25 Nov
2005
25 Nov
'05
3:27 p.m.
I'm a Gentoo AMD64 user and am running a pure
64-bit setup. The
audio part of it works pretty well for me, but there are a number of
limitations in the overall/non-audio system. Much web based multimedia
doesn't work at all.
disagree. the only thing that doesnt work is silly flash animation sites, and annoying
flash banners, and a few sites that are lame enough to use flash for the navigation. no
big loss. the latest mplayerplug-in even has support for google video, and quicktime, and
windows media, providing the codec is implemented via ffmpeg or such - it usually is. its
nice to reclaim that diskspace and kernel compile time that was just so i could see silly
flash ads i didnt even want to see
For browsing I'm using a binary 32-bit version of
version of Firefox, along with all the emulation libraries so that I
can use plugins that work.
There aren't too many limitations on the use of non-multimedia
application code in portage. The trick seems to be deciding when to
use ~x86 and ~amd64. That's a bit of a frustration but not a major
hinderance.
you should use amd64 ~amd64 and manually ekeyword/emerge --digest or ACCEPT_KEYWORDS if
its missing, most stuff that hasnt been marked yet works fine
the biggest problem ive had is jack crashes a lot when compiled with gcc4. recompiling
jack and alsa-lib and the kernel driver etc iwth 3.44 brings back stability, which is
rather odd, but whatever.. and PD doesnt work, and Chuck runs and segfaults, SC won't
compile, but every other audio app works great
fast. For instance xfst will not compile for me right
now, nor for the
last 2-3 weeks.
it compiles with -m32 on a multilib system after a few tweaks with the makefile. but
running a 32bit jackd and a64 bit jackd and connecting them via UDP is kind of silly. i
guess plug:jack via alsalib might work too, but i didnt try that before deleting multilib
:)