From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 27 12:07:49 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C5E316A420 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:07:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jamesoff@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F024F43D58 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:07:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jamesoff@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 9so612326nzo for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 04:07:42 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Cm3rGS7f0gaBabUvOxmk1yLuusm9I2+K07E1ZetCrV85iMMooMTBCBvH3F5FF7VB6+DJnYI+BOQlBESPqZf1yHZlCZX4vMM6E1Kf1FGEVv7RhOFBTjYJNEUWxiKtwDhmNh1s+oIINWKxcZJj8GrZ5QFpaECNg63qjD4K2mnojYY= Received: by 10.36.81.11 with SMTP id e11mr2359972nzb; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 04:07:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.36.109.17 with HTTP; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 04:07:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <720051dc0601270407h1cb71f57l933afb395bf7235e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:07:41 +0000 From: James Seward To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200601271228.02675.groot@kde.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060127020350.02abf989.kgunders@teamcool.net> <200601271228.02675.groot@kde.org> Subject: Re: fbsd-amd64 desktop X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:07:49 -0000 On 1/27/06, Adriaan de Groot 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