Considering Killing 64-bit

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SatanSkin

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• Jul 7, 2005

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Well, I've been using 64-bit Gentoo for quite a while now and have loved it for the most part. But, I'm thinking of going back to just plain 32-bit Gentoo for now. The 64-bit versions of linux don't support flash, certain media codecs, firefox media player integration, etc. Things like that I need especially for trying to get my g/f switched over to my linux box so I can turn hers into a server! wo0t! Oh well. Just wanted to ramble.

 

MRD

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A 64 bit system should be fine running 32 bit binaries I think. I think you can just change a few settings in make.conf and emerge 32 bit stuff when 64 bit is unavailable.

 

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Oh yeah? My main issues are getting the firefox/flash working, firefox/any embeded media working (tried mplayerplug-in both 32-bit binary and 64-bit but neither worked), getting 32-bit codecs working (mplayer32-bit binary doesn't work that well), and a few others that I can't remember.

If you could provide some more info on getting any of the above or what you mentioned working well, please feel free to post it. I'd love to stay with 64-bit if i can get this crap working. Thanks man.

 

MRD

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This sounds like the kind of thing Kaltag would know more about. =p

 

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• Jul 9, 2005

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http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_AMD_64

 

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Toasted: been there, tried all that. no luck.

 

Dell_Axim

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• Jul 11, 2005

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You can get flash to work with x86-64 if you edit the installer file. Open the installer in vi and put a # to comment out line 253.
e.g "exit_cpu $TEMPARCH" to " # exit_cpu $TEMPARCH"

 

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• Jul 12, 2005

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which installer? The binary flash installer from Macromedia? The one from the ebuild? Please be a little more specific. Thank you.

 

WingsofGOD

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• Jul 12, 2005

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Java and Flash, actually all plugins work fine when using "Opera" as a web browser... I gave up after a couple of months trying to get them to work with firefox.