Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
There were no oopses, just total freeze, no response from either
keyboard or mouse, nothing helped but powercycle. Looked like a
deadlock to me.
There are ways to debug such hangs, but let's leave it at this,
especially since this is no longer a problem for you.
One exception: Macromedia's flashplayer does not have a 64bit version,
at least I didn't find one. I fooled the installer to recognize x86_64
as a valid architecture, and installation succeeded, but it does not
work. Any suggestions welcome. Please keep discussions of the lessons
regarding vendor lock-in, closed source, and such off this list. I
suppose that installing 32-bit versions of the various browsers will
help, but I am not willing to do it just for the pleasure of having
flash.
It's nothing particular to your configuration, but rather how all x86_64
systems work, whether Linux or Windows. You cannot load 32-bit DLL files
into a 64-bit program, so the 32-bit Flash plugin cannot load into your
64-bit Mozilla. There isn't any significant speed penalty for running a
32-bit Mozilla on your 64-bit system and it's unlikely your Mozilla will
use more than 4GB memory, so you might do what most sane people do and
keep your Mozilla / Firefox as an i386 package. Same goes for MPlayer
needing to be 32-bit to load Win32 DLLs (for codecs which ffmpeg doesn't
yet support, such as WMV3). You might notice that bi-arch x86_64 distros
such as Fedora supply 32-bit builds of such essential packages in
addition to the 64-bit ones.
It goes the other way too: If you run a 32-bit Mozilla, you'd need a
32-bit edition of the Java Runtime Engine to use Java applets. Luckily,
you can have the 32-bit edition and 64-bit editions of Sun's JRE
installed side-by-side.
One other thing that is not related directly to my system, but a
tidbit I discovered while shopping. Just something I am curious
about. The newest LCD monitors (e.g. from Samsung - SyncMaster 960BF
19'') come without any controls whatsoever - all the controls are in
software. Only Windows software is supplied. Question: does anyone
know how it is supposed to work on non-Windows (and non-Mac) systems?
The assumption apparently is that the monitor will work (for some
definition of the word) without the software - otherwise how can one
install it?
Check this out:
http://jaffar.cs.msu.su/oleg/ddcci/
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