From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FCMYh-00002q-16 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 19:55:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1NJsPPn004215; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 19:54:25 GMT Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1NJoVlB018643 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 19:50:31 GMT Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id D376F1F488C for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:50:30 +0100 (CET) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 875441F4544 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:50:28 +0100 (CET) Received: from energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de ([139.174.241.94] verified) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.6) with ESMTP id 11468252 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:50:28 +0100 From: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] amd64/x86 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:50:27 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <403.1140687764@www045.gmx.net> <97c95c3d0602230454l1c8712a7r@mail.gmail.com> <200602231224.02877.danstemporaryaccount@yahoo.ca> In-Reply-To: <200602231224.02877.danstemporaryaccount@yahoo.ca> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602232050.28035.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V4.7 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 813cafc0-98ff-4fd8-9b56-5651c689e145 X-Archives-Hash: 5cbfe6f0275989f6ec61d0390231533b On Thursday 23 February 2006 18:24, daniel wrote: > On Thursday 23 February 2006 07:54, Boris Fersing wrote: > > 2006/2/23, jarry@gmx.net : > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm going to install Gentoo on Athlon64-based workstation, > > > but I'm a little confused about hardware profiles and their > > > compatibility: > > > > > > If I select now amd64, will I be able later to install and > > > use x86 software, if there is no amd64 release (for example > > > precompiled game-binaries, or even some sources which are > > > only for x86, not amd64)? > > > > > > Or do I have to use x86 installation profile? > > > > Hi, > > > > just use the amd64 default profile (the mutilib one), then you'll be > > able to run 32bits softwares too ! > > Not entirely true. When I first got my amd64 box, I did just that and was > horribly disappointed. While most things worked, there were a number of > "show stoppers" so to speak: Konqueror couldn't play flash movies because > while Konqueror compiled just fine as 64-bit, flash is only available in > 32bit. If I wanted to see Flash, I had to use a binary version of Firefox. or opera. So all you have to do is to copy the url and open it in one of the 32bit browser, which are working fine. So your statement is not completly correct. Konqueror does not use 32bit plugins, that is true. > Worse though was the fact that none of the win32codecs were available so I > couldn't watch any wmv, wma or other binary-only formats. yes you can. Install mplayer-bin. I prefer xine, but for the occasional wmv, mplayer-bin is enough. > > Sadly, if you want to be able to use stuff typically used for the Windows > world, you have to conform to that world's handicapps, which means making > do with 32bits for now. no, you don't have to. You just have to install two (!!) 32 bit apps. Opera for flash, mplayer-bin for win32codecs. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list