Please see in line responses On August 31, 2006 18:32, ET wrote: > just now getting into this ,,, I been running a 64 bit version of mandy > since about 10.0, all have run just fine for my use, but never > 'flawlessly' just considerably better than 64bit M$ products I can buy... > I have tried suse64, and various 64 bit other Linux distros up the yang, > I just happen to find, (and partially because I know it from the 32 bit > versions), Mandy just works fine for me, 64 bit and all. > Now if I had to guess, I would guess Phil adds some PLF sources or SoS, > so to get the updated xorg version or accel 3D, and that is where he > finds 32 bit programs added to his box as soon as he installs....
Nope. I just ran the install and then went for the updates. I only used the plf just to watch movies on my laptop > > AND > > if just using a different distro was not an option, (and hell, use what > works for you, I always say) he might have been able to use the > "upgrade" option from his cd/dvd that he is installing Mandriva with, > just let it run, and see if it did not fix up his urpmi database to a 64 > bit version all the way, if that is what he desires. Maybe but I didn't try. I would have thought a clean install would have been just that--clean > 64 bit hardware accel drivers,,, _not_ been really really good for > me,,, but then I don't reallllly NEED to game... > > BTW, was there some problem in the OP that using a mixed 32/64 bit > environment caused, other than upgrading automagically? I have no idea why it mixed 32/64 bit versions of packages. I just downloaded the 64 bit torrent from the club page, burned it and then walked it to the other box, threw it in the drive and installed. AFAIK if it was advertised as 64 bit then it should have been. Obviously not. Who knows why? Poor iso design maybe? Bad quality control? Asleep at the switch. I just don't know. What I do know is that I run Mandriva almost exclusively on all my other boxes (32 bit) with little or no problems. If Mandriva can polish up the 64 bit distro as well as the 32 bit distro is polished, then we'll have a well rounded product. I'm just disappointed in Mandriva for, in my opinion, not keeping up the quality standards that I have come to know from 7.2 on and now have been expecting from each release. Phil ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
