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Experiences of 64 bits operating system installs on AMD64

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Lowfat

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I desperatly want a working 64 bits OS on my comp. Here's my setup:

AMD64 3200+
ASUS A8N-SLI (non-deluxe)
1 sata and two IDE drives and a IDE dvd combo drive. OS goes on one IDE drive.
Leadtek GF6600GT

So far this is what I've tried, remember 64bits only

SUSE 9.2 (did not install at all, got a lot of errors when files where copied to HD)
Fedora Core 3 (Installed in txt mode (vesa drivers failed), mouse pointer went wierd when I installed nvidia drivers).
Ubuntu 64 bit (did not install at all)
Madrake 64 bit (Not free, haven't tried but mandrake 10.1 installs ok)
Turbolinux (trying that tonight) & Gentoo (Seems very difficult to install).
win64 RC1 Installs ok and runs fine. Had trouble installing nvidia chipsetdrivers (gave up)

Does anyone know other 64bit OS that is possible to run on my setup? The problem seems to be the nvidia graphics card, as most graphic installs fails due to it beeing wrongly detected as a vesa card with no memory. txt installs are generally ok (except suse), but all up to now have huge problems with the nvidia graphics driver.

Added: It just came to my attention that RC2 of WIN64bit is out. Have to give it a try.
 
Im dual booting XP Pro and XP Pro x64 Edition(RC2), and i installed it with no problems. In fact the nvidia drivers installed way easier in x64 compared to 32bit. I still dont have nvidia audio drivers, had to use the freakin realtek. Its been announced that x64 is coming out in April, so it doesnt suprise me that x64 is really stable.
 
Which nVidia drivers did you use? Were they the 1.0-6629 ones? Have you read this thread?

I'd still rather see them open up the ISA of some of their older cards. ATI too (they at least used to do this, sort of).
 
I don't know how to follow the instructions in the fedoraforums thread, I'm pretty sure I will be able to install the cumulative nvidia patch 🙂

Thanks for pointing me to it. Now, if I only could get suse9.2 64bit to install....
 
Hey rmrf, that info seems quite usefull! maybe I'll give it a try around easter time (very buisy at the moment)! Thanks a lot 🙂
 
Well, let's see.

First, they advise you to make sure that all xorg packages are as new as possible. Make sure you use the package manager to grab the newest version of X 6.8.1 as possible, or 6.8.2 if needed.

Then, you should patch and install the nVidia drivers.

Then, you edit the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf as root. Inside of a Section "Device," you will find a line that reads Driver "nv" or Driver "vesa"; you should change this line to read Driver "nvidia". In the Section "Module", you should have a line that reads Load "glx"; you should remove any line that reads Load "GLcore" or Load "dri". Save the file.

Restart the X server. Logging in and out may do this for you, but Ctrl-Alt-Backspace should definitely work.
 
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