12 Dec
2009
12 Dec
'09
6:42 a.m.
Peter Nelson wrote:
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 21:53 -1000, david wrote:
Because that's what I've been told by people who presumably know better
than I do. I don't run 64-bit OS of any sort, so don't know.
64-bit could be the problem. Particularly the
shortage of 64-bit device
drivers? I have nothing here running 64-bit, although the desktop
machine's Sempron could run 64-bit.
Why do you think there is a shortage of 64-bit drivers? Linux is not
Windows XP. The problem is generally with older software or closed
source software
that still uses OSS (sadly some brand new closed source software still
does this) or tries to use 'hw:0' instead of 'default'. That kind of
thing. 32- or 64-bit is not a problem at all.
Or even modern stuff like JACK where if I specify "default" it comes up
trying to use my laptop's built Intel modem as an audio output device.
Sure, there are ways around it, but specifying something like hw:2 works
easily.
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David
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