[gentoo-amd64] Re: AMD browsing and multimedia

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

"Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com> posted
5bdc1c8b0612221103r68621369h7bc2cb19da0e246a@mail.gmail.com, excerpted
below, on  Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:03:36 -0800:

> Is it possible to make all 3 of these technologies work in a single
> browser on AMD64?
> 
> 1) Java
> 2) Flash
> 3) 32-bit streaming media?
> 
>    It seems that if I run firefox-bin I get most Flash and streaming
> media, or at least as much as I think I need. However I definitely do
> not get Java.
> 
>    It seems that if I run firefox compiled for 64-bit then Flash
> doesn't work and I don't think all Java does either, or at least on my
> system.

Assuming you are willing to run unfree binaries as it seems you are (I'm
not), you need 32-bit firefox, which as you said then allows you to load
32-bit flash and etc.  

The problem you had with Java is likely because you have a 64-bit Java
installed.  You'll need a 32-bit Java installed. Again, while Sun as
announced the GPLing of Java, to my knowledge it's not yet available as
free software so I won't run it (I've honestly not had reason to try kaffe
and the like), so I can't help you with the details, but it's possible
there's a 32-bit binary version of it you can merge. 

The other problem with Java I've seen mentioned is that it sometimes can't
find the appropriate bitness version, so you have to point it at the
correct location.  That is said to work, but again, I don't have the
details, so you'll need to get them from others.

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