From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 6 13:13:07 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ED4F16A469 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 13:13:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23DBC13C448 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 13:13:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id u2so490039uge for ; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 06:13:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:received:x-authentication-warning:date:from:to:subject:message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=q/GdiRmHoDmXa0jTqe78gdr2SQPX4uW6qnUjQXXJu7fZ2rHvpvyn0tr/MgQphE4JOyHIFKmg3zvi6D/6v4KH/m5qNHqKq3xCuV9yoVRNF9JN9nKhNWMby3bdGsebwyoJcidVJ+IQHojnK07Qhn1YvODbhDONSk/MsAVqEktqnrQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:x-authentication-warning:date:from:to:subject:message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=M7Ogz+zAMl+/LDeVnM3wSERn0Pqd1NOKw9uAlGXGtd0GxmRgHukqKfaFCspWy4lZnikn6e2z2GwKFzDmrSL4LP5ZMOCWGPXZ68FGi+ARtTEhtufgKohmZP83Loopr7ouKwWyz8mMqo0pM3WzM0MTUwpasYTzk4en/IqIbSp3LuY= Received: by 10.66.216.14 with SMTP id o14mr1238836ugg.1181135583787; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 06:13:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from darklight.abyss ( [194.186.18.2]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id k1sm1198806ugf.2007.06.06.06.13.01 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 06 Jun 2007 06:13:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from darklight.abyss (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by darklight.abyss (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l56DCj12068739 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 17:12:46 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) Received: (from yuri@localhost) by darklight.abyss (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l56DCeva068734 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 17:12:40 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) X-Authentication-Warning: darklight.abyss: yuri set sender to yuri.pankov@gmail.com using -f Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 17:12:35 +0400 From: Yuri Pankov To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070606131235.GA1014@darklight.abyss> References: <86ps49l5pc.fsf@dwp.des.no> <18022.43800.708483.739950@jerusalem.litteratus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <18022.43800.708483.739950@jerusalem.litteratus.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Subject: Re: Intel C2D COREs not used equally in FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:13:07 -0000 On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 08:39:52AM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: > > Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav writes: > > > > In practice there's (almost) only one reason not to run > > > FreeBSD/amd64 on amd64-capable hardware: If you depend > > > on a certain piece of software which is known not to run > > > correctly in 64bit mode. Fortunately those are not many. > > > > The only one I can think of (for a desktop) is the Flash plugin. > > The last time I looked - a couple of months ago - I believe > mplayer was also not yet there. > > > Robert Huff Just for the record: I've linux-flashplugin7 with native Firefox working almost flawlessly (at least for my uses). Same with mplayer - I'm using amd64 for about 2 years now, and all this time mplayer was my choice (working choice :)) for video/audio. Nvidia binary drivers are the only thing, which I'm missing - can't get my dual-head Nvidia card to work with Xinerama. Yuri