Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:53:27 +0200 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@uni-mainz.de> To: Andrew Reilly <andrew-freebsd@areilly.bpc-users.org> Cc: amd64@freebsd.org, "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de> Subject: Re: openoffice support and other ports Message-ID: <44A10017.5030007@uni-mainz.de> In-Reply-To: <20060626233814.GC92989@duncan.reilly.home> References: <1151350344.40202.10.camel@triton.mcneil.com> <44A0380A.1000902@mail.uni-mainz.de> <20060626233814.GC92989@duncan.reilly.home>
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Andrew Reilly wrote: > On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 09:39:54PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: >> Are they really AMD64 ports or do they still need some ia32-compat-tweaks? >> I wonder if JAVA is now fully 64Bit. > > Fully 64-bit here. Remember that AMD64 is now just about Sun's > primary Java platform, so you would expect it to be fairly well > tweaked. > > The only gotchas for happy-happy amd64 desktop is lack of Nvidia > graphics card drivers and lack of vm86-mode so that green.ko can > use VESA BIOS calls to use DPMI to switch my monitor off. These > may come, eventually, but for now I'm happy with un-accellerated > VESA graphics (even xorg's nv driver was giving me problems) and > learning to reach over and switch the monitor off manually... > > Cheers, > Well, I see, I was in some 'somnium' and it seems I missed some developments. Well, this sounds really good!
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