On Fri, 11 May 2007 16:27:09 -0400 "Curt Howland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi. I have a new machine that I'm setting for my mother, a HP Pavilion > 6305. AMD Turion-64x2, which seems to be very nice. > > I only ran Vista long enough to make a restore DVD, and even that one > exercise ran smack-dab into Vista's "Deny, Permit?" insanity. Just one > command, and already I loath Vista. > > So first I installed Etch i386 because I didn't have an AMD64 install > disk, and things worked acceptably well. The broadcom wireless card > wouldn't work, nor the Nvidia kernel module. But "nv" driver works, so > I'm ok with that. > > I pulled down the AMD64 DVD#1, and installed from that. As before, the > install went without surprises, except that the Nvidia card and > display were _not_ detected by name and type as they were in the i386 > install. I had to set the "nv" driver by hand. > > The Broadcom wireless card again does not work, and neither does the > Nvidia kernel driver, even though it specifically lists the GeForce Go > 6150 as supported hardware. Oh well. > > I've ordered an Intel replacement for the Broadcom card, I'll know in > 3 days or so if that makes any difference. Wireless is, sad to say, > _important_. If the Intel card fails also, I saw an Atheros based mini > PCI-E card for sale, and my present machine uses an Atheros based > mini-PCI card. > > What finally inspired me to write this note was that Google Earth > failed to install. > > --------------- > Verifying archive integrity... All good. > Uncompressing Google Earth for GNU/Linux > 4.1.7076.4458.......................................................................... > setup.data/bin/Linux/amd64/setup.gtk2: error while loading shared > libraries: libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file > or directory > setup.data/bin/Linux/amd64/setup.gtk: error while loading shared > libraries: libSM.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or > directory > The setup program seems to have failed on amd64 > --------------- > > The system is fast enough with the i386 binaries that I don't mind > going back to that if Google Earth won't work under AMD64. Because > this machine is not going to be used for compiling, or anything else > really intensive, I don't think there is going to be any perceptable > performance hit from doing so. > > I would appreciate a discussion with someone who has used the AMD64 > install, to see if there are things that I should know that I don't. > > A big hats-off to the AMD64 team. I'm pleased that my expectations of > seamlessness, after trying both i386 and SPARC Debian, have been more > than met. > > Curt- > > The Intel wireless card should work fine if it's the 2200 or 3945 model. I personally use the 3945 model under AMD64 Debian. In order to use the Intel wireless and Nvidia non-free drivers you'll need to add the non-free sections in apt. There are Debian instructions for using the Nvidia drivers as well. I got them working under my old desktop so they should work for you. The problems with Google earth are probably (I'm guessing) due to you not having a working OpenGL environment. The free nv driver if I recall correctly does not have 3d acceleration support. Ananda -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
