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  1. 01-11-2007 #1
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    Dual Processors in Etch/Testing

    First time poster here:

    I just installed Debian etch (uname -a output):

    Linux bcm-7-37 2.6.17-2-486 #1 Wed Sep 13 15:56:30 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux

    I have two processors, but only one is being used

    /proc/cpuinfo confirms this.

    Did I miss something during installation? How do I configure it so both processors are being used?
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    Just make sure you use a SMP kernel, you can install it like that :
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    apt-get install linux-image-2.6-smp
    or something similar.

    You can search for the exact name like that :
    Code:
    apt-cache search linux-image 2.6 smp
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    i did the search

    linux-image-2.6-686-smp - Linux 2.6 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4 SMP - transition package
    linux-image-2.6-k7-smp - Linux 2.6 image on AMD K7 SMP - transition package

    but I was under the impression that the etch release did not have seperate images for SMP (see http://wiki.debian.org/NewInEtch) and that the SMP support was built in
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    Yes, you are right, I forgot about that. That's why those packages are transitional package.

    So you can use :
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    apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686
    because the 486 one is not SMP enabled.
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  5. 01-12-2007 #5
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    I got it working.

    Since I have the processors are AMD Athlons, I installed

    Code:
    linux-image-2.6-k7-smp
    which has as dependents

    Code:
    linux-image-2.6-k7
linux-image-2.6.18-3-k7
    And that was it. A quick update of the nvidia driver and everything was gravy.

    Thanks for the help
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