Comment 13 for bug 500686

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 7:13 PM, daves111 wrote:
> ok, I will test Lucid for you. Is there a chance that a problem is that
> I don't have a real 64 bit amd?

Nope, the name amd64 is there only for historical reasons. The
platform was invented by AMD while Intel had another 64-bit
architecture (lpia), but intel has since adopted AMDs platform. I must
admit I was also confused by the name at first.

On the other hand, it shouldn't be a problem to use i386 either, as
amd64 is backwards compatible. I think i386 is currently recommended
for desktop systems and amd64 for servers, but I'm no authority on
this.

If you feel that you have time and Lucid still freezes, you may try
with xorg-edgers. That amounts to adding two lines to
/etc/apt/sources.list and running `sudo apt-get dist-update; sudo
apt-get dist-upgrade`. That gives you a bleeding edge ubuntu (with the
most recent bug fixes, but also the most recent bugs). It is also a
very useful datapoint to know if this freezes (unless Lucid without it
does not). xorg-edgers is at
https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa .

Feel free to decline the last test if you think it sounds like it is
too much for you.