I know you've answered this question a million times, and I've searched... but theres still one thing I don't understand. How do you determine which driver you need? I did cat /proc/cpuinfo and got:

processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 11
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 866MHz
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 863.800
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse
bogomips : 1723.59


Am I missing something?
I have a GeFOrce 2 go... which has a 32 mb memory. So do I use the 32 bit driver, or is that something else?

No, you use the nVidia 32 bit driver because your cpu is a 32 bit cpu.

hm... do you just know from the model of CPU, or does it say somewhere in there?

drivers are CPU dependent in terms of bits (you don't run IA64 drivers on a pentium 3, dude -_-; )

Use IA32 driver as your CPU is a 32 bit CPU. The driver can be found here:
http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/L...6-1.0-4363.run
I wish every hardware manufacturer to provide such good support.
(read this before: http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=li..._ia32_1.0-4363)

To answer directly to your question .. if you've got anything from i386 up to a P4 (including AMD Athlon/Duron) you have an IA32 CPU. Intel Itanium is a IA64 CPU but is targeting the high-end server market at the moment. -end o'story-

I can tell from the model name.

If you don't know go to Intel's site and download technical specs about the processor.

I can't believe people don't know their processors.