TonyT wrote:May or may not be related, but afaik the T500s use a Centrino core 2 processor. If so then why are you not using the amd (64bit) kernel?
I was always under the impression this was a 32-bit CPU...it won't run Windows 10, and when I've tried to use 64-bit live on this machine, it fails with incorrect architecture warning.
However, you might be correct!
...produces:
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Architecture: i686
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 2
On-line CPU(s) list: 0,1
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 2
Socket(s): 1
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
CPU family: 6
Model: 23
Model name: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8400 @ 2.26GHz
Stepping: 6
CPU MHz: 800.000
CPU max MHz: 2267.0000
CPU min MHz: 800.0000
BogoMIPS: 4521.66
Virtualization: VT-x
Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf eagerfpu pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 lahf_lm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority dtherm
I am confused! Will have to investigate this now!
It seems as though it is 64-bit capable.
Which raised another question...is it possible to convert 32bit Debian into 64bit Debian?
https://wiki.debian.org/Migrate32To64Bit
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grep -q '^flags.* lm ' < /proc/cpuinfo && echo yes
Will see what this yields first. Currently creating a live 64-bit Debian USB to test that first.
Thanks.