Hi, and thanks for the great response!
I'm checking the ports now as you said. So far that list doesn't seem to
include really anything that I would be using.
The Azureus BitTorrent client I was mentioning requires Java, which is
what I think failed before. Have you gotten any Java to work on your
amd64 system?
Another thing I was planning to try was VMWare with Windows 2000,
because I have a few music production applications that just won't run
on *nix or in WINE. Do you know if the VMWare port runs on amd64? I also
saw "qemu" on your site...does that run on amd64 FreeBSD?
Also, do you recommend -RELEASE or -STABLE for the amd64? What do you
run currently?
Thanks again!
-Mark
Roland Smith wrote:
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
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