Re: Questions bfore installing amd64

[Gobbledegeek <gobbledegeek%gmail.com@localhost>]

Its Ubuntu for me then. I will still be running netbsd 32bit on 7 VMs
within Ubuntu. So that doesn't make me a defector :)

Cheers

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Thomas E. Spanjaard 
<tgen%deepbone.net@localhost> wrote:
> Gobbledegeek wrote:
>> Any comments on the ATI fglrx drivers?
>
> Fat chance. That's closed-source Lunox stuff. You might have some
> success with radeonhd(4) or radeon(4) (in pkgsrc,
> x11/xf86-video-radeonhd and x11/xf86-video-ati respectively). DRI
> supposedly works on r5xx boards (which includes the rs6xx), but on amd64
> that requires an X.org 1.5+ xserver, and git HEAD dri and Mesa, afaik. I
> haven't tried yet. Xvideo support also requires DRM/DRI on r5xx boards
> since they don't support 2D texturing anymore like the r4xx and older
> series, apparently.
>
> As for running 32-bit Linux binaries, at least Sun J2SE 6.0 works here,
> as does a wrapped libflashplayer.so, although the latter not all the time.
>
> Cheers,
> --
>        Thomas E. Spanjaard
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>



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