[ale] How do I install 32 bit SuSe 9.3 on a 64 bit system?

[Jim Lynch]

It's a ati radeon xpress 200m.  As I said SuSe 9.3 runs fine in 32 bit 
mode.  From what I've been able to read on the web no one has had 
success in getting this thing to run fast, but then the only graphics I 
use are web pages and they display just fine.  I don't play games, I 
don't play DVDs, I just use it for program development, general surfing 
and email so I have no idea why I'd want a blisteringly fast graphics 
display.   I have no need for 64 bits either. Except for memory access, 
I could still be running on 16 bit hardware and be happy. 8)

I wouldn't be surprised you're right on about the ACPI issues.  That's 
discussed a lot on the web wrt this family of notebooks.

Jim.
Dow Hurst wrote:

>Jim,
>You should bother for the better graphics, especially if you have Nvidia 
>graphics.  What type of graphics came in the Presario?  Is it ATI, 
>Intel, or Nvidia?  If you have ACPI issues such as not being able to 
>shutdown by software command or if suspend to disk won't work correctly, 
>then there are some ACPI fixes in newer kernels that might help.  
>Several HP laptops were affected by some changes in the ACPI code so 
>9.3's default kernel may or may not work for you.  I am running SUSE 
>10.1 with a special ACPI fixed kernel from the main suse ftp repository 
>posted by Thomas Renninger.  He is a SUSE employee and works on ACPI 
>related issuse for Novell/Suse.  This fix is for some systems that under 
>the normal 2.6.13 kernel would not turn off after the shutdown command 
>finished.  You'd have to press and hold the power button to get the 
>system to shutdown.  Look on the GaTech suse repository for the people 
>section for trenn.  Your initial install problems lead me to think you 
>have a basic underlying ACPI issue.
>Dow
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