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MasquedAvenger
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 Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 9:47 pm Post subject: AMD64 and the Nvidia Drivers |
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Hey everyone. I would imagine the answer is yes, partly because searching didn't turn up anything negative, and also because there is a part of the Nvidia drivers that is compiled for your kernel, but I will be able to use the Nvidia Binary drivers once I install my AMD64 CPU, right? The reason I ask is that I know you can't link a 32-bit library into a 64-bit application, and since X.org will be compiled as a 64-bit application, I want to make sure that that won't cause a problem because I'm limited to 32-bit instructions in the nvidia drivers (which I'm hoping isn't the case.)
James
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i92guboj
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It is not only a compiled part, the binary part for x86_64 is also different, and compiled for this arch. You can check yourself if you have and amd64 environment with the same emerge command:
| Code: | # emerge -fp nvidia-drivers
These are the packages that would be fetched, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/distfiles/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-8762-pkg2.run ftp://ftp.caliu.info/pub/gentoo/distfiles/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-8762-pkg2.run http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/1.0-8762/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-8762-pkg2.run
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As you can deduct from the name of the file (note the "x86_64" string), nvidia provides precompiled stuff for x86_64, and the rest, the kernel module, is compiled during the emerge process.
Besides that, I am a happy nvidia user since quite some years, right now, running flawlesly with a gf6200 and in amd64. No problem so far. |
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