On 1/20/06, Martin Glazer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > If going the 64 bit route, will I experience any compatibility issues with > software applications? > Do the applications have to be written / modified to run under 64 bit mode? > I have an AMD 3000+. When I first set it up, I set up Gentoo 64 bit. Then I found out Firefox had some 64 bit issues. And MPlayer (or at least some codecs) just don't work in a 64 bit environment, so you had to set up a special chroot instance of Gentoo to get the libraries right and get that to work. So I chickened out and did a 32 bit install, and it runs just great.
That was last year, so maybe things have changed since then on the Firefox front. I doubt the codec thing can be fixed since it centered around closed-source codecs that MPlayer really has no control over. YMMV. Ian _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
