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Re: Current Debian Distro On amd64 processors



On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 00:30, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> "Chris Dean" <chris@christopher-dean.co.uk> writes:
> > Has anyone ever had any problems running the current (32-bit) stable release
> > on any of amd's 64 bit processors?
>
> Woody works fine, even with a 64 bit kernel. Sarge/sid doesn't work
> with a 64 bit kernel due to some bugs in the 32 bit emulation.
> You can still use sarge with a 64 bit kernel but some things fail in
> strange ways, like df. Hopefully this will be fixed one of these days.
> 
> When running a 32 bit kernel the only problem you should have is the
> age of stable. You might have to update the kernel for some newer
> drivers.

Also, Radeon DRI (XFree86) does not work with 32-bit kernel & sid. At
least, not on my MSI K8T Master2-FAR (K8T800 VIA Chipset).

-s

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