Dual Proc's working?

[djnifos]

I just installed FC2 on my dual AMD MP 2100 machine. However, I am very new to Linux and it appears to only see one processor, I've checked system monitor, but it only has one of the processors on it. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-7DPXDW. If someone could help me find/enable my second processor, it would be greatly appreciated.
A. Foster

[cybrjackle]

run

 uname -a

&

cat /proc/cpuinfo

and post what you have back.


When you boot up, do you have 2 kernels to choose from?

default kernels are:

Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358smp)
Fedora Core-up (2.6.5-1.358)

You should see those when you first boot, choose smp.

[Corvash]

The default kernel provided is a uni-processor kernel, there is an SMP kernel you can install that will use both processors.

Not sure where you'll find it in the GUI package manager, but it will be kernel-smp. If you can't find it there, then as root find the kernel-smp rpm on your Fedora Core CDs or do a yum install kernel-smp to download and install the latest (grabbing the latest may be a good idea anyhow).

[djnifos]

uname -a result: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.8-1.521smp #1 SMP Mon Aug 16 09:25:06 EDT 2004 i 686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
cat resultrocessor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 6
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) MP 2100+
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 1733.641
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mp mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 3407.87

processor : 1
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 6
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) MP
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 1733.641
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mp mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 3457.02


I have four versions of thekernel, really two releases each of regular and smp, and I am running smp. They obviously are both there, but how do I view them in system monitor?

[djnifos]

I almost forgot, my Intellimouse Explorer only uses the top buttons and the wheel, I read somewhere how to change it, and when I edited xorg.conf to do just that, I rendered my computer unbootable, at least for someone who was unable to revert the file to its orginal state using bash commands...

[cybrjackle]

As you can see, your running SMP