On Tuesday 03 May 2005 01:12 pm, Carlton C. Stedman II wrote:
I'm not worried about my video card drivers, since NVIDIA has great amd64 support, at least, so I'm told.
ive always used `emerge nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx` to take care of my nvidia card on my x86 and amd64 machines ... then just put 'nvidia' into /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6
My main concern is that I need to install some 32-bit emulation libraries and kernel modules, so I've read, to compile 32-bit apps, and that some compiled 32-bit apps will only work under a 32-bit environment, requiring me to setup a seperate environment to chroot into. I'm running gentoo
i'm not really up-to-speed with how fedora/redhat/suse/debian/etc... are handling the multilib issue, but i can speak for Gentoo ... since it sounds like you're doing a new install, grab a 2005.0 amd64 install and the rest should be pretty seamless ... with the 2005.0 release, amd64 supports multilib by default (you can turn it off if you wish to have a pure 64bit env) the default glibc/gcc will install 32bit and 64bit compilers / libraries ... just make sure you turn on 32bit emulation support in your kernel, and then when you go to run a 32bit app, most will 'just work' ... of course it depends on *what* you're trying to do as to how easy it'll be if you wish to compile your own 32bit code, just add '-m32' to the build process: gcc -m32 -c test.c -o test32bit -mike