-gcc-4.4.3': execvp: No such file or directory
View 3 Replies
View Related
Jul 21, 2010
I have an old system, and want to upgrade the MOBO and processor. I am running Ubuntu 10.04 32bit...If I upgrade the MOBO and CPU to a 64 bit system....what will happen?
View 9 Replies
View Related
Aug 27, 2010
Can I set up my system to use a specific processor to do one task, and another processor for normal applications.
Say for example, I'm using a program that relies heavily on your processor, I have a dual core, so I can use one core for that, and another for normal applications.
View 1 Replies
View Related
Oct 20, 2010
I have a Dell Latitude D630 with Nvidia graphics, Dual-Core, 4GB of RAM. I am using Ubuntu 10.10 64bit . The Nvida driver version is 260.19.06.Whenever I walk away from the computer and it prompts for a password to log back in, it is SLOW. It continues to run slowly until I reboot. The fans are running and system monitor shows that Compiz is eating up a LOT of processor time. After a reboot, all is normal. I need a solution that involves as much automation as possible, I want to try to deploy several identical machines in an environment and I can't with this issue still presenting.
View 1 Replies
View Related
Dec 3, 2010
I upgraded my processor two days ago(p4 -> C2D), and ever since then I have been getting segfaults, which are causing my programs to crash randomly. At first I thought it was isolated to one program(deluge), but after searching around I was looking at the /var/log/messages and found a bunch of segfault messages after I installaed the processor. Here is the grep from the messages file:
Code:
Nov 29 12:35:03 Thor kernel: [66065.114231] npviewer.bin[14952]: segfault at 0 ip 00000000f6232ed1 sp 00000000ffe9e6d0 error 4 in libflashplayer.so[f5e93000+b2e000]
Nov 29 12:41:23 Thor kernel: [66445.260799] npviewer.bin[15324]: segfault at 418 ip 00000000f60ddc86 sp 00000000ffb4b928 error 6 in libflashplayer.so[f5e8e000+b2e000]
[Code]...
View 2 Replies
View Related
Dec 31, 2010
Basic Info: Ubuntu 10.10, AMD RM-70 2GHZ Processor, HP G60-120US, Bios F54. I'm unable to scale my processor (either core) using the applet in the menu bar. Every time I try, I select 2GHZ, and re-open; then it's displayed that 500MHZ was selected. I'm unable to pick any speed, the computer has a mind of it's own in that sense. It's essentially stuck at 500MHZ for 98% of the uptime, which makes it impossible to do anything more than web browsing. Ex: I tried watching an HD video, I watched 5 min, and 1,400 out of the 10,000 or so were dropped!
View 1 Replies
View Related
Jan 18, 2011
i am buying a cheap computer for my dad, it will be used for movies, web and maybe some 2d gaming. i wanted to know if a 1.5 ghz processor and 512mb ram runs ubuntu well. i know about xubuntu etc but was after installing full fat gnome ubuntu for him.
View 2 Replies
View Related
Jul 11, 2011
Just started noticing my Processor and RAM are going up to 100% even when idle.I can't see any processes that are using it all up and SWAP starts getting eaten into.
View 3 Replies
View Related
Jan 18, 2010
A friend is trying to rescue some files from his computer because Windows won't boot, so he's making a Live CD. However, he realized that he accidentally downloaded the Intel version of Ubuntu, but he has an AMD processor. Does this matter for a Live session if he's not actually installing anything?
View 2 Replies
View Related
Jan 29, 2010
Recently I am getting problems to open a couple of sites, example: [URL]...Firefox process consumes 70% of the processor when it is open.My flash plugin is sun-java6-jre, ubuntu repositories.Somebody what do know happen? is the flash the responsible ?
View 3 Replies
View Related
Feb 6, 2010
So I have 64bit Ubuntu 9.10 installed on my laptop and I noticed one day on boot that everything I did was running very slowly. Upon cracking open terminal and running top to see what was bogging the system I found that gnome-do was taking up 100% of my processor...
