[lug] tracking down DVD drive problems

Calvin Dodge caldodge at gmail.com
Sun Feb 10 18:24:45 MST 2008


On Feb 10, 2008 5:27 PM, Michael J. Hammel <mjhammel at graphics-muse.org> wrote:
> Both systems run the same kernel (2.6.23.14-64.fc7) and same distro
> (F7). I'm curious:  isn't this a 64 bit kernel?  I don't think the first
> of these systems is a 64 bit CPU though it appears the second one may
> be, and I know I wasn't running a 64-bit kernel on either system before
> the most recent yum update (are there any known issues with this
> kernel?):

The "64" there is part of the version number, not a declarator of the CPU type.

"uname -p" will tell you the CPU type.

I'm curious - what brand(s) of DVD burners are you using?

Calvin



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