getting online and ramblings

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Keith Antoine
<kantoine at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> Many thanks to all in the list for the very informative answers to my
> virtualisation question and also re the serial card and modem
>  that 10.3 openSUSE was not seeing. To make it easier on myself I waited
> till this weekend and downloaded openSUSE 11.0 beta1.
>  installed it kernel (2.6.25) and now I am back on the net with linux.
> Seeing that it is the first beta there is only one apparent, at the moment,
> fix needed
>  with my rig and thats the Nvidia 8600 GT card software: I did download what
> appeared to be suitable drivers i.e. Linux 64 but
>  they had to be run with sh. That fine but got an error saying the they were
> only suitable for x86 systems and mine was not recognised !!!
>  They were supposedly AMD 64 drivers but mine is intel 64 quad, afaik thats
> still x86 ? could not see anything else so assume a bug in
>  the beta.

You're confusing x86_64 with i686.  If you installed a 64bit Linux
distro, then you need a 64bit NVIDIA driver.  The CPU that you're
using is irrelevant.

>
>  Next job is to install VMware do I need workstation or that GSX server,
> comments please: did see and download that vmware converter.

You want workstation.


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