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On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 06:00:51 -0500
Aryeh Friedman wrote:

> I have been using i386 (-STABLE) for years now and was wondering if
> switching to amd64 ... nvidia-kmod are the minimal ones I need]) the
> main reason for asking is PAE seems to be broken now 

The last I heard the nvidia driver wasn't compatible with PAE