Re: Debian AMD64

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

On 01/11/09 15:33, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Sun January 11 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > > The .run files are containers,
> > > 18 meg shell scripts..
> > More than that!
> >
> > # ls -1 NVID*177.82*run
> > NVIDIA-Linux-x86-177.82-pkg1.run
> > NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.82-pkg2.run
>
> I think you meant ls -l
> ls -l NVID*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 pbc  pbc  19865216 2008-07-08 08:00 
> NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.09-pkg1.run
> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc  pbc  19869479 2008-08-06 19:20 
> NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.12-pkg1.run

That's two different 32-bit versions.

> wait, you have 177.82 ??? 

Yes.  The 32- and 64-bit "editions" of the same version of the 
binary driver.

> > > I'm assuming this is the part that needs to come from the amd64 build?
> > I don't remember that part.  Are you running a 64-bit kernel yet?
> no, just getting my ducks in a row first.. I did get the kernel & header files 
> and updated grub, I just haven't rebooted YET..

You'll need to get the NVIDIA versions from nvidia.com, since the 
packaged versions don't support this.

> > $ uname -m
> > x86_64
> uname -m
> i686
>
> ls -l /boot
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   88589 2008-07-18 16:22 config-2.6.25-2-686
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   91651 2008-12-15 17:43 config-2.6.26-1-686
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   85599 2008-12-15 17:47 config-2.6.26-1-amd64
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 2009-01-10 15:59 grub
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6793424 2008-08-18 07:39 initrd.img-2.6.25-2-686
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6795167 2008-08-15 15:56 initrd.img-2.6.25-2-686.bak
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7217562 2008-12-20 08:40 initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6943610 2008-10-06 09:15 initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686.bak
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7290666 2009-01-10 15:58 initrd.img-2.6.26-1-amd64
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   20068 2007-12-04 17:21 memdisk
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  103212 2008-03-24 16:08 memtest86.bin
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  124152 2008-10-02 21:27 memtest86+.bin
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  918470 2008-07-18 16:22 System.map-2.6.25-2-686
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  928053 2008-12-15 17:43 System.map-2.6.26-1-686
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1225518 2008-12-15 17:47 System.map-2.6.26-1-amd64
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1484448 2008-07-18 16:21 vmlinuz-2.6.25-2-686
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1505712 2008-12-15 17:43 vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1755088 2008-12-15 17:46 vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-amd64


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Ron Johnson, Jr.
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