Re: Spin Off Question (was: What kernel for AMD Sempron system?)

2011-06-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 04 iun 11, 05:46:56, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: Ron Johnson Said: The M2V has an AM2 socket, and all such chips are 64-bit capable, so both 2.6.39-1-686-pae and 2.6.39-1-amd64 *should* work. (I think you'd get a different error if the kernel was incompatible with the

Re: Spin Off Question (was: What kernel for AMD Sempron system?)

2011-06-04 Thread teddieeb
Andrei POPESCU Said: [re-wrapped to 72 characters] - Sorry about that, I send list mails from my cell phone, very small screen, not much I can do about the text length. Otherwise thank you for the reply. Just curious, are the 32bit Libraries that can be installed upon need in a 64bit

What kernel for AMD Sempron system?

2011-06-03 Thread Thomas Milne
Hello all, I just assembled a system with an M2V motherboard and Sempron processor, with Nvidia graphics card. I installed Debian Squeeze, then upgraded to unstable. Installed nvidia-glx, nvidia dkms, a new kernel and headers. The kernel that was installed with Squeeze was 2.6.32-5-686 which

Re: What kernel for AMD Sempron system?

2011-06-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/03/2011 07:11 AM, Thomas Milne wrote: Hello all, I just assembled a system with an M2V motherboard and Sempron processor, with Nvidia graphics card. I installed Debian Squeeze, then upgraded to unstable. Installed nvidia-glx, nvidia dkms, a new kernel and headers. The kernel that was

Spin Off Question (was: What kernel for AMD Sempron system?)

2011-06-03 Thread teddieeb
Ron Johnson Said: The M2V has an AM2 socket, and all such chips are 64-bit capable, so both 2.6.39-1-686-pae and 2.6.39-1-amd64 *should* work. (I think you'd get a different error if the kernel was incompatible with the CPU.) The first thing I noticed about these two Kernels was the one