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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit
From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:
<SNIP>
> This is all on an amd64 system. I don't know what it's like in 32-bit
> x86 on Gentoo, as I've never run that form of Gentoo; I let multilib
> handle things there.
>
> --
> :wq
>

Correct me if I'm wrong please but as I remember it everyone running
64-bit is running multi-lib unless they specifically choose a
no-multilib profile, correct?

Anyway, I suspect our systems are reasonably similar in terms of
capability, and for clarity, the only 64-bit machine I have any
troubles on, which are Flash & OpenGL/KDE, is my compute server that
runs VMs all day, and those problems only started when I added a
second Nvidia card. With a single card & 2 monitors everything was
fine. With 2 cards, both Nvidia but different models, and 3 monitors,
Flash in Firefox fails all the time, (But not Flash in Chrome where
it's built in) and some of the nice OpenGL features of KDE simply
don't operate any more.

If I had lots of money I'd look into an Nvidia card that supports 4
outputs but for now I'm stuck with what I've got!

- Mark