Posts by horriblicious

Quote from Klojum

I thought AMD was basically the founder of 64-bti instructions in chips, so even a Sempron should work with LibreELEC => Sempron - Wikipedia

A bigger problem is likely the (onboard) graphics card.

I have a very early Sempron so not 64-bit. IIRC, both Intel and AMD were trying to extend the instruction sets (I am not that technical, so someone can correct my technical description faux-pas) at the same time. Both came out and everyone that mattered (except Intel) preferred the AMD implementation. After some understandable kicking and screaming, Intel agreed and implemented the AMD version for 64-bit. So not the founder, but they developed a better (faster? cheaper? simpler?) version.

I looked at the same Wikipedia article and then checked the hardware. Sempron 2600+. That's a Socket-A 32-bit chip (confirmed via a 2005-ish version of SiSoft Sandra running on WinXP). I don't think any of the builds here are for 32-bit Linux, so I expect failure with the LE7.03 build... and failure is what I have.

Hi Szvan - Interesting idea. I have not tried that, so let me give that a try...

Ah well. While things are a little dull, it sounds like I am taking on too much effort for too little gain. I also think the CPU is old enough to be 32-bit only. Too bad. To the scrap heap it goes, and I have already started looking at other hardware, like the Pi. Thanks for your replies.

ATI x1300 series card. AGP card (I forgot those even existed). SIS 848A chipset.

CPU is an AMD Sempron 2600. It is an ATI graphics card but I would have to check for the actual model #. SIS chipset.

I have successfully (I think) loaded the USB stick to boot LibreELEC. It is, of course, not working. All I get is a blinking cursor in the upper-left screen. It is a functional, but old PC. How old? Motherboard is using an AMIBIOS circa 2005. (It does have the option of booting from a USB drive and that is the primary boot device setup in the BIOS). But it is a "BIOS". Is BIOS why this is not working? If so, what can I do other than changing hardware?