On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 12:11:30PM -0500, Mark Kane wrote: > 1) I have an AMD64 3000+ processor. I've been reading some things around > the Internet about ports and other software not compiling properly with > the amd64 version of FreeBSD. Most of the things I've read about this > have been from 2004 or even late 2003, so I'm wondering how things have > progressed since then. Are there still many ports or software that don't > compile properly? Is there a list somewhere of known ports not to work > on the amd64 version?
You could check the ports marked BROKEN for a connection to amd64: cd /usr/ports find . -name Makefile |xargs grep 'BROKEN.*amd64' > Here is a short list of main things I will use this PC for: > IRC (X-Chat, maybe irssi) X-chat works fine on my amd64 box. > Web Browsing (Mozilla Firefox) Firefox works. > Media playing (XMMS/VLC/mplayer) Mplayer & xmms work, don't know about VLC. > Email (Mozilla Thunderbird) > Audio Streaming/Recording (streamTranscoder, streamripper, sc_trans maybe) > BitTorrent (Azureus) Haven't tried these. > Audio/Video Encoding (lame, oggenc, various video encoding tools) lame and oggenc work. > Basically I'm wondering opinions on either the i386 or amd64 version of > FreeBSD for my hardware for FreeBSD 5.4. Which works better? For what > reasons? Are there any other caveats? I've never had problems with my MSI NEO FSR mobo with K8T800 chipset (MS-6702), from 5.3-RELEASE to 5.4-STABLE. > 2) Will my hardware work properly with the amd64 version? I see my > motherboard (Giga-Byte GA-K8NS Pro) is listed as "Functional" on the > FreeBSD amd64 motherboard page > (http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html). Some parts of NForce chipsets don't seem to work very well. See the mailing list archives. > My other hardware includes: > > Sound Blaster Augidy 2 Platinum Should work with the 'snd_emu10k1' kernel driver. > GeForce FX5600 (MSI) Should work with the standard 'nv' driver from Xorg. No accellerated 3D, though. > TDK VeloCD 40x12x48 CD Burner > Sony DRU500A DVD Burner ATAPI drives should work fine. > 3) I know of a couple applications that don't build on the amd64 such as > linux-firefox and Azureus. Does anyone have any info on when there might > be versions compatible with the amd64, Basically, when someone is interested enough to fix the breakage. > or if there is any other software > like them that would work with the amd64 version (main concern is flash > on websites)? There is a open source flash plugin. See gplflash.sf.net It's in ports as libflash-0.4.13 and flashplugin-mozilla-0.4.13. Roland -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt
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