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Old 01-13-2004, 02:14 PM   #1
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OK. REAL Noob question now.


When I was researching which distro to use I remember finding something that tells you what type of drivers you need for you chip type....but I cant find the document anymore......For instance I am running a Athlon XP 2800+ which is a 32bit processor, which nvidia driver set do I get I32, I64, AMD 64 ???? Could someone point me to the resource that explains this or give me a brief explanation here......Thanks
 
Old 01-13-2004, 02:30 PM   #2
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For Nvidia specifically you will want the I32 drivers. During install all of the OTHER drivers (i.e. chipset/network/framebuffer) should be supported using the bare.i kernel (or the scsi kernel if you have a scsi drive or CDROM).

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