NVidia driver failure on new system

[Alex Volkov]

There's really not much point in that. If it is possible it's better
to run amd64 userspace and for all the 32 bit applications, install
lib-ia32-* libraries.

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 06:44:38PM -0400, Thomas Milne wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Lennart Sorensen <
>> lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>> > On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 03:44:08PM -0400, Thomas Milne wrote:
>> > >  joehill at rebelone:~$ dpkg --list | grep linux-headers
>> > > ii  linux-headers-2.6-amd64                       2.6.39+35
>> > >         Header files for Linux 2.6-amd64 (meta-package)
>> > > ii  linux-headers-2.6.39-1-amd64                  2.6.39-1
>> > >        Header files for Linux 2.6.39-1-amd64
>> > > ii  linux-headers-2.6.39-1-common                 2.6.39-1
>> > >        Common header files for Linux 2.6.39-1
>> > >
>> > > but
>> > >
>> > > joehill at rebelone:~$ uname -r
>> > > 2.6.32-5-686
>> > >
>> > > So...I either need linux-headers 2.6.32-5 or kernel 2.6.39-1 right?
>> >
>> > Yes.  unstable should be running 2.6.39-1.  2.6.32-5 is not the right
>> > kernel.
>> >
>> > linux-image-2.6-amd64 should depend on the current one for you.
>> > Upgrade and reboot.
>> >
>> >
>> What's weird though is that previously I was running 2.6.32-5-686. So
>> shouldn't I now be running 2.6.39-1-686? not amd64?
>>
>> The only one close to that though is 2.6.39-1-686-pae, and that doesn't boot
>> either. I am TOTALLY confused.
>
> What does 'dpkg --print-architecture' tell you?
>
> On a number of systems I use that would say i386, meaning it is a
> 32bit install.  I still run the amd64 kernel to take advantage of more
> than 3GB ram efficiently (the bigmem/pae kernel does it inefficiently,
> and the regular 686 kernel doesn't do it at all).  I would run an amd64
> kernel on any system that can wether the user space is 32 or 64bit.
> It is the best choice either way.
>
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