On 12/7/05, Milton Yates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le mercredi 07 décembre 2005 à 11:46 -0500, Nuitari a écrit : > > > 1) If I build and boot a 32-bit version of Gentoo it is my > > > understanding that the AMD64 will be completely 32-bit compatible and > > > that I can run whatever any other IA-32 machine can run. Is this > > > correct? > > > > Yes > > > > > 2) If I build a 32-bit install is there anyway to run this 32-bit > > > environment within the 64-bit environment? I assume not. > > > > Yes, using a chroot > > You don't need a the whole chroot thing if you only want flash and java > working in your firefox.
As my title said, I need flash, java and mplayer. One problem I see with your suggestion is that I need to play wmv files from web links and the win32codecs flag for mplayer is masked out on my box. Until I set this positive in my chroot'ed environment all I got was audio. With it turned on I get video also. If this cannot be turned on in the 64-bit world then the 64-bit world wouldn't work for me. > In this case: > * use firefox-bin (a 32bit firefox binary provided by portage) > * the (usual) 32 bit flash plugin > * a _32 bit_ libjavaplugin_oji.so : the java plugin file, you could copy > one from your other gentoo 32 bit system. I don't know if this is just > luck, but I only have dev-java/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.02 which is compiled > in 64 bit and it does work! > > mplayerplug-in does not want to work for now as far as I have tested > (that is, not so much). Seems to be working for me in both the 32-bit and 64-bit worlds. The one problem I am having is that in all my environments mplayer is quitting early. (I.e. - not playing the complete file. Bummer! > > Hope that helps. > I think building and maintaining a whole 32bit chroot is really > annoying, and after all you can run most 32bits apps out of a chroot > with the provided emul packages. Yeah, I agree, but if I must I must! Thanks, Mark -- [email protected] mailing list
