Re: em64t

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

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On 08/09/07 15:39, fagogue@free.fr wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm trying to get the best of my machine based on intel core2 (6550), which is
> compliant with em64t debian arch (at least I thought...) but there is only a
> amd64 install available, which doesn't want to run on Intel machine...
> 
> Therefore, I've started with a x386 architecture debian install, then install a
> em64t kernel, which runs fine, despite of the hybrid install.
> 
> problems comes to fit my nvidia graphic card (7600 GT ), between a nvidia-glx
> driver based on x86 arch, and a nvidia-kernel to match the x64_64 (em64t)
> kernel.
> 
> when I try to compile the nvidia kernel, error says "ld" link editor cannot
> match elf-x86 nvidia-glx with a elf-x86_64 linker. It doesn't want
> nvidia-glx-ia32 neither, because it is a i386 debian install.
> 
> These days, I use a kernel 2.6.22.1-686 on a debian i386 install, with
> nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-686, and it all works fine as far as flight gear
> goes.
> 
> But if I can get a x86_64 (em64t) kernel with nvidia compiled for x86_64, that
> is if it is doable, I'd love to for the sake of it. And I'm sure (I hope that
> is) there is a way to get a full em64t system on my machine...
> 
> Thanks for helping if you can

You're mixing arches.  em64t *is* the -amd64 architecture, which,
obviously, isn't i386 (-686).

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!

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