On Thursday 31 January 2008, Rob Andrews wrote: > On 31-Jan-2008 10:20.51 (GMT), Hans Vogelsberger wrote: > > Well, I never tried chroot. But Opera and - because of Sun Java plugins > > - Iceweasel and Openoffice still run on my old (and much too loud) > > 32-bit intel 686 computer instead of the newer Amd 64 one. >
You can install the 32bit opera on amd64 using --force-architecture and some alterations of the startup script. It works (somewhat) with flash and java. There's also a beta amd64 .deb of 9.50b, which I'm planning on trying tomorrow. -Chris > The Java plugin is an interesting one. I don't see why the Java NPAPI > plugin hasn't been ported to 64-bit systems. > > Konqueror uses a Java "hack" as far as I am aware, calling the java > executable direcly and embedding it directly into an X region on the > display. I wonder how hard it would be to hack a wrapper plugin to do that > natively. > > -- > rob andrews :: pgp 0x5c205974 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Christopher Judd, Ph. D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential or sensitive information which is, or may be, legally privileged or otherwise protected by law from further disclosure. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, please do not distribute, copy or use it or any attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this from your system. Thank you for your cooperation. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]