This happens around 50% of the time when I boot I've noticed. Killing the processor and restarting Gnome-Do makes the application behave as it should.
Ideas on why this might be? Just a bad 64bit version in the repos I'm guessing? Might try and compile a new version from source later today.
View 1 Replies
View Related
Mar 8, 2010
I purchased a Sony Vaio with an Intel I3 Processor. I tried to install Ubuntu 9.1 via the CD in Windows.
It loads, then when rebooting into Ubuntu... Nothing.
I tried to boot off the CD and it boots until I click install.. Then nothing.
I tried to install from a flash drive... nothing...
View 9 Replies
View Related
Apr 18, 2010
My Open Office word processor keeps closing after it's been open just a few seconds. I get to paste something I wanted to print into the word processor, and then it closes.
View 8 Replies
View Related
Jun 9, 2010
I am looking to buy a laptop for my college years, so I would like to buy one that will serve me many years ahead. Currently the only laptop I have found is the System76 Serval laptop, but they do not ship to Europe.
Another laptops I have found are the Toshiba A505 series, but they are not currently supported by the latest version of Ubuntu.
I anyone knows of a good laptop (must have Corei7 processor and Nvidia/ATI powerful card fully supported by the proprietray drivers), please share your knowledge here.
View 5 Replies
View Related
Jul 18, 2010
I'm running a machine with a 2.4 Ghz hyper threading processor: because 1.2 ghz sucks nowadays I'm going to turn hyper-threading off and give it a much needed speed bump.Unfortunately, when setting the CPU to it's default 2400 Mhz (200 mhz bus speed) it hangs on boot and the bios gives a warning that the clock speed is incorrect.This is wrong because in hyper threading mode at 1.2 Ghz per core it runs just fine - what is causing the hang? Bios firmware update?
View 4 Replies
View Related
Nov 4, 2010
How can I install (or use if already installed) the Spanish language (Puerto Rico)?
It is not working for me.
I open the OpenOffice.Org Word Processor
I click:
-Tool
-Language
-Spanish (Puerto Rico) (For "Selection" or "For Paragraph" or "For All Text"), and nothing happens.
I am obliged o go online and use some of those "Type Spanish accents" online site to do my Spanish work. But I can't, it is too much because the accents, etc.
Also, I found some packages to download but it says that they are "Authenticated"
View 5 Replies
View Related
Nov 7, 2010
I have learned something that I wanted to share with everyone. I don't know if this has been posted before. I was using a Dell optiplex 270 with a penium 4 processor 3 ghz computer 4g RAM dual processor. I tried to put the new Ubuntu on it because everyone was raving about it. Everytime I put the 10.04 on it, it slowed down and became very sluggish. I then had to reformat it back to 9.10.
I had an extra computer here that I was not using. It was also a Dell but it was an Inspiron 530 with an Intel Celeron CPU 2 ghz and 2g RAM. Well, to my suprise, it works GREAT with Ubuntu 10.04. I have not had one issue with it since I installed the new Ubuntu. In my opinion, it is a processor issue. I don't think that Ubuntu 10.04 works with a Penium 4 processor. It does work GREAT with a Celeron CPU processor.
It has been my understanding that Ubuntu (Linux) was made and has been made for older and new computers. It does seem that the new releases have been made only for the newer computers. Has anyone ever had these types of issues or come to these types of conclusions?
View 9 Replies
View Related
Jul 21, 2010
A processor is very important to me and I'm curious what processor to get for a new computer build. I will be using Ubuntu for most things except iTunes, HD movies, and a few low spec requiring games on Win 7. I am building it as right now I have a half year old netbook that can do most things just fails at game play and movies but it's alright. And I have a desktop with just Ubuntu that's about the same quality but 8 years old. I want to build a computer that will be very fast for the next 4 years enough to get me to college and buy a nice laptop. I am on a small budget of around 500- 750 dollars. I have most things picked out but processor has me stumped. To me processor is a bit tricky to replace and I'd rather get a higher-end one to start and stick with that than buy another CPU two years down the road.
