On 10/13/2013 08:47 PM, King Beowulf wrote: > 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. > 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.
I don't remember where I got the idea, but it was back when I was setting up this box with Ubuntu 12.04, back in the spring. Well, I'll have to try it again when the time comes to re-install on this machine. At this point everything works fine, so I'm not concerned about not taking advantage of the 64 bit capability of the machine. And since this machine is the one with the weak capacitors in the power supply (at least that's what it seems to be) I may not bother until I upgrade to a newer box. Thanks for the info. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
