On 1/8/06, John Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 08 January 2006 13:18, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 13:04 -0800, Bob Sanders wrote: > > > On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 08:50:31 -0800 > > > Bob Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > One other thing - if you're using a 64-bit machine, you'll need > > > to run - mplayer-bin test.mpg to see the default capture. The > > > format isn't recognized in the 64-bit version of mplayer because the > > > codecs are 32-bit. > > > > > > Bob > > > - > > > > I don't think I'm running a 64-bit machine. How do I know? > Then you probably aren't. > > x86 is 32 bit. amd64 is 64 bit.
Except that many people run a 32-bit OS on their AMD64s so it really depends on what kernel he's running. uname -a and looking for the processor type would be a better indication: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ uname -a Linux lightning 2.6.15-rt2 #2 PREEMPT Thu Jan 5 16:13:25 PST 2006 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ So this is a 64-bit kernel running on a 64-bit processor. However I have a chroot'ed 32-bit environment on the same machine: lightning ~ # uname -a Linux lightning 2.6.15-rt2 #2 PREEMPT Thu Jan 5 16:13:25 PST 2006 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux lightning ~ # The 32-bit area runs Java, Flash, win32codecs, etc., successfully. The 64-bit does not. CREDITS: Many thinks to Billy Holmes and others on the gentoo-AMD64 list for helping me with this. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
