On 10/13/2013 03:15 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: > When I was setting up my current desktop, a Gateway with a 64 bit > processor, I remember learning that the nVidia driver did not work with > 64 bit, but would work with 32 bit. And so that is what I am running on > this machine. This was back in March, 2013. > > I'm running the 64 bit version of Mythbuntu on my Toshiba Satellite. No > nVidia there. When I get around to installing it on a box with an nVidia > card in it, will I run into the same issue I had with the Gateway, or > has that been resolved since March? >
Nvidia has had 64bit versions of their proprietary binary drivers available for many years - I use it on Slackware64. I don't know why you were told, or think, that Nvidia 64bit drivers are unavailable. This might be (lazy) fail of your Linux distribution package managers. There is no reason any of the 64bit Ubuntu flavors should not have current Nvidia drivers for both CPU architectures. For newer Linux kernels, if the built-in nouveau driver is inadequate for your needs, you can blacklist that driver and download the appropriate version for you CPU and GPU from here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html The download is a script + driver that you run as root (or via sudo) in the command line that steps you through the install process. This installation works ok 99% of the time as long as your distro didn't do anything freaky with library locations. Have fun. Ed _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
