| <insert 64-bit frustration> |
by romandas |
2007-07-03 14:07:32 |
Knowing that 64-bit hardware has been out for a bit, and also discovering (perhaps silly of me) that my desktop processor actually is a 64-bit one, even though I've been running 32-bit XP and 32-bit Gentoo Linux on it.. I decided to make the switch to 64-bit over the weekend.
Everything seemed to go smoothly. Used the same partitioning scheme, so once I recompiled Firefox, OO.o, and Thunderbird.. and they all came up peachy. Until I tried to do anything flash-related. Or sound-related. Or video-related.
I think I got the video thing figured out (well, I just switched from using gxine to vlc) though no win64codecs? Carp.
No Adobe flash player release for 64 bit? And who knows what the sound issue is yet.
Feh. I know there's a certain level of pain one accepts for using Linux, more so with Gentoo than with others.. and this probably isn't even much, but d4 it's annoying. And who knows what else I tend to use that hasn't made the switch yet.
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Look into | by sgrunt | 2007-07-03 14:11:45 |
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Seems a bit choppy with DTD | by romandas | 2007-07-03 14:12:34 |
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Don't tempt me. >_< | by sgrunt | 2007-07-03 14:13:23 |
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Not trying to tempt.. just trying to see where the | by romandas | 2007-07-03 14:20:42 |
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A while back, the stable amd64 install of gentoo | by sazzer | 2007-07-03 14:29:01 |
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Meh. ~ all the way:) (n/t) | by sgrunt | 2007-07-03 14:59:11 |
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It occurs to me that this | by sgrunt | 2007-07-03 15:00:29 |
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what is the expected performance gain? | by cokish | 2007-07-03 15:02:50 |
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<shrugs> Good question ;) (n/t) | by romandas | 2007-07-03 15:06:46 |
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The performance gain *should* be 100% right? | by cokish | 2007-07-03 15:18:47 |
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Depends on what you're doing. | by Arachnid | 2007-07-03 15:34:00 |
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Performance gain could be negative, depending on | by raptor_87 | 2007-07-03 19:34:39 |
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Math with the console mouse? Oh, GMP. :-P (n/t) | by bwkaz | 2007-07-03 20:36:00 |
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Doesn't give me any problems | by hobbs | 2007-07-03 15:54:05 |
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*hangs head* the sound issue was a layer 8 problem | by romandas | 2007-07-03 16:28:13 |
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Romadas I have a special user | by joecrouse | 2007-07-03 17:53:44 |
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Well.. I am finding more works than I realized | by romandas | 2007-07-03 18:27:41 |
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I've got a 64MB "aperture" eating that much RAM; | by bwkaz | 2007-07-03 20:48:02 |
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Er, "that much" = "64MB". (n/t) | by bwkaz | 2007-07-03 20:48:19 |
