My box should be 64 bit...

davidguygc · 05-20-2007, 06:51 PM

Hi, I am trying to make sure that my computer is running in 64-bit, and when I tried to update an Nvidia Driver, it said:

Code:

ERROR: this .run file is intended for the
Linux-ia64 platform, but you appear to be
running on Linux-x86.  Aborting installation.

I set the kernel as best as I could to run 64-bit, but I am still getting this error. What should I do? My computer specs are in my signature.

vtel57 · 05-20-2007, 06:54 PM

Did you install a 64 bit Linux distribution (x86_64.iso)?

davidguygc · 05-20-2007, 07:30 PM

I have no idea, I am using Slackware 11 -current

jay73 · 05-20-2007, 10:14 PM

There isn't any 64 bit Slackware afaik; there is only an unofficial 64 bit port (Slamd64). 32 or 64 bit shouldn't make much of a difference because the performance is similar; some applications are somewhat faster on 64 bit but most are actually slower. I'm sure some are going to jump in and question this but I have the benchmarks to show that they would be wrong.

vtel57 · 05-20-2007, 10:31 PM

Jay is correct. Slack is currently only available as a 32 bit operating system. It runs fine on 64 bit machines, though. That's what I'm using right now, as a matter of fact. Currently, there are very few advantages and quite a few disadvantages to running 64 bit. There are very few true 64 bit apps. No browser plugins will work with 64 bit browsers. Etc. Stick with 32 bit for now. That's my opinion.

Luck!

HappyTux · 05-20-2007, 10:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by davidguygc

I have no idea, I am using Slackware 11 -current

What does this show you?

Code:

>$ uname -m
x86_64

But I believe you have a different problem as well the ia64 that is mentioned in your first post is for the Itanium family of chips not the Core Duo versions, if you are running 64bit then you want the amd64/em64t variety of the driver.

slackhack · 05-20-2007, 11:06 PM

arch 64 is a true 64-bit distro. if you want 64-bit, imho you should try that. it's very fast and not noticeably slower at all than 32-bit on the same hardware. if anything, it's definitely faster. flash 9 browser plugin works with nspluginwrappers, it took about 5 minutes to install everything for that using very simple instructions in the wiki. i think at least fedora and debian have 64-bit versions, maybe also gentoo and probably others (suse), but i'm not sure all of those are native 64-bit or have some 32-bit libraries, etc. gl

davidguygc · 05-21-2007, 01:37 AM

Ok, thanks for all the input, I understand it all better now