[mythtv-users] GeForce FX 5200 Nvidia drivers?

Jeremy McDermond mcdermj at xenotropic.com
Wed Aug 16 16:16:58 UTC 2006


On Aug 15, 2006, at 7:02 PM, gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman) wrote:

> H P Ladds wrote:
>> Sorry I doubted you. I double checked your advice at  
>> linuxquestions.org
>> <http://linuxquestions.org>. Sure enough I found the quote below. But
>> geez! doesn't the IA stand for Intel Architecture? "Go Figure."
>
> yah, it didn't make any sense to me, either ... especially since  
> there's
> IA32, IA64 and AMD64/EM64T all listed ... at first, i was scared i'd
> have to use the older IA64 when i switched from a 32-bit AMD to a  
> 64-bit
> AMD ... because, in my thinking, i was using IA32, so therefore i must
> switch to the IA64 drivers for 64-bit ... doesn't make sense to me,  
> but
> the AMD64/EM64T drivers work for me now, so i don't care! :P
>

AFAIK, IA64 architecture is Itanium chips which have a completely  
different instruction set than the AMD64(which Intel pretty much  
copied and released as the EM64T extensions).

> -g-
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

--
Jeremy McDermond
Xenotropic Systems
mcdermj at xenotropic.com




More information about the mythtv-users mailing list