Jeroen van Aart (jer...@mompl.net on 2011-05-24 13:39 -0700): > Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > amd64 is possible. Since from amd64 you can still run x86 code ... > > but not the other way around. Is there a drawback when installing > > an amd64 kernel ? > > 32 bits is likely to play more video codecs than 64 bits, by virtue > of the w64codecs package lacking a bit. And to the best of my > knowledge just because you can run 32 bits binaries on a 64 bits > kernel doesn't mean w32codecs will actually work. I keep an older 32 > bits system around just because of that. To add to this, Windows games (and thus most Wine users) need the 32-bit OpenGL libraries to get 3D acceleration, and they are not available as a package for amd64 (yet). So yes, there are valid reasons to run 32-bit Linux even on 64-bit systems.
For myself, I run i386 on my Pentium D because 64-bit support on the earlier Intel models was actually slower than 32-bit -- but with the amd64 kernel. This works fine except it used to break dkms (it tried to compile 32-bit modules, which the 64-bit kernel won't load). Regards, Arno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110526223552.4db6c...@neminis.loos.site
