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Re: AMD64 + Sarge i386



Hello,

On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 04:28:01PM +0200, Emil Khatib wrote:
> Hi everyone. I'm using the i386 port of Sarge on an AMD64. I'm trying
> to load the powernow-k8 module, but I get the following error:
> 
> FATAL: Error inserting powernow_k8
> (/lib/modules/2.6.8-2-386/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.ko):
> No such device
 
if you have a newer (socket 939) athlon64, the old and dusty 2.6.8
driver won't recognise it. Try 2.6.11 or 2.6.12 from sid, and make 
sure your mainboard has the latest bios revision. 

> I tried installing the amd64 kernel, but it won't work with the nvidia
> drivers (maybe because there is no headers package for this kernel?).
> As a result of this, X won't start at all.

There are known problems using nvidia drivers with 64bit kernel on 32bit
userland: you need the 64bit kernel module, but the 32bit drivers, but
there are no known reports this works at all. 
I suggest you either go with XFree86 nv driver, or with amd64 sarge
(64bit userland). Or with a k7 kernel, if you need both 32bit userland
and nvidia drivers.

> I tried to load APM, but it failed too:
> 
> FATAL: Error inserting apm
> (/lib/modules/2.6.8-2-386/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/apm.ko): No such
> device

AMD64 mainboards do not have any APM support, you should use ACPI.

Best regards
Frederik Schueler

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