I don't mind upgrading RAM, GPU, and or even the HDD at a later point but I want to get the CPU as close to perfect as possible. First I heard AMD processors tend to be a bit hot. I was wondering what cooler is $50 or less that does a great job at cooling a AMD AM3 socket CPU. I do plan to overclock a very small bit perhaps up to .3 GHz plus max. First I was thinking a nice core i5 at $200 and never really checked anything else. Then, I was thinking a hexa-core at 2.8 GHz I think but decided too much and didn't need six cores. The AMD socket type also supported USB 3.0 which I instantly fell in love with. Then I found a quad core Phenom II x4 black edition at 3.20 GHz for around $160.I liked the core unlocker and it looked incredible. Now I'm rethinking a bit again.
I found a dual-core that is same thing as the other AMD one above except well only two cores. I think that would do me fine I'd I'd save $60 by getting 2 less cores. With the things I use a computer for (Ubuntu, Win7, HD quality playback, minor gaming like Runescape, and small multitasking like openoffice a browser or two and perhaps some pictures, game or movie.) I also want to be able to do this quickly for the next 4 years without a hiccup or at least to a minimum if possible. I really don't want to upgrade CPU once I get that bad boy in there. I also want it ready for higher versions of Windows like Windows 8 is supposedly coming sometime in 2012 I've heard. I just want the best CPU to be fast and efficient, run cool, and work well for me for the next 4 years.
View 6 Replies
View Related
Dec 28, 2010
how does calculate all processor utilization in ubuntu using top command?
View 1 Replies
View Related
Jan 7, 2010
When sending to a typical windows user a text document created in open office what must the file extension be for the MS user to be able to open it.
View 5 Replies
View Related
Feb 8, 2010
In what way I can set the processor scaling to switch automatically on performance while the pc is connected to the AC.
View 4 Replies
View Related
Feb 20, 2010
im not very educated in amd processors, but i think that they are all 64-bit processors.
i downloaded the amd ubuntu 9.10 into my computer, and used the usb maker utility in the system menu. i put in in my new pc (it was given to me), and i tell it to boot into the usb.
then i get this. i am posting a pic.
sorry about the sideways pic. i took it with my phone.
anyway, i get the syslinux boot shell script thingy. i have tried lots of things. linux, vmlinuz, lots of other things i found online. so what im wondering is the exact name of the kernel in ubuntu 9.10 amd version.
View 4 Replies
View Related
May 12, 2010
After installing the 32 bit desktop version 10.04 on vmware 6 and then rebooting ( a number of times) I get the message "the guest operating system has disabled the processor". This doesnt seem to happen when I install the 64bit version though. I have 9.1 running in 32bit versions in vmware and several other operating systems.I am not sure if any of those things would cause this issue but I have read in posts about people having issues with RAID and speed stepping. Hopefully that info can help spmepne point me in the right direction. Thank you.
View 2 Replies
View Related
May 27, 2010
I have 10.04 installed on my Laptop (Dell Latitude D630 with the Nvidia video upgrade). This was a clean install to a hard drive that I let it totally erase and use as it saw fit. I am using the Nvidia driver marked as "current" in the hardware driver settings.
When my laptop screen dims due to inactivity, such as not used for 5 mins or so, it will prompt me for a password to log back in. No big deal. However, when it resumes from this state it is SLOW!! I go to system monitor and see that the process "Compiz" is burning up both of my cores at about 70% or HIGHER. It's not using a significant amount of memory which is strange.From what I have been able to gather Compiz has some responsibilty for the GUI and killing the process to attempt to restart it is a "bad idea".
View 7 Replies
View Related
Oct 31, 2010
i have bought a new system with ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO motherboard and AMD X4 635 processor i have installed Ubuntu UE as operating system when i boot the system a warning that no hard disk is detected appears then another warning appears stating that processor fan is not working and to press F1 to resume but the system boots on pressing F1 is there any problem with this ? is the processor fan really not working ?
View 1 Replies
View Related
