amd64 support?

[the anti-genre]

I've been having to use IA32 drivers for my AMD64 box and it's killing my performance but I don't know how to compile a kernel to include AMD64 support.

Right now my computer thinks i'm on arch i686, proccessor is Athlon64 2800+ any help is appreciated.

i'm on slackware 10

[UgoDeschamps]

Sorry if the question is odd, but for what HW are you using driver,... i meen... can't you simply use 64based driver?

[the anti-genre]

Sorry if the question is odd, but for what HW are you using driver,... i meen... can't you simply use 64based driver?

I can't, because it always gives me this error for any 64-bit drivers:

ERROR: this .run file is intended for the
Linux-x86_64 platform, but you appear to be
running on Linux-x86. Aborting installation.

I got that error trying to install amd64 drivers for my nforce motherboard, and trying to install amd64 drivers for my nvidia fx 5700

[the_unforgiven]

Looks like you're running kernel compiled for x86 (IA-32)
What does "uname -a" show?

[the anti-genre]

Looks like you're running kernel compiled for x86 (IA-32)
What does "uname -a" show?

slackware% uname -a
Linux slackware 2.6.9 #9 Tue Dec 14 16:09:25 EST 2004 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux

[the_unforgiven]

Looks like you're running kernel compiled for x86 (IA-32)
What does "uname -a" show?

slackware% uname -a
Linux slackware 2.6.9 #9 Tue Dec 14 16:09:25 EST 2004 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux

Ok, my mistake :P
wrong question

What do you see in the initial screen of "dmesg | less"?
What is your CPU detected as?
And is the memory map reported with 32-bit address values?

Anyway, the fact that "uname -a" gives i686 means that it's detecting your CPU as a 32-bit CPU - maybe you're running a kernel compiled for IA32...

Try getting hold of Slackware for x86-64.
No, wait...
Does slackware come for x86-64 in the first place??
Because slackware's site says the only other port apart from IA32 is S/390

I don't know whether it is right or what !!!
I don't use slack myself :P

Check here for Slackware overview:
http://www.slackware.com/info/

[the anti-genre]

well, my harddrive died so i can't do anything

/me kicks IBM deathstar

i've heard freebsd is good for 64-bit, i've also heard that gentoo is the best linux distro for 64-bit, but i don't like the gentoo community. if i can just compile an amd64 kernel i'll stick to 32-bit slackware and just install the drivers and go on doing what i used to do.

[the_unforgiven]

well, my harddrive died so i can't do anything

/me kicks IBM deathstar

i've heard freebsd is good for 64-bit, i've also heard that gentoo is the best linux distro for 64-bit, but i don't like the gentoo community. if i can just compile an amd64 kernel i'll stick to 32-bit slackware and just install the drivers and go on doing what i used to do.

Well, you can download the kernel sources and compile them yourself for amd64 support on your slack
No-one is stopping you from doing that :P
That way, you'll get your fav. distro - slack - with support for AMD64
But, I think you'll need the gcc-x86-64 cross compiler for that, I'm not sure

Edit:
Maybe asking it in slackware forum would give you better results