Re: AMD64 + Sarge i386

[Emil Khatib <fenomenoxp2@gmail.com>]

Well i've been looking in my bios and there is an option to activate APM.
Anyway, is there any way than I can make the computer to sleep (as I
did before with apm -s) with ACPI?
I find nothing in the manuals!
On 7/30/05, Frederik Schueler <fs@lowpingbastards.de> wrote:
> 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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