Re: newbie amd64 force 32bit nvidia-driver port
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 10:49:16AM -0400, B. Cook wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm trying out amd64 on this Dell M90, and it seems to be going great.. > > *except* the nvidia-drivers port won't compile on amd64.. so I took out > the i386 entry in the Makefile and it gets to a part where its linking > and gets this: > > ===> Building for nvidia-driver-1.0.9746 > ===> src (all) > ld -d -warn-common -r -d -o nvidia.ko nv-kernel.o nvidia_ctl.o > nvidia_dev.o nvidia_linux.o nvidia_os.o nvidia_os_pci.o > nvidia_os_registry.o nvidia_pci.o nvidia_subr.o nvidia_sysctl.o nvidia_i2c.o > ld: Relocatable linking with relocations from format elf32-i386-freebsd > (nv-kernel.o) to format elf64-x86-64 (nvidia.ko) is not supported > *** Error code 1 > > > so how do I get the nvidia driver to work on this shiny new M90.. If I > can't get this to work.. the person I got the laptop from will be > putting rhel 5 on it.. :( > > I was thinking that I could force compile it for 32bit.. > > Is that even possible? Didn't I answer this the other day? No it is not. Kris pgpTWxIPAb2FP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: newbie amd64 force 32bit nvidia-driver port
B. Cook wrote: Hello all, I'm trying out amd64 on this Dell M90, and it seems to be going great.. *except* the nvidia-drivers port won't compile on amd64.. so I took out the i386 entry in the Makefile and it gets to a part where its linking and gets this: ===> Building for nvidia-driver-1.0.9746 ===> src (all) ld -d -warn-common -r -d -o nvidia.ko nv-kernel.o nvidia_ctl.o nvidia_dev.o nvidia_linux.o nvidia_os.o nvidia_os_pci.o nvidia_os_registry.o nvidia_pci.o nvidia_subr.o nvidia_sysctl.o nvidia_i2c.o ld: Relocatable linking with relocations from format elf32-i386-freebsd (nv-kernel.o) to format elf64-x86-64 (nvidia.ko) is not supported *** Error code 1 so how do I get the nvidia driver to work on this shiny new M90.. If I can't get this to work.. the person I got the laptop from will be putting rhel 5 on it.. :( I was thinking that I could force compile it for 32bit.. I believe what you are trying to do is impossible. The nvidia driver does not work on amd64 arch of FreeBSD. There are many threads on the topic which google will find for you. The question really is, why are you installing the 64-bit version of FreeBSD? If this is a "desktop" laptop with less that 4Gb of RAM which isn't going to run some huge database, then by all accounts the gain from running amd64 rather than i386 is minimal. In addition to nvidia, I believe java won't work either (or didn't last time I checked). i386 works just fine on 64-bit athlons. This message is typed from one (not a laptop and thankfully not a Dell :-)). You could try the nv driver from xorg, which, if it works (and it didn't for me) will provide enough functionality to run X. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
newbie amd64 force 32bit nvidia-driver port
Hello all, I'm trying out amd64 on this Dell M90, and it seems to be going great.. *except* the nvidia-drivers port won't compile on amd64.. so I took out the i386 entry in the Makefile and it gets to a part where its linking and gets this: ===> Building for nvidia-driver-1.0.9746 ===> src (all) ld -d -warn-common -r -d -o nvidia.ko nv-kernel.o nvidia_ctl.o nvidia_dev.o nvidia_linux.o nvidia_os.o nvidia_os_pci.o nvidia_os_registry.o nvidia_pci.o nvidia_subr.o nvidia_sysctl.o nvidia_i2c.o ld: Relocatable linking with relocations from format elf32-i386-freebsd (nv-kernel.o) to format elf64-x86-64 (nvidia.ko) is not supported *** Error code 1 so how do I get the nvidia driver to work on this shiny new M90.. If I can't get this to work.. the person I got the laptop from will be putting rhel 5 on it.. :( I was thinking that I could force compile it for 32bit.. Is that even possible? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
