On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 04:58:17 -0700 "Michael M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 12:40 -0700, Bill Thompson wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:13:23 +0200 > > Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Etch/i386 also comes with an AMD64 kernel package. It should run fine > > > with a 32 bit userspace environment. > > > > I was confused about that. I tried the Etch i386 linux-image-2.6-amd64 > > kernel last night, but ran into weird module problems. I wasn't sure > > of it was a bug or if I was using a 64-bit kernel on a 32-bit system. > > Running the system on linux-image-2.6-486 got rid of the module issues. > > > > Is the linux-image-2.6-amd64 package truly compiled for a 32-but user > > space? > > > > > I've been using linux-image-2.6-amd64 for a few months (in Etch, with a > 32-bit user environment) and haven't had any problems. I guess we must > be using different modules. > > Originally, Etch installed the -486 image. Some time ago I switched to > the -k7 image, then to the -amd64. All have worked without issue. > Does anyone have any instructions on nvidia using amd64 kernel on etch i386 userspace? I am trying the "debian way" from http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers but fail with errors on conversion from elf32-i386 to elf64-x86-64 on the m-a auto-install nvidia step. /Andreas Rönnquist [EMAIL PROTECTED]
