Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:07:41 +0000 From: James Seward <jamesoff@gmail.com> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fbsd-amd64 desktop Message-ID: <720051dc0601270407h1cb71f57l933afb395bf7235e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200601271228.02675.groot@kde.org> References: <20060127020350.02abf989.kgunders@teamcool.net> <200601271228.02675.groot@kde.org>
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On 1/27/06, Adriaan de Groot <groot@kde.org> wrote: > On Friday 27 January 2006 10:03, Ken Gunderson wrote: > > I've only run fbsd-amd64 on servers. My favorite server ports all > > work great but not sure about status of desktop related stuff. For > > example, I know OpenOffice has issues. Any other gotchas I should know > > about? FreeBSD6/amd64 worked fine for me on my desktop using GNOME, firefox, and some other bits and pieces. As mentioned previously, win32-codecs doesn't work so you'll be unable to play some formats (like WMV). nvidia-driver doesn't work on amd64 either. I recently switched back to 6-RELEASE/i386 on that machine from 6-STABLE/amd64 because recent kernels (after the beginning of November) couldn't see any of my disks at boot time. I haven't tried recent i386 kernels yet because I haven't had time, and the lack of response to the problem I had on amd64 disheartened me :( (Including a PR that seemingly got ignored.) amd64 was fine and stable and stuff, but I need i386 for a couple of things that aren't available otherwise. /JMS
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